How to protect your online reputation
posted in - Palmdoc, - Technology |Doctors, do you know that patients are Googling you? Nowadays, there are Doctor ratings sites, and these may find their way to Malaysia as well. The Independent Urologist has these 10 steps on Protecting your Online Reputation
1. Blog and blog often.
2. Have your own website, even if you are part of a group.
3. Link your blog and website.
4. Publish articles, such as review articles, in medical journals and periodicals.
5. Post comments on other peoples blogs and allow them to post on yours..
6. Get your name in the media via interviews (see blogging and blogging often).
7. Google yourself on a regular basis.
8. Contact content providers that allow subscribers to post malicious writings about you and request that that they remove the comments.
9. Have a lawyer contact the content services or the offenders themselves with threats of litigation.
10. Seek help from online reputation management experts (yes they exist).
As for point #2, I think if you haven’t done so already, purchase a domain name which identifies you as a doctor. I can now tell my patients who request my contact
1. Go to Google
2. Enter my name
3. Hit “I’m feeling lucky”
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September 21st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Shouldn’t #2 be “Enter “hamsup doctor”" instead of “enter my name”? (sorry, couldn’t resist
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September 21st, 2008 at 2:06 pm
naaah. the top one in that search goes to some “gamer”. number 2 is still jimbo
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I am so mortified. No more shame in me….
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Of course if people keep using the H word in this blog, soon we’ll overtake Jimbo
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Please do, by all means. I don’t want to be remembered for ‘saltiness’.