Comments on: Advice for the New Year from Seth Godin http://kalamitykat.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/ Still learning. Fri, 11 May 2012 01:58:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Megan Golding http://kalamitykat.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/#comment-1149 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:57:41 +0000 http://mgolding.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/#comment-1149 @Alfred: Thanks for sharing the link to the ebook. The author starts off with some great statistics on what are googling interviewees, and concludes with, “If you don’t exist online, do you really exist?” I’ve been amazed at the lack of online presence for some very young people I know. The ebook has great details for folks to develop an online presence legitimately.

@Janice: Great question! I think there are 2 issues in your question — spam harvesting and identity theft.

Post your email address on the web and spammers can harvest it. Don’t post your email and no one can contact you through email. I vote for posting your email address and letting a spam filter get rid of the bad stuff. My gmail address is all over the place, yet I get little spam. Perhaps your volume of spam could be reduced with a new email address or a new spam filter?

RE: Identity theft. I see the risk I take in putting personally identifying information out there to be worth it so I may get the rewards of the online presence. Finding a job and doing professional development are just 2 ways I use my online brand.

]]> By: Janice Friesen http://kalamitykat.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/#comment-1148 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:51:35 +0000 http://mgolding.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/#comment-1148 Megan,

I am always amazed that I come up first and pretty much fill the whole page when I Google myself. I think a side effect of that (or maybe of not being careful enough) is that I get lots of spam on the email account that I usually use.

Is there an issue with identity theft?

Janice

]]> By: Alfred Thompson http://kalamitykat.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/#comment-1147 Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:59:18 +0000 http://mgolding.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/advice-for-the-new-year-from-seth-godin/#comment-1147 A friend of mine released a free ebook on this topic today. Must be a lot of people thinking about it. There are a lot of good ways to build up an Internet presence.
The ebook is at http://effectiveinternetpresence.com/articles/effective-internet-presence.pdf and I thought it well done.

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