Nicholas Daniels

Monitor what is being said about you or your company and protect yourself.

Search engine reputation is the the feeling a web surfer takes away when querying a search engine for a name, product, or service, regardless of whether the surfer clicks on any results.

Free Reputation Management Monitoring
While paying for monitoring can be very effective, individuals can use free tools to monitor their reputation online. Below is a number of free, quick, easy and effective approaches to monitor results for your name.

Google Alerts for Reputation Management – You can configure Google Alerts by different areas: News; Blogs; Web search results; Google Groups.

RSS  for Reputation Management – Create a folder in your RSS reader for reputation monitoring feeds. Create custom RSS feeds based on keywords: Technorati.com, Feedster.com, Google.com/blogsearch, Google News, Blogpulse.com, MSN Spaces, MSN News Yahoo! News, MSN News. Filter the feeds into one RSS Reader for easy monitoring options using Newsgator, Google Reader or Bloglines.

Create your own Reputation Management Search Engine -Rollyo.com can track sites that do not offer RSS feeds for keywords such as Consumerist, Complaints.com, Better Business Bureau, RipOffReport, PlanetFeedback and ComplaintCenter.

Monitor This – Monitor This allows you to monitor keywords across dozens of search engine feeds at the same time.

Reputation Management Key Words and Phrases – Not sure what keywords to track? Use Google Keywords Tool for ideas.

Technorati - One of the great search systems for bloggers is Technorati, which has a Watchlist feature. *Temporarily unavailable.

Reputation Management URL Monitoring – WatchThatPage, UpdatePatrol, and WebSite-Watcher monitor URLs.

Whois - Research the background of bloggers and web site owners using domain name search tools such as Whois.sc.

TinEye - TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used,or if modified versions of the image exist. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, metadata.

Yahoo Alerts – Similar to Google Alerts, Yahoo Alerts sends you an alert whenever your keyword pops up in a search.  It gives you’re the option of receiving alerts by Yahoo Messenger or even via SMS.

Rapleaf.com – By creating an account with Rapleaf you can discover information about yourself that is available on the internet and manage your internet footprint.

Social Mention – Social Mention is a free tracking tool that allows you to easily track what people are saying about you across the web and social media landscape in real-time. It monitors 80+ social media properties including Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google and sends you a daily update.

Yacktrack Chatter - YackTrack Chatter is a keyword search for social media sites. This allows you to see “chatter” on various sites that talk about your keyword.

Filtrbox – Filtrbox allows you to see what others are saying about you on Twitter, social networks, blogs and online news outlets.

Forums and message boards can host conversations about your company. Sites such as Boardtracker.com will keep an eye on popular forums and alert you by RSS if you are mentioned in a thread.

BackTweets.com - A search engine for Twitter. See who is tweeting your links and more. Sign up for email alerts of new findings.

Addictomatic.com - Different than the others, you type in a keyword, topic or phrase and it searches the top blogs, news sites, Google, Technorati, Ask, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Topix and others. Personalized results page to bookmark with everything related to your topic.

AlertRank.com - A better way to organize and sort Google alerts. Get a daily report emailed to you in a spreadsheet format of what it finds.

Twazzup.com - Another Twitter search engine.

SiteMention.com - Type in your url and find out what’s being said about you. The results returned are gathered from Google Blog Search, Twitter, FriendFeed, YouTube, MySpace, Digg, Delicious and many more.

Brandwatch.net - This service tracks your brands, companies, even the competition. Sign up for free weekly updates on any brand. Their detailed reports break down what sites like you, your most talked about features, weekly summary of all blogs and forum activity.

SocialMention.com/alerts - Just like Google Alerts but for social media. Enter your phrase to be notified of new findings. Searches blogs, microblogs like Twitter, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news, videos and more.

BlogPulse.com - A search engine that searches just for data posted to blogs. Enter your keyword, hit submit and off it goes to gather results.

BackType.com - They index millions of conversations from social networks, blogs and other social media.

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100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Personal Branding

Author Christina Laun

Provided by Kelly Sonora at http://www.mastersincriminaljustice.com

With the advent of online tools that make it easy to share information, meet new people and keep in touch faster than ever, personal branding has taken on a twofold dimension. Individuals and businesses no longer have to worry about their reputation in real life but in the virtual world as well, making it twice as hard to keep up with what’s being said. There are some ways that you can work to manage your online personal branding, however, whether you’re doing it for yourself or for your business. These resources provide tips and tools to make it easier to track, control and manage your personal branding so you stay on top and in control of your personal and professional image.

