Howard Greenstein has published an article about PeoplePond in Inc. Magazine’s Start-Up Toolkit section entitled, “Are You for Real?” It’s a great read about how to go about using your PeoplePond and Company Profiles to
- improve your online visibility with greater personal SEO,
- prove your personal identity to your audience, trade partners and prospective contract employers (like, say, the government), and
- assert ownership over your online presence.
This is one of the problems that PeoplePond.com is trying to solve. When someone from a social network connects with you, how do you know that this particular “John Smith” is the John Smith who you met at the chamber of commerce meeting, or at college?
What?! You still haven’t created your PeoplePond and CompanyPond profiles? What’s stopping you? Get started now.
The following is a brief slide presentation that explains the different layers of functionality built-into your PeoplePond profile so that you can best optimize your profile to take advantage.
Speakers are welcome to make use of any or all of these slides within their own presentations.
Best when viewed in full screen mode (click the “Full” icon at the bottom) so you can see the itty-bitty letters.
Today, the Web Marketing Association announced their WebAwards for 2009 and we are proud to point out PeoplePond is on the list. PeoplePond has been recognized with the Standard of Excellence in the marketing category.
There are 96 industry categories and each site goes head-to-head with other sites from all over the world in their categories. WebAward judges represent various relevant disciplines and are distinguished experts in their fields. Judges include members of the media, advertising executives, top web site designers, content providers, and webmasters.
While site design is driven by market needs, it is the PeoplePond development team that sweats bullets, endures sleepless nights and wrangles with unforgiving code, vendors, hardware and marketing idiocy 
to ultimately persevere and deliver the award-winning user experience.
So Al, Barry, Nate and Poem, this one’s for you. Well done!
Before now, you had to be a celebrity to enjoy online identity verification. Maybe you’ve seen it on Justin Timberlake’s Twitter profile or maybe Kristin Bell’s (who, by the way, recently discovered someone attempting to hijack her identity on Twitter). But no more.
You can now protect yourself from identity hijacking and provide your followers with the confidence that you are who you say you are. PeoplePond has introduced the first opportunity to verify your complete online identity. There have been other solutions offered up in the past but they’ve always been lacking the most crucial element, verification of you.
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PeoplePond has developed from a search engine optimized online profile service to a full-fledged personal identity portal for people concerned about both increasing the visibility of what they produce online and protecting their reputation from others who may try to spoof their identity.
The ability to assert ownership over social media accounts and other sites has been recently launched on PeoplePond. And now that reach extends to blog sites. Making use of OpenID and OAuth support in the major blogging platforms, PeoplePond enables users to authenticate their ownership of their online content at these sites. Once a blog has been verified, followers will not have to worry about the authenticity of what they are reading.
There’s more coming so stay tuned. In the mean time, you can read more about this in the press release.
CompanyPond, Cranberry Venture Partners, PeoplePond | Joe Beaulaurier | 
November 18, 2009 4:00 pm | 
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