Picking A Social Media Identity
You’ve committed to a social media strategy; you have a rough idea of what you want to do. You have an idea of the name you are going to use. You sign up for Linked In, no problem. You move on to Twitter, enter your name, no problem. Now it’s on to Facebook, and what the heck? Someone there is already using the name you were going to use?
It’s an increasing problem, what with over 3oo social media sites (and more daily). How can you check a name to see if its available on most of the sites you intend to use? Or to lock it in even if you don’t anticipate using all of the sites right now?
We’re glad you asked.
Check out these two sites, that do name checks, and tell you if the name you were thinking of using is already booked on one of the sites. If not, go ahead and register away! Most of these are free, you know. Better to maintain a consistent identify across the board, even if you are going to limit your use to one or two sites.
Ready?
Bounce on over to Knowem.com
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A few minutes now might save you a lot of grief later, when you find the name you were using on Twitter to promote your business is being used by some unsavory sort on Flikr!