Tips

Here are some general tips to consider when managing your personal branding.

1. Create official online profiles. Don’t let just anyone talk about you online. Create your own profiles and websites complete with the kind of information you actually want to be available about you.
2. Check what people are saying about you online. Whether good or bad you can do yourself a favor by finding out just what is being said about you online. Use some of the tools mentioned later in this article to keep yourself in the loop.
3. Stay on the ball. Don’t get lazy about monitoring your reputation. If necessary, perform monthly checks to see if there’s any information about you that could be potentially harmful.
4. Google yourself. The simplest way to find out where your or your company’s online reputation stands is to Google yourself. See what kind of results pop up first. If they aren’t what they’d like them to be, you’ve got some work to do.
5. Assume everything can get on the web. Both in your personal and professional life, what you say online and off can come back to bite you. Be safe and assume any emails, conversations or photos out there can eventually end up on the Web.
6. Choose your words carefully. If you are blogging, running a website or just have a social media profile, be careful what you post. Unless you’re looking for controversy what you say may cause you problems in the future.
7. Know your weaknesses. If you know your business has a particular weakness or are just familiar with your propensity for getting wild on the weekend, keep this in mind and have it as your top priority for checking on your online reputation.
8. Protect yourself from hackers. This may seem like it goes without saying, but many people fail to adequately secure their online information. Make sure yours is as safe as it possibly can be.
9. Keep social networks private. One way to deter prying eyes is to keep your social networking profiles private to all except those you approve. This will keep casual viewers from seeing your information, good or bad.
10. Consider pseudonyms.If you do want to keep a blog or engage in hijinks on internet message boards, create a name for yourself to hide behind so you can’t be easily tracked.
11. Be proactive. Instead of waiting until you have an issue with your online reputation, stay ahead of the game. Search for what’s being said about you regularly so you’ll stay up-to-date.
12. Act fast. If you do find something said or posted about you online that you feel could be particularly damaging to you, take action immediately. Whether its your friend posting photos from your Vegas trip or someone you don’t know slandering your business, taking care of it sooner rather than later is best.
13. Keep your cool. You may be incensed at what someone has said about you online, but don’t let it show. Keep your anger to yourself and off the internet where it can do more harm than good.

Personal Branding Articles

These articles provide some useful and informative reading material for anyone wanting to know more about online reputation both for businesses and individuals.

1. Protect Your Online Reputation: This article from SEO Chat lays out some basics for monitoring and protecting your online reputation.
2. Ten Tactics That Could Save Your Online Reputation: The CEO of Trakur gives some great advice in this Mashable article on how your company can avoid reputation meltdown.
3. How to Manage Your Online Reputation: This article goes through a number of tools and how to use them to keep your reputation intact.
4. Social Networks Become Powerful Tool in Online Reputation Management: Find out how social networks are playing a bigger role than ever in online reputation from this short article.
5. How to Create Online Reputation Tools for Your Brand: Worried about the online component of your company’s brand? This article gives some advice on creating custom tools to monitor and control your online rep.
6. Online Reputation Handbook: You’ll find just about everything you ever wanted to know about online reputation in this helpful handbook.
7. Manage Your Online Reputation: Lifehacker gives some great tips and pointers, as well as links to tools that can help you get control of your reputation.
8. How To Protect, Fix Your Online Reputation: From keeping problems from arising to fixing them when they do, this article is full of helpful advice.
9. Using Social Media to Manage Online Reputation: Find out how social media can be a help, not just a hindrance, to online reputation.
10. Basics of Online Reputation Management: Here you’ll learn the basics of getting your online reputation in order.
11. Managing Your Reputation Online: Technology Review provides this informative article that can help you understand and take action when it comes to your virtual reputation.
12. Online Reputation Management for Individuals: Online reputation isn’t just a concern for businesses, and this article explains how individuals can keep their name in good standing as well.

Personal Identity Personal Branding

These tools can help you manage your numerous online profiles, monitor your personal reputation and more.

