by Brian Solis
New services launch seemingly every day. Where do you need to be? How can you be everywhere at once? As with all social communities, we will go where our friends, peers, and professional contacts congregate and communicate with each other. But until we get around to creating an account in each network, which to date has proved to be an elusive process, how do we beat others who may wish to use the same username or those cybersquatters who horde brand names as ransome?
In the era of the socialized Web, brand and reputation management is now integrated as systematic process in our daily routine. We ARE responsible for our personal brand as well as the corporate brand we represent. Securing that online brand and investing in and cultivating an impeccable and influential reputation is critical to establishing and maintaining a consistent, strategic, and complementary presence from network to network.
Lucky for us, there is a helpful dashboard now available for to streamline the process of obtaining and creating online identities.
UserNameCheck cross references every major social network for the availability of your desired username. The results are displayed in one master dashboard, providing you with the ability to determine which networks require your attention and also a direct link to secure the username.
For more on the subject of personal, professional and corporate branding and reputation management, please read “In the Social Web, We Are All Brand Managers” over at PR 2.0.
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