Online Reputation Memo

MEMORANDUM
TO: Jeff Skidmore
FROM: Jill Little
DATE: December 8, 2009
SUBJECT: Online Reputations

Jeffery D. Skidmore Online Reputation

When I Google searched you, Jeffrey D. Skidmore the first link was to your blog the Draft Press Release 2: Image Management post. The second was your blog again, this time your Day 9 post about eating healthier and losing weight came up. I do not really understand why these two posts came up first before any of your other posts from your blog, but these two posts is what the world is seeing first about you.

After typing in Jeffrey D. Skidmore Utah State University I was able to locate your LinkedIn profile as the third link from the top of the first page. All I really found out from this was that you have made one connection on LinkedIn. Because I already knew you were a Public Relations Student at Utah State University, your viewable profile also had your expected graduation date at 2010.

Jeffrey D. Skidmore Utah State University also brought me to your Hard News Café article “Dents and dings worth the raw fun of rugby, players say” twice; making you the third, fourth, and fifth link under this search title.

When I searched for Jeffrey D. Skidmore Public Relations your blog post Draft Press Release 2: Image Management came up first on the list, and your LinkedIn profile was the third link available.

I would say that all of your online reputation is positive. One suggestion I would have for you is to update and really use you LinkedIn profile because it seems to come up regularly and it is a good place to store useful information about you for potential employers since they will already have multiple examples of your writing abilities.