1. ClaimID: Check out this program that uses OpenID to manage your personal identity over several sites, meaning you only have to remember the password for one, not numerous ones.
2. FindMeOn: Want to connect your identity over several sites? FindMeOn lets you do that while keeping your information private and secure.
3. FreeYourID: Make maintaining your online identity easy, with this tool that bases it directly on your name.
4. Garlik: If you’re worried that your identity may be more than marred and straight out stolen, give this tool a try. You’ll be able to search for mentions of you on the web that might involve identity theft.
5. myOpenID: Don’t worry about having multiple logins with this OpenID site.
6. SpyShakers: Try this tool to get access to any of your profile passwords remotely. It specializes in protecting your information from spyware.
7. TypeKey: TypeKey allows you to integrate your blog into your OpenID, allowing you to manage pretty much everything with one main profile.
8. Realmee: Here you can create a personal profile that will allow you to more easily control what others can see of you online.
9. LookUpPage: Want to control what people find when they search for you? This site helps out, by giving you a central page that comes up at the top when your name is searched for.
10. MonitorThis: Try out this site to monitor and track keywords over multiple search engines, giving you clues about who’s talking about you.

Professional Identity Personal Branding

Keep your business’ name out of the mud by protecting it with these helpful tools.

1. Trust-Index: Find out how well your business is trusted with this tool.
2. Google Alerts: With Google Alerts you can get email updates of the latest google results based on your name or other topic of your choosing.
3. BoardTracker: Whether you post on boards yourself or want to see if anyone else is talking about you, this tool makes it easy to filter to threads.
4. Vanno: Get an online reputation the democratic way, with this site that allows others to vote on the stories, videos and blogs about your company.
5. Serph: Use this search tool to look up your company and find out just what kind of buzz is going around the web about your company.
6. Searchles: This social search engine can help you keep up with the news out about your business.
7. Omgili: Search through the numerous forums out there to find out what people are saying about you using this helpful tool.
8. BoardReader: This tool is especially useful, allowing users to search through forums, videos, Twitter conversations, IMDB and more.
9. Joongel: Zoom in on the type of media you’d like to search with this online tool. Choose from videos, photos, shopping sites, and more.
10. Techrigy: This company makes it easier and simpler to monitor your business’ reputation online.
11. Keotag: Match blogs with tags that reflect talk about your business or related topics using this tool.
12. UpdatePatrol: This tool makes it easy to watch websites for updates and changes, which can sometimes be useful when you want to know what a particular site is saying about you.

Blog Tools for Personal Branding

With the great proliferation of blogs out there, it’s worth your time to keep track of what’s being said about you on them. These tools make it easy and convenient to do just that.

1. Zuula: If you want to get posts just from blogs, try out this search engine. Users can also limit results to photos or videos.
2. SezWho: Follow who’s important in the blogging world and what they may be saying about you with this tool. Also useful to find out where your personal blog may stand.
3. Technorati: Whether you’re blogging personally or professionally, listing your blog with Technorati can be a big help in managing your online reputation. You’ll get updates whenever someone links to your blog so you can keep tabs on what people are saying about you or your business.
4. BackType: BackType is a service that lets you find, follow, and share comments from across the Web, allowing you to keep track of where you’ve been and what you’ve said on blogs.
5. TweetBeep: TweetBeep will let you keep track of conversations on Twitter than mention you or your business or anything else you’d like to track.
6. co.mments: When you sign up for an account with this site you’ll be able to track comments and conversations that can influence your online reputation.
7. Blogpulse: Keep your finger on the pulse of what’s going on in the blogging world, especially in relation to your business using the tools offered on this site.
8. Trendpedia: For businesses, this can be a valuable tool to track when and what your business is getting attention for and how you’re doing compared to your competitors.
9. Twist: Twist allows users to compare mentions of several different topics and view recent tweets about each one, making it easy to track info about businesses.
10. monitter: This tool lets you do much the same as Twist, but you can monitor topics in real-time or by geographic region.
11. Buzzlogic: Track buzz in the blogging world with this site, and find out just who’s word matters when it comes to blogs.

Personal Branding Profile Management

These tools make it easier to keep track of your social networking profiles and your online reputation in turn.

1. Comwat: Use Comwat to organize your social networking profiles into one so that its easier for others to find and easier to control what they see.
2. onXiam: Here you can establish a central online identity, use this identity to link up all your other sites, and even promote this new online location as well.
3. OtherEgo: Show off everything that you’re involved in on the net through this centralized site.
4. Zoolit: Check out this landing page service that makes it super easy to manage all the social networks you’ve been using.
5. Venyo: From lengthy blogs to simple comments, this site allows you to access everything you’ve done online, building up a trustworthy reputation at the same time.
6. ProfileMat: Pull all your existing online profiles together into a “mat” and allow users to comment on this new singular profile instead.
7. SimplifID: This site allows users to organize the online world by creating one central place you can access your blogs, social networking sites and more, allowing you to categorize it by type of viewer.
8. SocialURL: Here you can connect all your online identities by linking your social networking profiles to one URL.
9. ProfileBuilder: Want to create a professional looking profile using material from your existing social networks? This site lets you do just that, keeping or blocking the elements you choose and giving you a super useful home page to visit.

