PeoplePond has just added OpenID as a means to register and log into your account to maintain your profile. On the surface, this means one less username and password to remember. And another benefit is your OpenID page will be automatically listed on your profile as a “verified” part of your online identity.
As noted in an earlier post, PeoplePond is enabling you to not only prove to your followers that you have proven your personal identity but also you have proven ownership of the accounts listed in the online identity section of your profile. Introduce OpenID into this equation and suddenly there are hundreds (if not thousands?) of services for which you can quickly prove ownership of to your followers.
More details are in the press release.
This is all about trust. Projecting your personal brand and entire online identity from a trusted platform that eliminates any concerns about identity spoofing will give you an added advantage with your followers.
So for those of you keeping count, a PeoplePond profile provides:
- Increased exposure for your entire online identity using a fundemental search engine optimization strategy.
- Advanced personal identity verification (you are who you say you are)
- Far-reaching online identity verification (proving ownership of online assets)
- A trusted platform from which to project your personal brand.
And there’s more coming.
The development team at PeoplePond has been kicking it recently and now you get to see the results of their late nights and early mornings.
It’s so easy for someone to put up accounts on social media sites, free blog publishing platforms, etc. and pretend to be you. If you have a personal brand that you’ve invested years to develop, such behavior should scare the living !@#$ out of you. It doesn’t take much to destroy even the strongest personal brand when followers don’t have an authenticated center point that is independently verifiable.
Now you can create that trusted center point to provide your followers with your PeoplePond profile. Our users who subscribe to PeoplePond’s Identity Verification Package will discover two very exciting features are now available:
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PeoplePond president, Theron McCollough, will be attending Gnomedex later this week. Gnomedex is an annual technology conference in Seattle known to draw tech influencers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts.
If you’re at Gnomedex and can track down Theron (recent mugshot provided here), it will be a great opportunity to discuss best practices for getting the most exposure for your personal brand using PeoplePond and for your company brand using CompanyPond. He can also tell you about the latest developments for authenticating ownership of your online assets (read social media accounts) while also verifying your identity (you are who you say you are).
PeoplePond now has a sister site, CompanyPond. CompanyPond is an easy to use powerful online service that enables search engine optimization (SEO) experts and novices to train search engines to promote the best of their company’s online assets, making them more visible to prospective customers, potential employees and trade partners.
The best use of CompanyPond is to leverage the many PeoplePond profiles of the company’s staff, board members and evangelists. From the press release announcing the launch:
“The incredible SEO benefit of leveraging CompanyPond with PeoplePond to make use of the brand advocates found in employees, partners, stakeholders and evangelists is undeniable,” said David McInnis, the innovative mind who conceptualized both PeoplePond and CompanyPond.
Read the full press release here.
Will you be attending Search Engine Strategies (SES) 2009 in San Jose? If so, you are invited to drop by the PeoplePond booth and learn the best practices for building your PeoplePond online profile for maximum visibility and using the many tools for extending its reach to your blog site, Facebook, etc. We’ll also be discussing and answering questions about the recently launched PeoplePond ID Verification feature.
Cranberry Venture Partners, PeoplePond, Press Releases | Joe Beaulaurier | 
August 25, 2009 8:18 am | 
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