I use Google Reader a lot and I share and send links with it to my Blog, FriendFeed, Twitter and email. It’s all automatic, but one little thing nagged me, my Google email address username always showed up as my name on my Google Shared Items list and in any E-Mail messages I generated from Reader.

I finally figured out how to change that. Google keeps a “nickname” for your account and sure enough, that was set to default to my username and that is what was being used for the Reader functions.

To change your nickname to a real useful name, go to your profile management page or click this:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount?hl=en

Under your list of email addresses, click the edit link or go directly there with this link:

https://www.google.com/accounts/EditUserInfo?hl=en

Change your NickName and click save. Now this name will be used for your Google Shared Items page and emails sent from GReader.