The totally awesome PeoplePond online identity badge is ready for your blog

Bloggers rejoice! Now you can represent your online identity in style using the PeoplePond badge via the WordPress PeoplePond Identity Widget or the PeoplePond ADAM API. This badge is another example of PeoplePond’s continuing commitment to find more ways to extend the reach and value of your PeoplePond profile.

No longer are you stuck with a bunch of different badges from a variety of services in a variety of colors and sizes into your sidebar. Instead you get a professionally designed badge that includes:

• Your name and title just as you have it on your PeoplePond profile
• Your photo from your profile
• Your Identity Verification status
• Chicklets (little icons) linking to your presence at all the services where your blog visitors can connect with and discover more about you.

Some of you will notice this badge follows the same great look used in the PeoplePond Facebook profile badge.

Both the ADAM API implementation and the WordPress widget provide complete SEO benefits by providing clean links from the badge back to your profile and also from the chicklets, helping boost your online personal brand’s SEO and visibility up even more.

To install the WordPress PeoplePond Online Identity Widget, simply search for the “PeoplePond Online Identity Widget” from the Plugins – Add New page and click Install when the plugin has been located.

To install the ADAM API badge on a non-wordpress site, you can call the API directly in one of two ways:

http://adam.peoplepond.com/peeps.php?displayName=XXXXXX&widget=yes

http://adam.peoplepond.com/peeps.php?displayName=XXXXXX&mini=yes

And of course, if you still haven’t created your PeoplePond and CompanyPond profiles, what’s stopping you? Get started now. 

Bloggers can now proactively defend themselves from identity spoofers

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.