The basics of online personal branding
It is no secret that you have to be in charge of your own online personal brand: The image and message you convey to the world will stay with you forever.
If you put anything on the internet you can safely assume that it will be searchable and viewable forever.
With employers, vendors, friends, and potential co-founders all googling you, you need to be very aware of the all of the different channels in which your life is being streamed out over the internet (and off the internet).
Manage your privacy settings
We need FriendFeed for the Enterprise
Friendfeed, is awesome. In a nutshell, in enables you to produce a feed of all your activity online from various disparate systems. Moreover, you can aggregate the activity feeds of all of your friends, or special feeds in 'rooms'.
It's a Facebook activity stream on crack.
For example, check out my feed that is pulling information from my blogs, delicious, LibraryThing, twitter, Google Talk amongst many others.
But how can the business world capitalize on activity feed technologies?
Why should you care?
Activity feeds are going to be a key technology going forward for managing employees, because they enable management to monitor people based on results and actions, rather than time. It could be one of the missing pieces to make results oriented work environments more marketable.
