Comments on: Clean up your Web 2.0 brand today!

By: Open Thread: What should we do with @UpTake Twitter account?

Open Thread: What should we do with @UpTake Twitter account? — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:07:10 +0000

[...] this year, I had a lively Twitter and blogosphere conversation with Stephen Joyce, Todd Lucier, Sean Keener, and Nitin Karandikar, and others about what to do with Corporate Twitter Accounts. [...]

By: sunnyclairc

sunnyclairc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:10:06 +0000

Great information…was struggling with the web id situation…have been using sunnyclairc …so far there is only 1 of me… as a woman with more last names than 1 it is a big decision as to which name to use. Can see the benefit of making that decision soon. Thanks for your input.
Am so happy to have taken your GMIST Edge of the Wedge session and met you… you continue to push the Edge.
Now to get proficient at connecting all these to my web presence.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:52:12 +0000

This is a good point. I’ve got 3 or 4 usernames, but it would have been so much tidier to have just one.

By: Free (but welcome) advice on the corporate use of Twitter

Free (but welcome) advice on the corporate use of Twitter — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:23:51 +0000

[...] @ToddLucier’s initial tweet reaction to us starting an @UpTake twitter account was a little negative: “Elliot, surely this place is more about people and their ideas than corporate brands.” Todd went further and on a post argued that people should use their own personal name consistently across all Web 2.0 platforms so as to build a…. [...]

By: Stephen Joyce

Stephen Joyce — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:52:54 +0000

Couldn’t agree with you more. When I started actively blogging and participating about 2 years ago I had to compete with “Stephen James Joyce”, the grandson of James Joyce for Google Rank. The only way I was going to have a hope in H3LL of competing was if I had enough exposure with my real name. Since then I have set-up a ton of accounts, all using the “stephenjoyce” where I could and “stephenajoyce” when the former was taken. Like you said Todd, it has made things a lot simpler in terms of organization, Google rank, and remember using names.