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This weekend I read a blog by Will Richardson titled Making Kids "Googlable" and what matters is that kids are giving themselves good job opportunitys and a good reputation on-line and on their record. In the blog he talked about how he has been asking principles if when they were looking to hire someone like a new teacher, have they ever "Googled" them. Most of them said that they have and some said they even searched them on Myspace. I don't think that that is such a bad thing to do because they were just looking for positives and negatives about the person. He also said in the article:

But then I ask them something along these lines: So if you are Googling people who you might want to teach at your school, what are you doing to insure the kids in your classrooms are “Googled well” when they go for their own interviews? And I don’t just mean telling them NOT to post certain things online. I mean what are you doing to help students shape their online portfolios so that when their future employers or future mates run the search, what they find is not just a lack of negatives but a potential plethora of positives? Not surprisingly, the answer is basically “not much.”

I think that it would be very helpful for someone to have pluses for them when they are searched on the internet. A lot of people who are looking to hire you will probably search you to see what good and bad things might come up. If you have bad things that come up when someone searches you then most people won't want to hire you any more. So it is important to have a strong reputation and positive things that show up when you are searched.