Managing Your Social Media Profiles and Badges

Each social media site has its own badge. If you participate in a handful of them — Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Tripit, etc — it can be cumbersome to manage all your social media profiles and badges. DandyID.org is a site that helps you manage your social identities. It contains a list of 300+ social media services with profile fields for each.

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You enter your profile links for the services you participate in. Then you simply add a Dandy widget to your sidebar and voila, the widget pulls all of this information from DandyID and displays it in a nice list on your blog. (If you’re on WordPress.com or Blogger or just LinkedIn, DandyID also has widget code for you here.)

Rather than having multiple rectangular badge buttons of various sizes and shapes littering your sidebar, the DandyID widget keeps each social media button in an orderly list. I just implemented this on my site, if you look in my sidebar (see “My Profiles on Social Media Sites”).

By the way, looking over the 300 social media sites on DandyID.org is a bit overwhelming. It’s kind of cool just to click through to a few sites and see what has been conceived already.

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5 thoughts on “Managing Your Social Media Profiles and Badges”

  1. Kellie

    Holy mother of…
    Even if I don’t wind up using the service, they get a big fat thumbs up for including “transgender” in their gender options. Way to be forward thinking.

  3. Josh Catone

    Hi Tom,

    Thanks for writing about DandyID. You’re right that it’s a bit overwhelming sorting through all the supported sites. We recently added breaks at each new letter (since we’re sorting alphabetically) as a way to make it a bit easier to scroll through the list. However, we’re also working on implementing a better method of organizing services so it’s not quite so overwhelming to locate the services you use and enter your profile information.

    In the meantime, if you search for a service using the box at the top of the list of supported services, the list will automatically shorten and display only services that match your query — which makes it much easier to read. Certainly not an idea solution, but it’s a good way to make adding your identities a bit more manageable while we work in implementing our new organizational system. :)

    @Kellie: Thanks! As you can tell by the number of services we support, we’re clearly trying to be as inclusive as possible. ;)

    Josh Catone
    Community Manager, DandyID

  4. Patrick Andriessen

    Hi Tom,

    This is a great service. One of the few (if not the onlyone) that includes Hyves (which is big in the Netherlands). Great site and I will give it a serious try.

    @Josh: Great work! Keep it up!

    Cheers,

    Patrick Andriessen

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