This document provides guidance on organizing one's online identity. It discusses defining a digital identity and online CV. Key questions to consider include one's online presence and goals. Case studies show organizational diagrams for an online identity. A checklist is provided to evaluate one's university webpage and create an online publication identity through Google Scholar, Scholars Commons, and ORCID. Engaging in social media is also addressed if desired, with tips on privacy settings, consistency, and sharing contact information.

1. Organize your online identity
Shawna Reibling
Knowledge mobilization officer, ORS
@LaurierResearch
December 5, 2013

2. Agenda
1. Definitions and Questions to consider
2. Discussion of online identity
3. Case studies: organizational diagrams
4. Checklist
5. How to share your digital CV

3. Digital Identity
Digital identity… a set of data that uniquely
describes a person or a thing and contains
information about the subject's relationships to
other entities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_identity

4. Online CV
Online/digital CV… a version of your CV that
guides a viewer through your work experience,
papers, etc. in a systematic, non-linear way using
online tools.

5. Questions to consider
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Do I need a online presence?
Am I ready to be digitally social?
What is my online presence?
Am I starting from scratch?
Precautions & opportunities …

6. Questions to consider 2
• Who am I trying to reach?
• What do I want people to know about
me?
• How much time can I spend online?
• What resources do I have?

7. Your Online Identity
• What does your email address say
about you?
• What does your online name say about
you?
• What do you want your
online identity to be?
• Is this for professional or
@MrsKutcher
personal use?

8. Why am I crafting
a digital identity?
• Knowledge mobilization: Moving research
knowledge into active service
• Feedback on ideas
• What are others in your field working on today?
• Real-time conversation and network exchange
• Resource sharing
• Immediate awareness of information
• Conferences? Contacts? Partnerships?
• Event promotion?

9. Your Digital Identity

10. Cas e s t udi es :
Or gani z at i onal
di agr am
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11. Consistent identity message

12. How to share your identity
Research
papers
Best of
blog
Dissertation
Scholarly
publications
Twitter
delicious
blog
myspace
Webpage
flickr

13. Julie Mueller: Laurier Page

14. Julie Mueller: Links

15. Julie Mueller: External

16. Julie Mueller: External

17. Julie Mueller: External

18. Julie Mueller: Google Profile

19. Julie Mueller: Scholar search

20. Julie Mueller: Elements
• Laurier Page
• Laurier lab page/
personal page
• Blog Page
• Scholars Commons
• MakeItHappenWLU
• Twitter feed
• Media links
• Twitter Accounts
• Personal
• lab
• LinkedIn profile
• Google Scholar
profile

21. Julie Mueller: Elements
Laurier
webpage
Scholars
Commons
MakeithappenWLU
Laurier
lab page
Blog
Media
links
lab twitter
feed
Blog
LinkedIn
Google
Scholar
Profile
Work/
Personal
twitter
Lab
twitter

22. Twitter on Laurier webpage
wlu.ca/research/food or
www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=896

23. Findable Laurier webpage
wlu.ca/childlab

24. Childlab on Facebook

25. Kotsopoulos vs. childlab

26. Kotsopoulos vs. childlab

27. Checklist

28. Identity checklist
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Step 1. What is your identity?
Step 2. What do you want to share?
Step 3. Who do you want to share it with?
Step 4. Evaluate your Laurier webpage
Step 5. Create your online publication identity
(Google scholar, Scholar’s Commons, ORCID)
• Step 6. Engage in social media (if you want to)

29. Choosing an Identity
• What name do you currently use?(if
any)
• For Twitter: choose something short
• Do you use mobile devices? Is it easy
to type?
• Can you get a persistent alias

30. Figure out your identity

31. What do you want to share?
• Catalogue what you have and where it
is
• Organize it

32. Who will you share with?
• Create a “user profile”
– Where are they?
• Find where you want to update

33. Evaluate your Laurier webpage
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www.wlu.ca/faculty/name
i.e. wlu.ca/education/kmoreno
wlu.ca/childlab
Do you want it static or do you want to
use its features?

34. Google Scholar in action
Which citation gives “further reading” options?
Slide via msteeleworthy@wlu.ca

35. Slide via msteeleworthy@wlu.ca

36. Create online publication
identity: Google Scholar
• Step 1. go to www.google.com/profiles
• Step 2. Follow these instructions:
www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Google-Profile

37. Create online publication
identity: Scholars Commons
Scholars Commons @ Laurier is an online
collection of the intellectual, creative, and scholarly
output of the Wilfrid Laurier University community.
Scholars Commons creates a consolidated Web
presence for the dissemination, promotion, and
preservation of research and scholarly publishing
at Laurier.
The goal is to support open scholarly
communication, collaboration, and lasting visibility
and recognition for Laurier scholarship.

38. Create online publication
identity: Scholars Commons
• Step 1. Go to scholars.wlu.ca/
• Step 2. click on ‘My Account’

39. Researchers should also
register with ORCID ID
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ThomsonReuters
Elsevier
Springer
Wiley
Wellcombe Trust

40. Engage in Social Media
Listen before
starting a
conversation

41. Privacy Settings
• Set them up well
• They change
• Test them regularly

42. Help Others Find You
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Be consistent
Claim your space
Be recognizable
Start walking!
Profiles
ePortfolio
Blog
Domains
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sludgeulper/

43. Share your user names
Ask others & Talk about it
 Add to email signature
Add to Business cards
Write it on your name tag

44. Contact me
Web: wlu.ca/research/kmb
Email: sreibling@wlu.ca
Twitter:@LaurierResearch