Egoboo is a colloquial expression for the pleasure received from public recognition of voluntary work. Of course, first you’ve got to find where you are being recognized. Reporters, researchers, and podcasters interview me about informal learning and its application in business every week. (I’m usually good for a juicy quote.) Perhaps one in a dozen interviewers fulfill their promise to tell me when their stories appear in print or on the web. This makes it tough to respond to questions and comments.
Before social media got hot, you could use simple search engines to see what people were saying about you, for example:
Google blog search “Jay Cross”
Tracking where you’re mentioned is tougher now that conversation on the web takes place on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, and numerous other flows. New apps are springing up that tap these sources, among them:
I like the way Feedly presents findings but note that it pulled in these photos for “Jay” “Cross.”
As I mentioned earlier this month, I see a lot of potential in searches that draw from a select subset of the web:
Communities and Network Connection
These selective searches cull out references to Jay Cross the author of Dynamic Skiametry (1911), Jay Cross the president of the New York Jets, Jay Cross the professor of veterinary medicine, and the Jay Cross who painted this:
If somone’s trying to find me, I send them to jaycross.com, which features this list:
Flickr/jaycross
Facebook/Jay Cross
Linkedin/jaycross
Twitter/jaycross
YouTube/jakeross1
Del.icio.us/jaycross
Friendfeed/jaycrossIntegration is on the way, but in the meantime, each of these links serves up a different slice of the pie.
Do you ever look for egoboo? What services work for you?
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Hi. I am one of the co-founders of feedly. I will open a bug so that we can try to increase the relevance of the image which are served in the explore page. This is work in progress and we appreciate your feedback!
Great ideas! I also wanted to add that I use Google Alerts to track what is being said about myself, my blog, or my company