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White Pages Are Good at the Barber Shop

Remember the good old days, when White Pages was used for two things –doing a people search and boosting your little brother up on the chair at the hair cutters. Well, White Pages should be grateful that kids still need haircuts because everyone knows that people search has gotten a ...

Online Identity in the News Week of 3/16/09

Economic Crunch Means a Boom in Roommates Due to the horrible economy people are looking for ways to save and help each other out, and for many that means moving in with roommates. Whether couples have spare rooms to rent out to earn some extra money or for working singles ...

Online Identity in the News Week of 3/9/09

Internet Safety Act Would Make Us Less Safe Calling for a new law that would require all internet access providers to keep identity records of their users for up to 2 years. So all libraries, restaurants, and cafes with WiFi would have to maintain records of who and when the ...

Navigation Update

We've made an update that makes it easier to get directly to your state background checking resources. The links below would get you direct to any state background check page on our site. Please feel free to visit the page and then bookmark your state: Background Check Resources By State: AL | ...

Best Interview Tip Ever: Run a Background Check Before the Interview

This is actually a great tip, but we have moved the post to a new location. Visit Background Check Your Employer to learn more.

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 ...

Protecting the Integrity of your Organization - A Story of Janet , Exxon Mobil, and Twitter

Earlier this month, The Houston Chronicle published a story about someone named “Janet,” who has been posing as an employee of Exxon Mobil online. The story focuses on her Twitter posts, where she claimed to represent the company. Ironically, “Janet” seemed to be very effective at communicating positive messages about ...

We’re at Web2.0 Expo NYC, Come Say Hi!

If you are in New York City this week, you are most likely here for the Web2.0 Expo at the Jacob Javitz Center.  If you want to talk identity or are just curious about what BeenVerified does, come say hi!  We are at the "Long Tail Pavilion" with our friends ...

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, ...

AIM Down?

We use AIM instant messenger almost exclusively in the office for communication and it seems the entire AIM network is down right now. Very weird to see only 1 or two people on my buddy list at the moment, since I am back up but it seems most people are ...