If you are like me you have many profiles on the net…and yes some sites can and will share your information online.  I don’t know…I’m splattered all over the net from my real estate business license to personal information that other sites accumulate…I didn’t give them permission…the info is available and they helped themselves.  Trust me they are doing it to you too!

Type Your Name in the Browser and SEE who helps Themselves to your personal info. ..you might be surprised!

Let’s get real if I really wanted to be private I guess I wouldn’t be on the net or I wouldn’t expose myself the way that I have throughout the years.

Today nothing is private and if you have lots of friends online there is a chance they may be sharing your personal information and you might not be aware of it.  Doesn’t bother me…but it may bother my friends…

For All of My Private Friends – I Made Adjustments To FACEBOOK!

There is an awesome tool available called reclaimprivacy.org if these things matter to you.  Its very simple to use and will let you know the adjustments you need to make if you want to be “private”

Follow the simple instructions below but while you do it…make sure you are logged into facebook.

1. Drag this link to your web browser bookmarks bar: Scan for Privacy
2. Log in to facebook.com and then click that bookmark
3. You will see a series of privacy scans that inspect your privacy settings and warn you about settings that might be unexpectedly public.

Adjust your setting as you see fit…don’t worry…my friends info..is just between friends!

Yesterday while reading the web a thought crossed my mind…are humans really ready for transparency?  With readers expecting higher levels of transparency…can humans really handle it? When reading some of these sites you can feel how the transparency slowly releases.

Sometimes the transparency is lopsided or one sided by only offering some of the facts and/or a few little white lies or some of the important details are left out…allowing the imagination to wonder about peoples behaviors…encouraging speculation, and a war begins right online.  Next thing you know…all kinds of secrets revealed..and a blanket of dirt spreads all over the web but worse a division occurs because someone was too transparent and some human beings can’t handle it.

When this type of behavior happens I wonder if humans are really ready for transparency?  We want to know more about people, we expect people to share themselves..we judge people based on interactions…connections…and building bonds but all people are different with different cultures, morals and goals…..we don’t want to hear the bad or the ugly or do we?

We do…. sometimes in the world of transparency….certain things get revealed….and the meter of truth causes discomfort to those who judge rather harshly rather than look into their own lives.  Because we are all different some may not be open enough to share their everyday lives….because of some stranger might get offended or look down at our written words.

In this modern day of technology as people we feel entitlement as long as the transparency is on someone else.  Curious by nature…we expect people to reveal everything about themselves even if the choices someone else makes is quite different from our own.    Instead of looking at our own lives and fixing what needs to be repaired…we read about others and sometimes are very shocked in what is revealed….sometimes we can’t handle the truth…sometimes the truth is too harsh…sometimes the truth is TMI and better left unsaid.

What right do we have as humans to knock, ridicule and judge those who are very transparent?  I applaud those that are true to themselves….who doesn’t hide the fact the life is bigger than what they do for a living….because they choose to live their life and share it on the web.

Yesterday I witness something that was just down right mean spirited…nothing new…but what I found interesting….was the comments showed transparency and revealed character….in truth I am disappointed…the comments not only were transparent of  character but those few that I held in high regard….is no longer transparency….but TMI!

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There are so many social media sites available today.  God knows I am probably on 100 different sites.  Being on so many sites can be difficult to track your success rate.

A few google searches and taking the time to find out how people found you will always be a guiding light in which what social networking sites to be active on.

Naymz.com is so under rated…if only people knew the true value.  I can attest to this since I recently changed the way I do business and have added additional services.  Naymz.com gets the word out…..

With endorsements, testimonials and a point system that allows active members to be found on the top of the search engines a true benefit for your online presence and SEO.

Check it out and let me know what you think.  If you are there  why not connect with me!

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When tracking marketing it is extremely important to know where your leads are coming from.  I often wonder when someone calls to utilize your services do you remember to think about…

Lead Generation | How did they find me?

Often times when I pose this question to someone they are not sure…either somewhere online or so and so referred me.  I don’t know about you…but I really appreciate specifics.   I want to know is my marketing working for me and what marketing specifically?

Yes I know more than likely most track where their leads come from but I wonder when someone asks you, how did you find me…do you remember or are you toooooo busy to provide it? I’m not being a jerk here just trying to make a point.

Everyone in business want to to track their marketing….any business and you should!

This doesn’t pertain to just real estate but to all businesses that would include mortgage brokers | insurance agents | doctors | lawyers | webmasters…etc. etc.  To me we have to help each other and by providing this courtesy to your personal service providers may very well help you to remember to ask that very important question yourself.

How did you find me?

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Today I read an interesting article about technorati authority.  How irrelevant blog rolls are to your ranking.  Yes it’s changed… and if you didn’t know it -read the full article here.

Quoting Jean Mclean, The Technorati news..

“The new crawler also relies more heavily on feed data. To be certain that your full posts and all of your links are indexed, please provide a full-content feed.  As some blogs only provide partial or plain-text feeds, we may not collect links from those posts.”

I guess that means I need to get to work!