Keep Your Online Reputation Clean with SocioClean

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You really have to be careful about the way you represent yourself online. There are many companies now that will do a quick search for your name on Google before even considering you for a job. Then there are those who won’t even consider working with you on a professional level if your online presence is unprofessional in any way. This is why it’s important to watch what you say and be careful of the things you share (images, videos, status updates, etc).

The Solution

SocioClean is a tool that understands the importance of a clean online presence, so they built a site that allows you “understand and protect your social reputation.” What it is supposed to do is connect all of the major social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and let you monitor them for questionable and inappropriate content. In essence, it’s supposed to be like a constantly running washing machine for your social profiles.

Getting Started

After signing and confirming your account (by clicking the link in the email you’ll receive) you will be able to login. You’ll then need to connect your Facebook account; this is how they access your data.

Next you’ll be asked to enter “words or strings that you would like [SocioClean] to search for.” These are terms that you feel are questionable and/or inappropriate and do not want shown on your profiles. The next step is to view the results.

The Results

Depending on the size of your account and how many keywords you’ve entered, scanning could take a few minutes. This would probably be a good time to get a snack or drink. Next you’ll see wall posts that contain the keywords you’ve entered. You’ll see a chart (as pictured below) with the search word, text, date/time and the a link to view the post (in case you want to remove it).

You can also view status messages, photos and even groups that contain your keywords. That’s about it. So, I guess you’re probably wondering how to add the other sites.

Keep reading.

The Downside

While SocioClean’s homepage boasts that you can connect Facebook, Twitter and MySpace, it currently only supports Facebook! While the main image on the homepage (also pictured below) has icons for Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr and Linkedin, it currently only supports Facebook! I guess you see where this is going.

Though the homepage is a bit misleading, SocioClean is obviously still in the early stages and will be adding new features (and hopefully services) in the near future. While I love the concept, the functionality doesn’t seem quite there yet, but I do feel that it’s moving in the right direction.

What do you think?

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Cascaad – Tailored Social Streams that Match Your Interest

“Cascaad is an interest-centered social hub and networking service that helps you discover and join relevant conversations on the topics that you care about.” With the service you can filter your Twitter stream based on what you like and dislike. New content will then be recommended to you based on your interests. Conversations are also organized into “topic pages” which make them easier to follow. Between the website and the iPhone app, Cascaad is a great way to find people with similar interests, filter out unwanted tweets and join conversations that appeal to you.

To get started you’ll need to connect your Twitter and/or Facebook account. Although you do can connect your Facebook account, it does not seem to actually import your Facebook timeline — just tweets. You can then start going through your streams to like (thumbs up) or dislike (thumbs down) tweets. In the settings you can choose to automatically save liked tweets as favorites. You can also choose to forward liked tweets to your Facebook profile.

I like the clean setup of the site and ease of use. For starters, you can preview links (short or long) before clicking on them by clicking on “preview” underneath the post. You’ll see the title of the website along with the description (if available); this seems to be taken from the metadata.

You can also “share” and “comment” on tweets and post it to Twitter and/or Facebook; both actions are done inline so that you don’t lose your place in the timeline. The stream is not automatically updated but there is a notification on top that lets you know when and how many new messages are available. There is a status update box that lets you post updates on both Twitter and Facebook; there is also an integrated URL shortener.

The left hand column shows some interesting information as well. You can view your feed, filtered tweets (the most relevant tweets based on your interests), tracked items (if you have any), discover new content (tweets you might like due to their popularity in your extended social circle), see your liked items and also view what you’ve posted via Cascaad. There is also a section below the menu items called “highlighted topics”; these are trending topics within your social circle.

These are the basics of what Cascaad can do for you and definitely worth digging in deeper if you have the time. I’ve also tried the iPhone app and I find it very useful. You can view your feed, filtered items and discover new content as well as view trending topics in your social circle and search tweets all from the app.

I definitely feel that Cascaad makes a really great and simple Twitter app, plus helps increase productivity by filtering out tweets the tweets that don’t matter to you. It also makes it easier to zoom in on and keep up with the topics that genuinely interest you.

So, how will you use Cascaad?

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