Start-Up Toolkit article describes best practices for PeoplePond and CompanyPond profiles

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

1. improve your online visibility with greater personal SEO,
2. prove your personal identity to your audience, trade partners and prospective contract employers (like, say, the government), and
3. 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.