Jean Paul Sartre once said that hell is other people, but New York Times technology journalist, Edward Rothstein, reshaped this idea and adapted it to our fast changing times : “Sartre had it only partly right. Hell is not just other people, it's other people's home pages." And he is absolutely right! Online Reputation Management (ORM) or Online Identity Management (OIM) can prove this better than any other field.

Furthermore, Canada’s first female Prime Minister, Kim Campbell, stated "If you don’t like bad news, you should get out of the leadership business. Your job is to hear as much bad news as there is out there and to figure out ways of dealing with it.” Online Reputation Management Solutions is happy to provide to our visitors a collection of helpful, free Online Reputation Management / Online Identity Management tools. A proactive attitude can make all the difference. Monitor your name, business, product feedback, service, competitor, try to respond properly and earn step by step the trust of your stakeholders. However, if you are dealing with a serious Online Identity Management issue feel free to contact us and request a free quote. Online Reputation Management Solutions hopes you will find these free ORM tools useful and if so, please stay tuned for more great resources coming soon!

Google Alerts - Monitor the Web for interesting new content

Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic. Just enter the topic you wish to monitor, then click preview to see the type of results you'll receive. You can monitor your personal online reputation by choosing your name as query, you can monitor online a brand, a product, product feedback, a service, your favorite sports team or your competitors.

Twitter Alerts - Free Twitter alerts by mail

If you love Twitter, you'll love TweetBeep! Keep track of conversations that mention you, your products, your company, anything, with hourly updates! You can even keep track of who's tweeting your website or blog, even if they use a shortened URL (like bit.ly or tinyurl.com). Now, how cool is that?! Great for Online Reputation Management, catching all your @replies and @mentions, finding job/networking opportunities, keeping up on your favorite hobby, and more!

Technorati - the world's most popular blog aggregation system

Monitor the conversations in the blogsphere with Technorati, a real-time search engine dedicated to the blogosphere. You can search your name, brand, company, CEO etc. and then subscribe to the results using the RSS button. Technorati is a leading blog search engine and it indexes millions of blog posts in real time and surfaces them in seconds.

SocialMention - Real-time social media search and analysis

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and micro blogging services. Social Mention Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant social media results (blog, micro blog, etc.) based on your choice of search phrase.

FriendFeeed - Great social aggregator

Monitor social media with FriendFeed: you can conduct searches by inputting a term - personal name, brand, product, company - in the search box. Easily monitor the most important social networks (YouTube, Delicious, Twitter, blog, and Flickr) with one tool: Friendfeed.

Naymz - innovative Reputation Network

Naymz is designed to make it easy for you to control of what people find about you on the web. Next level networking. Join the network to promote your good name and maximize your professional opportunities.

Online Identity Management - Take down content, pictures, videos & report abuse

MySpace – under ‘Please select a topic’, choose ‘Your Safety and Privacy’

Facebook – the best way to flag abusive content on the site is to use the "Report" links that appear near the content itself. When a report is submitted, Facebook will review it and take any action warranted by their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. E-mail abuse [at] facebook [dot] com with your complaints.

Blogger.com and Blogspot.com – click here to Report a Service Violation. Here are some examples of content we will not remove unless provided with a court order:

Personal attacks or alleged defamation
Parody or satire of individuals
Distasteful imagery or language
Political or social commentary

WordPress.com – you have to select one of following to route your complaint.

LiveJournal.com – just use the LiveJournal Report Abuse form

YouTube – use YouTube’s Report User Harassment form.