Part of the IUB Libraries' 'Surviving & Thriving in Academia' workshop series - 'Managing your social media presence' We discussed what our online “footprint” tells potential future employers and academic colleagues, and share tips for maximizing the networking potential of social media.

1. Savvy Management Part II:
Managing Your
Social Media
Presence
Juliet L Hardesty (@jlhardes)
Courtney Greene (@xocg)
Stacy Konkiel (@skonkiel)
#socialsavvy
Scholars Commons Series
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2. Use case #1
We’ll call her Julie
• Tweets at conferences
• Uses Facebook to keep up with
friends but hardly ever posts
• Connects on LinkedIn but not active
• Has Skyped before
• New-ish faculty still trying to shape a
scholarly social media presence
• Mostly interested in keeping
personal separate from professional
https://twitter.com/jlhardes/status/360478079916834816

3. Use case #2
We’ll call her Courtney
• Maintains a presence on many
social networks, but is
somewhat inconsistent in
posting – e.g., food & garden
drive her Twitter feed, followed
by conferences & events
• Uses Facebook & Google mostly
for personal connections, but
also manages event pages &
makes use of Google Hangouts
for professional purposes
• Initially desired to keep things
separate but hasn’t found a
good way to do so

4. Social media presents slices of you
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5. context … or the lack thereof

6. context … or the lack thereof

7. flickr
consider your online footprint

8. LinkedIn

9. LinkedIn
slideshare

10. facebook

11. facebook
Foursquare

12. Lanyrd

13. twitter

14. blogs
http://miriamposner.com/blog/how-did-they-make-that/

15. listservs
forums (fora?)

16. Google+
Skype

17. Now for altmetrics … over to Stacy!

18. Privacy
Separate email accounts
Know who might be able to read
your **** online
Manage privacy controls
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19. A final observation …
“Just because you can
doesn’t mean you should.”
-- Courtney’s mom*
*No, that is not her real picture. Both for the privacy reasons we just talked about AND because, well, just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

20. http://bit.ly/iub-socialsavvy
Thank you!