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August 20, 2009
Assert Ownership Over Your Online Identity with PeoplePond Profile
One of the new exhibitors at SES San Jose 2009 was PeoplePond. The company offers a unique Internet service that provides personal brand visibility, reputation management and identity verification services.
Today, PeoplePond announced that profile authors can now prove and demonstrate ownership over many of their social media accounts when they subscribe to PeoplePond's Identity Verification package. This includes social media accounts on Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Picasa, Twitter and YouTube.
PeoplePond's Services Verification is the first of other new capabilities PeoplePond plans to launch during the upcoming weeks to make it easier for people to create a verified and trusted position from which to promote their personal brands and online assets. Each PeoplePond profile is designed to provide the owner full control to implement a search engine optimization strategy that boosts visibility for their entire online identity.
Additionally, the PeoplePond Identity Verification service confirms to profile visitors that the profile owner has proven they are who they say they are. This takes the teeth out of online identity thieves by providing a bona fide point of reference for online identity.
PeoplePond is part of the Cranberry Venture Partners, LLC network of Web sites. Cranberry is home to a team of developers led by David McInnis, who is best known for founding PRWeb.
Posted by Greg Jarboe on August 20, 2009 2:01 PM
Comments
WTF? If someone is so concerned about their online identity, why wouldn't they just make their own site using their name as their domain and link to all their social profiles from their site?
I'm having a hard time understaing the value in this. Especially this part... "create a verified and trusted position" ??? because so many people know and trust the PeoplePond.com brand...? Riiigghhhttttt
ryan August 21, 2009 4:34 PM
Ryan raises some good questions.
The answer to the first is many people don't have the time, knowledge or inclination to make their own site using their name as a domain. And even if they did, the majority of people do not have the knowledge, time or inclination search engine optimize their site and the content on the site to the same level as is accomplished by using PeoplePond.
Regarding use of PeoplePond to build a verified and trusted position, PeoplePond provides an excellent opportunity for people with valuable personal brands to get their personal identity verified publicly and also assert ownership over the locations of their online assets (social media accounts, blogs, etc.). Working from this publicly verified and authenticated position, they have taken responsibility for what they publish and their audience will value that far more than content from anonymous sources.
The end result is:
- increased visibility
- personal SEO
- public verification of identity
- asserting ownership of social media accounts, blogs and other online publishing locations.
- free API, plug-ins, widgets, Facebook Apps, and other tools to help your online identity reach more people.
Joe Beaulaurier September 1, 2009 5:35 PM
Well said, Joe.
Greg Jarboe September 2, 2009 10:40 AM
