Maintaining Your Online Reputation

         This morning, I am going to talk about something that is very important to keep in mind when you are using social media, your online reputation. Maintaining your online reputation is important because building it takes ages to build a good reputation, but it takes one blunder to destroy it. There are several things to remember when you are managing your online reputation but today we are just going to focus on two: try to keep your online voice consistent and make sure you know how to maintain a healthy influence with your followers.

         Keeping your voice consistent online may be harder than it sounds, but it is necessary because your distinctive online voice is part of your personal brand and can express your personality. I recommend trying to keep your voice genuine, but not offensive, just in case potential employers or clients decide to Google you to figure to learn more about you. One offensive, out of character tweet, like this one:

 can demolish your reputation and ruin your chances of being hired or even get you fired from your current job.

         Maintaining a healthy influence for your followers goes along the lines of maintaining a good voice, you should be consistent and use caution. Sure, you may think it is nice to follow someone who is following you, but if they don’t have use the tone you want to convey, then don’t follow them. You should try to keep an image that is true to your real self. Another way to maintain a healthy influence is to engage your audience, you can ask them questions, learn from them, and create original content for them to view. Your audience will appreciate it.

         I hope you found this advice helpful! If you would like to find out your degree of influence, then check your Klout score for free at https://klout.com . Feel free to comment on this post and on any of my other posts, I’d love to hear your guy’s feedback.