Managing Your Digital Identity
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The document discusses managing one's digital identity. It recommends inventorying your online presence, considering your goals for personal branding or scholarly identification, and selecting appropriate tools like websites, blogs, social media, and scholarly profiles. It also discusses optimizing your presence, understanding privacy and security issues, and monitoring your digital identity over time. The overall aim is to thoughtfully curate one's digital identity for professional purposes like networking, collaboration and career advancement.
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Managing Your Digital Identity
- 1. Managing Your Digital Identity Rebecca K. Miller Virginia Tech Libraries NEFLIN Webinar September 30, 2014
- 2. Thanks! @rebeccakmiller www.rebeccakatemiller.com linkedin.com/in/rebeccakmiller rebeccakate.miller@gmail.com And so on…. Assistant Director, Learning Services Virginia Tech Libraries
- 7. Why? Getting hired, noticed, promoted, or tenured Networking and collaboration Share your work Eliminate misidentification Engage in meaningful professional discussion Embrace our professional imperative
- 9. Managing your digital identity Inventory your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Monitor your presence
- 10. Managing your digital identity Inventory your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Maintain your presence
- 12. Inventory your identity Find yourself Consider alternate people searches, such as Pipl, Spokeo, or DuckDuckGo
- 13. Managing your digital identity Locate your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Monitor your presence
- 14. Consider your goals Personal branding Scholarly identification
- 15. Goal: Personal branding Consciously cultivating an authentic image of your values, skills, abilities, and aspirations. “A personal brand is a by-product, not an end itself” (Bohyun Kim) “Personal brand is what people say about you when you leave the room” (Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com)
- 16. Goal: Scholarly identification As researchers and scholars, [we] face the ongoing challenge of distinguishing [our] research activities from those of others with similar names. [We] need to be able to easily and uniquely attach [our] identity to research objects such as datasets, equipment, articles, media stories, citations, experiments, patents, and notebooks. ORCID (http://orcid.org/content/initiative)
- 17. Consider your goals “The line between personal and professional no longer exists”
- 18. Managing your digital identity Locate your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Monitor your presence
- 19. Select and use available tools A digital identity toolkit includes: Your vision/mission/values statement(s) Consistent image(s) Consistent name Cohesive representation of personality Technology tools - strategized
- 20. Technology tools Websites/Portfolios Google Sites, Wix, Weebly, About.me, Re.vu Blogs Blogger, WordPress Social media Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube
- 24. Tools: Blogs
- 27. Another example
- 28. And, one more
- 30. Measuring scholarly impact NO ONE CAN READ EVERYTHING. We rely on filters to make sense of the scholarly literature, but the narrow, traditional filters are being swamped. However, the growth of new, online scholarly tools allows us to make new filters; these altmetrics reflect the broad, rapid impact of scholarship in this burgeoning ecosystem. We call for more tools and research based on altmetrics. --Jason Priem, Dario Taraborelli, Paul Groth, Cameron Neylon (altmetrics.org/manifesto)
- 31. Altmetrics
- 32. Tools: Scholarly identification www.altmetric.com • Altmetric.com • ImpactStory.org • Figshare.com
- 33. Tools: Scholarly identification Profiles: Google Scholar Citations Mendeley Academia.edu Nature Network Scholar Universe (ProQuest) ResearcherID (ThomsonReuters) ORC …and others
- 34. Managing your digital identity Locate your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Monitor your presence
- 35. Optimize your presence: Domains
- 36. Optimize your presence: Profiles & Engagement
- 37. Optimize your presence: Updates
- 38. Managing your digital identity Locate your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Monitor your presence
- 39. Understand privacy and security issues
- 40. Managing your digital identity Locate your identity Consider your goals Select and use available tools Optimize your presence Understand privacy and security issues Monitor your presence
- 41. Monitor your presence Alerts Statistics
- 42. Alerts
- 43. Statistics
- 44. Back to the professional imperative…
- 45. Questions?
- 46. Recommended Reading danah boyd on controlling your public appearance: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/09/07/controlling_you.html How to overcome what scares us about our online identities: http://chronicle.com/article/How-to-Overcome-What- Scares-Us/145967/ Confronting the myth of the digital native: http://chronicle.com/article/Confronting-the-Myth-of-the/145949/ 6 steps to managing your online reputation: http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/03/14/6-steps-to-managing- your-online-reputation/ Ten simple steps to create and manage your online identity: http://crln.acrl.org/content/72/1/31.full Personal branding for librarians: http://www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/article/personal-branding-librarians Rise of altmetrics: http://chronicle.com/article/Rise-of-Altmetrics-Revives/139557/
- 47. Thanks, again! @rebeccakmiller www.rebeccakatemiller.com linkedin.com/in/rebeccakmiller rebeccakate.miller@gmail.com And so on….
- 48. Image Credits Go Google Yourself t-shirt: http://mediaplusme.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/google-yourself-you- might-not-like-what-you-find/ Digital Identity: https://www.flickr.com/photos/93243105@N03/8477734222/ Professional Imperative: https://www.flickr.com/photos/72211182@N00/9731334346/ Inventory Your Identity: https://www.flickr.com/photos/20587522@N00/2979635819/ Questions: https://www.flickr.com/photos/42788859@N00/318947873/
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- Online identity Online presence Personal brand Web presence