improving your online professional profile - august 2013
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You know you should be taking care of your professional identity online, looking after your digital ‘footprint’ and maintaining a record of all your experience and skills. Perhaps you’ve Googled your name to see what comes up, and set up the beginnings of a profile on LinkedIN etc…but you would like help in getting it all together? This presentation provides hints and tips that will set you on the right path of how to ‘professionalize’ your online identity and how to promote your own accomplishments in the best possible way.TRANSCRIPT
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Improving your online professional profile
Allison Miller, Vanguard Visions Consulting
Modbury & Salisbury
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You can get these slides from:
slideshare.net/vanguardvisions
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Session Overview
• What is a professional online identity?• Why is it important?• Google yourself• What are others using?• Public vs Private• Creating / Managing your own• What will you investigate further?• Workshop evaluation
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What is a professional online identity?
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Image: By Bodell & Hook, Creating & Managing an Online Identity – Can I Afford to Ignore it? http://www.slideshare.net/angeladh/managing-a-professional-identity-online
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Image: By Bodell & Hook, Creating & Managing an Online Identity – Can I Afford to Ignore it? http://www.slideshare.net/angeladh/managing-a-professional-identity-online
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Why is it important to have a professional
online identity?
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Changing world
Be Discoverabl
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Seek Endorseme
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Networking
Connecting &
Collaborating
Digital capability
Image: 'Publish Identity' - http://www.flickr.com/photos/33895652@N04/3157621212 - Found on flickrcc.net
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What happens when you Google yourself?
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Hands UpIf you currently
have a professional online
identity in some way?
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What are other people using?
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wendyperry.com.au/blog
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facebook.com/makemeablt
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facebook.com/gillian.aldridge.9
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twitter.com/leogaggl
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?
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instagram.com/rhysatwork
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flickr.com/people/learnscope/
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bit.ly/LilianAustinEpf
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sarahstewart-eportfolio.wikispaces.com/Home
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sites.google.com/site/coachcaroleeportfolio/
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linkedin.com/in/theother66
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Public vs Private Professional Online
Identities
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Public Private
Examples of work
PDP or Performance
Management Plan
Reflections
Blog, Flickr, Pinterest
Own website
LinkedIn CV
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Creating and managing your online professional identity
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What do you want your professional identity to say about you?
What information is already available online about you?
How will you keep your different identities separate?
What method will work best for you?
What space will work best for you?
Getting started
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Source: Bodell & Hook, (2009) Creating & Managing an Online Identity – Can I Afford to Ignore it? http://www.slideshare.net/angeladh/managing-a-professional-identity-online
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Other key considerations
Portability
Interoperability
Storage
Ownership
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What will you investigate further?
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Workshop evaluation
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