Archive for the ‘Online Identity’ Category

Online Identity in the News Week of 3/2/09

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 3/01/2009: Background Checks Are The Final Step Before Hiring For ...

Online Identity in the News Week of 2/23/09

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/23/2009: Consumers Are Unwilling to Sacrifice Convenience for Security, Despite ...

Online Identity in the News- Week of 2/16

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity affects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/16/2009: Facebook's Zuckerberg Calms Privacy Fears Over TOS Change Anything you ...

Online Identity in the News- Week of 2/9

Each week we post stories from around the web and media that detail how identity effects society and its importance. As always, feel free to post links you have found in the comments. Here is the roundup for the week of 2/9/2009: Fake Social Network Profiles: a New Form of Identity ...

The Issue of Online Identity, Anonymity and the Movement Toward a Safer Social Web

The Internet Safety Technical Task Force led by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University recently released a 278 page final report examining the extent of the threats children face on social networks. The report was the culmination of a year of meetings between dozens of academics, ...

What to Look For In 2009…or What Companies Will Survive the Coming “Economic Storm”

In recent weeks, we have seen a ton of commentary from people we hold in extremely high regard when it comes to managing and running successful startups or businesses. Jason Calacanis seemed to be the first to tip with this, and then we had this, this, this, and the one ...

The Problem with LinkedIn: Why “Peer Based Verification” Has its Limits

Meet Janet Jones. She is the Chief Marketing Officer of BeenVerified, she is a former marketing executive at Goldman Sachs and a Harvard Business School alum. Why don't you check her out on LinkedIn? Better yet, why don't you check out who is in Janet's ...

In Times Of Downsizing, BeenVerified Can Help HR and Jobseekers

A quick scan of your RSS feed tells you that parts of the American workforce are taking significant hits. In the last couple of days alone, Hewlett-Packard announced they will cut their workforce by just under 25,000. For those of us keeping a watchful eye on Wall Street, ...

Top 10 Problems with Sharing Personal Information Online

We are in the process of taking a good hard look at the way personal information is currently shared online. When we speak of personal information, we are referring to your name, age, date of birth, education, work experience, credit score, address, professional licenses etc. etc. etc. Basically, the things ...

BeenVerified Selected to Present at The Hatchery Event NYC

We are honored to have been selected to speak at the upcoming Hatchery event here in New York City. The Hatchery is the brain child of Dr. Yao-Hui Huang (a.k.a Dr. Business) and has been labeled the "American Idol of Startups".  We have personally attended a few Hatchery events and ...