Managing your professional identity The Web Sessions Delivered by Web Services, University of Bath

How you are seen by your colleagues How you are seen by your peers How you are seen by the general public Traditional identity http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/2214630924/

How you are seen by your colleagues

How you are seen by your peers

How you are seen by the general public

By your conduct By the things you say By the things others say about you By what you write By the way you write it Through… face to face, papers, peer review, presentations… How is that gauged? http://www.flickr.com/photos/mag3737/1997114236/

By your conduct

By the things you say

By the things others say about you

By what you write

By the way you write it

Through… face to face, papers, peer review, presentations…

Professional and personal have fused together thanks to…

Social networking particularly has changed the way we interact…

Your friends; who they are / what they do Your personal life / interests Identity now extends to… http://www.flickr.com/photos/dan_dan/279764886/

Your friends; who they are / what they do

Your personal life / interests

A window into your private life (But it isn’t always a bad thing!) http://www.flickr.com/photos/fuenteshe/382870861/sizes/o/

What you say… How you say it… “ It aint what you do it’s the way that you do it ”

Current employers Prospective employers Students Colleagues Peers Consider who might look you up http://www.flickr.com/photos/schoey/2129866868/

Current employers

Prospective employers

Students

Colleagues

Peers

Consider this… Choose your friends wisely http://www.flickr.com/photos/cerpntaxt/42348941/

You sign up to social networking site You add your colleagues You also add your friend You keep it professional / managed Your friend finds a pic he took a couple of years ago and adds it to his page tagging it “ Bob Smith – night to remember…” You are Bob Smith… http://www.flickr.com/photos/bre/532019377/

You sign up to social networking site

You add your colleagues

You also add your friend

You keep it professional / managed

Your friend finds a pic he took a couple of years ago and adds it to his page tagging it “ Bob Smith – night to remember…”

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DO lock down your profile if you’re not comfortable exposing your private life DO choose your friends carefully If you wish you can: lock down your photos and your wall Social Networking http://www.flickr.com/photos/holster/195031415/

DO lock down your profile if you’re not comfortable exposing your private life

DO choose your friends carefully

If you wish you can:

lock down your photos

and your wall

Blogging: Using the blog to ‘vent’ against employers/colleagues can go against you Twittering: Builds a picture of your life (in and outside work) Getting lost in informality… http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricoslounge/38351363/

Blogging: Using the blog to ‘vent’ against employers/colleagues can go against you

Twittering: Builds a picture of your life (in and outside work)

Consider what you say Be aware what others may publish Understand Data Protection http://www.flickr.com/photos/11382496@N03/2207621281/ Know your rights…

Consider what you say

Be aware what others may publish

Understand Data Protection

Consider… What you say; on comments, blog posts, forums, personal websites, social networks How much information you make publicly available; check privacy policies on sites http://www.flickr.com/photos/ppdigital/2054207285/

HUGE benefits to all these tools Can be used in a positive way This culture shift isn’t such a bad thing But BE CAUTIOUS

HUGE benefits to all these tools

Can be used in a positive way

This culture shift isn’t such a bad thing

But BE CAUTIOUS

We all use them We just choose what we’re comfortable exposing… and how we wish to present ourselves

We all use them

We just choose what we’re comfortable exposing… and how we wish to present ourselves

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