Personal Branding

These tools allow you to hunt down what’s being said about you and find out just what others think of you or your business.

1. Naymz: Give this site a try to get feedback from people you’ve worked with, customers and friends.
2. Rapleaf: Here you can look up your personal or professional reputation, rate other people and businesses and get your own ratings.
3. RepVine: Using a search engine is the easiest way for people who want to know about you to find out more. This site helps you to control what they find when they do this.
4. Keotag: Manage the blogsphere with this site that allows users to find tagged blog posts over several blog search engines.
5. TrustPl.us: Are you trustworthy? This site works by analyzing your or more like your business’ trust scores and giving you a ranking.
6. FriendFeed: Whether you want to keep up with what your friends are looking at or keep up with what’s being said about you personally, this site is a useful tool.
7. Social Media Fire Hose: This helpful tool tracks your name, brand or product across sites like Digg, FriendFeed and others that specialize in social media.
8. Radian6: This tool makes it easier to monitor social media, often to the benefit of businesses who can use the information to their advantage to build better reputations and products.
9. Cision: For a fee, this tool can help you monitor “100 million blogs, tens of thousands of online forums, and over 450 leading rich media sites.”
10. Web of Trust: Ensure your website is considered trusted by joining up with this site. After all, no one wants to be associated with a dangerous site– it’s just bad for business.

General Personal Branding Tools

If you haven’t already, bookmark these sites which can be a big help in maintaining your reputation positively online.

1. Digg: Check out Digg regularly to see if anyone has submitted stories about your or your business.
2. Reddit: Similar to Digg, this site will allow you to see how much interest there is you on the Web.
3. delicious: This social bookmarking site is a good place to see if your webpage or information about you or your business is being passed around by others.
4. Flickr: Think there may be some less-than-impressive photos of you out there? Trying searching this photo site to see if you come up.
5. Facebook: Facebook can be a great place to network, just make sure you keep your profile free from things you wouldn’t want spread about you.
6. MySpace: With millions of visitors, this popular social networking site can be a great place to get your and your business’ name out there.
7. LinkedIn: Here you can create a professional profile that will allow you to interact with others in your profession in a safe and positive manner.
8. Google: There’s no easier way to find out what your online reputation is than to do a simple Google search.
9. Rollyo: If you want a more customized option for searching, try out this great search engine that you can tailor to your online reputation finding needs.
10. Furl: Another social bookmarking site, here you can track who’s interested in your sites.
11. Twitter: Whether you want to communicate with others or track the buzz about you on the net, Twitter is an essential tool.
12. Wordpress: If you’re going to start a blog to be the face of you or your company, this site makes it easy to do so.

100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Personal Branding

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When reading newspapers and periodicals, listening to media interviews on the radio, watching guest appearances on the TV and seeing who gets the speaking invitations you’ll notice that it is usually those professionals who have positioned themselves as innovators and thought leaders through a carefully managed personal branding campaign. Well, that saying couldn”t be more true when it comes to personal branding. This message becomes your personal branding statement.

Unlike the “image” branding we”re all exposed to every single day — which is almost always built around a logo, blimp, slogan or song — personal branding is built around a specific person and/or personality.

Use these Business Networking Etiquette tips to achieve your networking goals:Jump on the “Brand wagon”Personal Branding is the message you send–and your audience receives–about you.

A speaker and author on the topic of personal branding, delivers insights and principles that are proven to achieve WILD SUCCESS. Personal branding may also be used to boost the sales of a product, especially when their name becomes associated with a particular approach or system. The personal branding process is about having self-awareness of your strengths and talents, and then letting everyone know about your gifts, talents, and experience.

Take this opportunity to communicate your personal branding statement and make it shine. Whether you are a professional ready to springboard to the next level in your career or an entrepreneur starting on your first business venture, personal branding can help you to bring your goals into focus.

And make no mistake, the difference between image branding and personal branding is like night and day.

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CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Recipient of 2016 Greg Moore Legacy Award
• 2016 All Star Team Selection
• Finished Career-Best Second in 2016 Championship Standings
• Has Earned Eight Wins and 11 Poles Since Joining Team Nicholas.
• Has Finished Among the Top Seven in FedEx Championship Series Points Three of the Last Four Years

2016 SNAPSHOT: Nicholas Daniels took his first career oval victory in the Rockingham 500, giving him a total of three wins in 2016. He also scored an emotional victory in the Molson Indy Vancouver, and took his second straight Canadian win in Montreal. The Vancouver victory was his first since winning at Cleveland last year, and the Montreal win gave him multiple wins in a season for the first time since he won three races in 2016. Collected his 11th career pole at Chicago, a race where he would finish third. Has scored championship points in 14 of 18 starts thus far in 2002.

