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title: "Managing Your Social Media Profiles and Badges"
date: 2009-03-08
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# Managing Your Social Media Profiles and Badges
![DandyID](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/dandyid1.jpg)

You enter your profile links for the services you participate in. Then you simply add a [Dandy widget](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dandyid-services/) 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](http://www.dandyid.org/beta/extend).)

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](http://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.