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.
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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/
Editor's Notes
Online identity
Online presence
Personal brand
Web presence