So tell me, have you ever Googled your name? Come on, I know you have. Who doesn’t? It can be pretty interesting and even entertaining to see what’s out there – both what you have authored and what others are saying about you… both the informed and uninformed. 
And as I recently made another cruise through the pages that donned my name, I was reminded of something very important:
Content can live forever on the Internet.
This is a critical piece of information, especially for those who are new to the web and haven’t practiced restraint when they have decided to spout their opinion, weighed in on a hot debate or maybe surfed the web and contributed something when they were a little less than coherent. Or perhaps wrote and published some articles that had wrong information in them. It happens. But, do you really want this stuff following you around for the next 50 years? I think we all agree that when you publish something on your blog, on a PR site, on Twitter or wherever, its critical to make sure its reviewed a few times… by a couple different people… before you launch it to the world.
But what I really want to stress are the benefits of this “forever available” online content: Continue reading →
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