How To Measure Your Online Influence Or Google Quotient
If you don’t show up in Google, you don’t exist
You can expect to be googled by recruiters, business partners, even dates and social media friends. So knowing what Google says about you and proactively managing your personal brand online is critical.
83% of recruiters use search engines to learn about candidates and 43% of recruiters admit to eliminating candidates based on information they found online.- ExecuNet Study, 2007
Accenture recently did a study to identify the world’s 50 most influential leaders, and one of the top criteria they used was those influencers’ Google quotient.
Read the Top 50 Business Intellectuals Pdf here
This Online ID Calculator, is the first and leading tool that will help you make sense of your Google results and give you advice on how to build a stellar online identity that’s aligned with your real-world personal brand.
The calculator was created to help professionals assess their online identity by William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson, authors of Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand
(Wiley, June 2007). William is known as the personal branding guru and Kirsten is a leading authority on using the Web to advance your career.
The calculator calculates your google quotient based on results when your name is googled and few more metrics.
Try the tool and lemme know how you find it through comments below. And stay tuned to my next post about “Tips to improving your google presence / google quotient”.
Good luck n Smiles,
ShriNagesh 
Twitter Small Business Solution
If you ever wondered how small businesses could benefit from Twitter, this might be the solution.
TwitterHawk is a start-up that aims to provide a targeted marketing solution for small businesses through twitter.
How does it work?
TwitterHawk says:
Let’s say you just opened a new coffee store in Queens and wanted to let people know about it. As part of your advertising efforts, you could setup TwitterHawk to search for things like “coffee near:Queens within:8mi” (of course you could simply search world wide if you are global).
TwitterHawk would then periodically (at a frequency determined by you) find twitter posts that mentioned coffee by users that are actually located within 8mi of Queens, and send them one of your pre-defined replies from you such as
‘@cracksh0t Have you seen our new Coffee Shop in Queens?’ or
‘@loxly What is your favourite blend? We’ve just opened a new store in Manhattan and would love to know what you think’
How Much Does This Cost?
Free.
Visit TwitterHawk site for more information.
What do you think about the service?
Awesome Alternative To Winzip Free Download
Free Winzip? Not a chance. But here is a cool alternative to winzip free download.
jZip is a new and free zip software
free winzip
Supporting Platforms:
Presently, Windows only. (Mac and Linux versions are expected to be available soon).
Supporting Formats:
Another cool feature of jZip is that it supports multiple popular archive formats Zip, RAR, 7z, ISO, TAR and GZip.
- It is fully compatible with archives created by other utilities such as WinZip, WinRar and 7-Zip.
- jZip is built on 7-Zip technology, which is the fast and achieves compression ratios that are higher or equivalent to other leading compression programs.
- free for both home and enterprise users.
- It can be used for both creating and opening archive files.
- jZip is 100% free for all – Individuals, schools, corporations, government agencies, etc. There is no Pro version – all features were included in one standard version.
- 5 star rated on brothersoft, softpedia, freeware genius and major geeks.
- And best of all, no adware, no spyware, no popups and no trojans.
I’ve downloaded and started using and it works like a charm. Download here.
Smiles,
ShriNagesh
Everything You Should Know About Google Latitude
Google latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile that helps you to see where your friends are in real time. You can use it from web as well as mobile.
Google latitude is available in 27 countries and 35 languages for now.
Countries:
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Language Support:
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukranian, and Vietnamese.
Mobiles that support google latitude:
- Android-powered devices, such as the T-Mobile G1
- iPhone and iPod touch devices (coming soon)
- most color BlackBerry devices
- most Windows Mobile 5.0+ devices
- most Symbian S60 devices (Nokia smartphones)
- many Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, such as Sony Ericsson devices (coming soon)
Google latitude on web:
You can also view google latitude on web by Adding Latitude to iGoogle.
What Can I Do With Google Latitude?
Share locations:
Share locations with your google friends. Location sharing starts only when both you and a friend agree. Invite friends via email or easily add them from your Gmail contacts.
Share status
Create a status message and upload your photo within Latitude. It also syncs directly with Google Talk. Check your friends’ status messages to see what your friends are up to.
Contact:
Quickly contact your friends with an SMS, IM, or phone call. You can also get directions to lead you to your friends.
Things you should know before using google latitude:
Privacy:
- You can share only with friends. You must either send the person a location request by adding them as a friend or accept their location request and choose to share back your location.
- Your location is detected automatically, unless, you manually set your location on the map that will be shared with friends.
- Hide your location. No friends can see your location. Your friends will not see your photo icon on a map and will not see a location for you in their list view.
- Sign out of Latitude. You can’t see your friends and they can’t see you. Your friends will not see your photo icon on a map and will not see a location for you in their list view
- You can also remove a friend from Latitude without removing from other google services like gtalk.
- You can always choose to share only city level location with individual friends by choosing this option after selecting the friend from the map or list view.
Cost:
- Google Latitude is free to download,
- Data service costs apply. continuous location sharing uses a lot of data and . Google recommends an unlimited data plan before using this feature.
Accuracy:
- WiFi : about 200m or better.
- GPS : several meters depending on your GPS signal and connection.
- In the absence of WiFi, Google’s cell tower location database : Accuracy is dependent on available cell tower data.
Battery Life:
- You can set the frequency of location updation and it will automatically decrease the frequency when your phone’s battery is low or your location has not changed recently.
- Enabling WiFi or GPS connections will use up battery more quickly than using Google Maps for mobile’s my location feature.
Google Latitude Privacy Tips Video:
Your opinion is valued: What do you think about Google Latitude? Share your tips through comments box.
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Smiles,
ShriNagesh
Upgrade PHP Version On Godaddy
On a godaddy hosting, you have two versions of PHP language to choose from PHP 4.0 & PHP 5.0.
When you create a database to install an application, you are asked to choose a version.
Why do you want to upgrade PHP?
Some applications run only on the latest version of PHP and give an error message when you try to install. Ex: lifestreaming software Sweetcron
See a demo on my lifestream (alpha version): A web & ecommerce strategist’s lifestream
How to upgrade?
First, log into your account:
• Go to the Go Daddy Account Login Page
• Log in using your account username (which may be the same as your customer number) and password
Once logged in, follow these steps:
1. Log in to your Account Manager.
2. In the My Products section, select Hosting.
3. Next to the hosting account you want to modify, click Manage Account.
4. In the Content section of the Hosting Control Center, click the Languages icon.
5. Select PHP version you’d like to set as the default.
6. Click Continue.
7. Verify the listed changes, and then click Update.
Your Language change will be submitted and takes upto 24 hours for the change to be processed by the hosting server.
NOTE: Although PHP 5 is the most current version, many applications still require version 4. Therefore, making this update may cause some of your PHP files to run incorrectly.
Would appreciate any comments and feedback about my lifestream blog, web2mom’s blog posts or just about anything
Smiles,
ShriNagesh