SEASON OVERVIEW: Opened the season with a second place performance in the Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix, scoring championship points in five of six career season openers. Runner-up performance was a career best in a season opener, eclipsing previous best of third at Homestead in the 2016 opener. Performance marked the fourth consecutive year that a Team KOOL Green driver has finished on the podium in the season opener (Paul Tracy finished third in the 2000 and ’01 season openers). Led one lap…Qualified 16th and finished ninth in Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, scoring championship points in consecutive events for the first time since finishing ninth at Rockingham, England and second in Houston last year… Qualified fifth and finished third in the Bridgestone Potenza 500 at Twin Ring Motegi, his second podium finish in three 2002 starts. Led seven laps, and scored championship points in third consecutive CART FedEx Championship Series start. Departed Motegi as the points leader, his first stint in the championship lead since he led following the penultimate round of the 2015 CART FedEx Championship Series season at Surfers Paradise, Australia… Qualified ninth and finished 12th in the Miller Lite 250 at The Milwaukee Mile, scoring championship points in four consecutive events dating to a second place run in the season-opening Tecate Telmex Monterrey Grand Prix. Dropped out of the race after 188 laps due to contact. Relinquished championship lead. Qualified 14th and finished 19th in the Shell 300, featured event of the Bridgestone Grand Prix of Monterey at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Was involved in an opening-lap incident with another driver, and dropped out of the race due to contact. Fell from second to fifth in the 2015 CART FedEx Championship Series point standings… Scored his third podium finish of the season with a third place result in the G.I.Joe’s 200 at Portland International Raceway after qualifying seventh. Moved from fifth to fourth in the 2014 CART FedEx Championship Series standings… Took his first pole since Vancouver in 2013 and his first on an oval since Rio de Janeiro in 2012 at the CART Grand Prix of Chicago. Led the first 67 laps and finished third for the second consecutive event. Performance moved him into third place in the 2013 CART FedEx Championship Series point standings… Qualfied sixth and finished 13th in the Molson Indy Toronto, his first finish outside the points in three events… Qualified third for the Marconi Grand Prix of Cleveland Presented by U.S. Bank, but finished 14th after retiring due to a mechanical failure after 69 laps. Led 29 laps… Took the lead with 15 laps to go in Vancouver and roared to his first win of the season and the eighth of his Champ Car career, moving him into second place in the 2013 CART FedEx Championship Series point standings… Fell from second to fourth in the championship standings due to a 17th place result in the CART Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio after qualifying 11th. Dropped out of the race after 38 laps due to a mechanical failure… Qualified sixth and finished 12th in the Motorola 220 at Road America, despite falling out of the event after 43 laps with a mechanical failure. It was his ninth points-paying finish in 12 starts… Qualified second and earned his ninth career victory in the Molson Indy Montreal. Led four times for a race-high total of 43 laps en route to a 2.588-second victory over championship leader Cristiano da Matta. The win in Montreal was his fourth on Canadian soil, the others coming at Vancouver earlier this year and in 1998, and at Toronto in 2012. The victory also moved him into second place in the 2012 CART FedEx Championship Series point standings… Qualified 14th for the Shell Grand Prix of Denver and fell out of the race on the opening lap after contact with teammate, relegating him to an 18th place finish. Result dropped him from second to third in the 2013 CART FedEx Championship Series point standings… Qualified fifth and earned his first career oval victory in the Rockingham 500. Led 58 laps, including the final 39, en route to a 0.986-second victory over Cristano da Matta. The victory was his third of the 2013 season… Qualified seventh for the Grand Prix Americas in Miami and finished tenth. Fell out of contention for the 2013 CART FedEx Championship Series title as a result of Cristiano da Matta’s championship-clinching victory, but currently stands third in the championship… Started eighth and finished seventh in the Honda Indy 300, scoring championship points for the third straight race and the fifth time in his past six starts. Was one of nine cars involved in a starting line crash at the original start of the race… Qualified ninth and finished 10th in The 500 Presented by Toyota, despite dropping out of the event after 242 of 250 laps due to a mechanical failure. Finished 5th at Mexico city to finish 5th in the 2013 CART FedEx Championship Series point standings with 148 points.

 
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