Cranberry Splash » web badge http://blog.cranberry.com News and musings from the folks at Cranberry Venture Partners, LLC Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:11:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The totally awesome PeoplePond online identity badge is ready for your blog http://blog.cranberry.com/2009/12/the-totally-awesome-peoplepond-online-identity-badge-is-ready-for-your-blog/ http://blog.cranberry.com/2009/12/the-totally-awesome-peoplepond-online-identity-badge-is-ready-for-your-blog/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:19:35 +0000 Joe Beaulaurier http://blog.cranberry.com/?p=1245 PeoplePond Online Identity Badge WidgetBloggers 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:

1. To have ADAM send along CSS styling, as we do with the WordPress widget, you’ll want to include the “widget” argument.
 
2. Alternatively, if you wish to render the output differently you can call the “mini” argument instead and this will return un-styled XHTML.

 

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

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