Managing Your Professional Identity

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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/

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/

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/

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/

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/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/st-stev/2174536378/sizes/l/

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/

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/

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; 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

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

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