Are you letting just anyone edit your profile?

May 2, 2008

Wink.com is special because it helps you create a great profile of yourself and integrate all your other web accounts and profiles together. If you have the feed from your blog, twitter account or other kind of RSS driven account, you can actually tell wink to display your last few updates as well.

Chances are you are already in Wink. Do a search before you sign up, as they may have imported your information from another source.

Downsides of Wink
One downside of wink is that there is more advertising than I like on a site like that.

Another downside is that it defaults to allow anyone to edit your profile. If you are going to take the time to set up a profile, you want to lock it down so only you can update it.

To lock your profile, follow these steps:

Choose My Home at the top right.
On the lower right under dashboard, choose profile settings.
Under permissions, change the edit permissions to only yourself.

One other problem we ran into is that it works better with the Firefox browser instead of Internet Explorer.

Wink can be very beneficial in helping you with your online visibility for your name.

Be sure to add lots of websites under “Where I am online.” As your wink profile ranks better, it will also help those pages rank better and drive some traffic.

- Thank You!

Posted by Ron McDaniel | Filed Under Blog