Manage your online identity.

Continuing our publicity tour around the UK, we see that ClaimID has popped up in a summary of news items about reputation management in The Times. We were also pleasantly surprised to see ClaimID show up in Marie Claire, as discovered in the print edition by one of my family members. Our empire expands everyday!

ClaimID and a number of other identity management were recently feature in the New Scientist article Don’t let cyber-spite ruin your good name.

So how can you protect your reputation online” Various companies are now offering to help, by managing what is written about you on the web. ClaimID, founded by Terrell Russell and Fred Stutzman, is a free service that allows users to collect, annotate and verify information that is either about them, or written by them, such as blogs, websites or news articles mentioning them. The result is a list of links to websites the users have approved. “You can think of it as an online link resumé,” says Russell.

This means that when people search for your name they will come across your ClaimID profile, which brings together all the online material you want. “The things that are about you online, the people you know, the contacts you make – they all equate to a reputation,” says Stutzman.

Check it out here!