manage your online reputation - interim edition

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Manage your Online reputation

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overview


What is your online reputation?

Why manage your online reputation?

How to manage your online reputation

What is your online reputation?


Anything that’s posted by you or about you on the web.

Facebook Twitter Linkedin blogs

pinterest About.me Comments images

Examples:

instagram shapchat Google +



MAINTAIN YOUR PERSONAL BRAND YOUR BRAND IS THE PROMISE OF AN EXPERIENCE IT’S WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU’RE NOT

IN THE ROOM. WHAT YOU SAY ON YOUR RESUME OR IN AN INTERVIEW

MUST MATCH WITH THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE ABOUT YOU ONLINE.



Who is looking for you online?

Employers ( jobs & internships ) Graduate school admission committees 90% are performing background checks online



Nearly half look at your online presence before deciding if they’ll contact you.



2/3 have rejected candidates based on what they saw on social media.



The reasons employers have rejected candidates based on social media

How to mange your online reputation


Google yourself Yahoo yourself

BING yourself

Go at least five pages deep



Use several iterations: o First name last name

o First name middle initial last name

o First name maiden name

o First name last name city and state

o First name last name title

o First name last name arrest ( or other trouble words )



Go deeper than search engines with free tools: Pipl.com

Reppler BackTweets Simplewa.sh Photobox MANY OTHERS OUT THERE



Get rid of the bad stuff

Remove anything in your control Ask others to remove for you If you can’t get rid of it, bury it with good stuff



Remove facebook posts/comments/photo tags, etc. o go to Facebook.com/YOURNAME, click on the “Activity Log” link in the

lower right of your profile picture to get your Activity Log where

you can review:

o Posts you’ve been tagged in

o Photos you’ve been tagged in

o Your Likes (you might have liked something inappropriate)

o Your Comments (you might have made inappropriate comments)



Remove facebook comments you’ve made

o Navigate to Facebook.com and log in to your account.

o Locate the comment you posted under someone else's comment

that you want to remove. You can find a list of your activity on

your profile if you can't find it

o Hold your mouse over the comment and then click the "X" when

it appears. Click "Remove" when prompted by Facebook to

remove your comment.



Remove photo tags:

Click on the photo then click “Options” under it. Choose Report/Remove

Tag to remove the tag and/or ask the person who posted it to take it

down.

You can remove tags from multiple photos at once:

1. In your activity log, click “Photos” in the left-hand column

2. Select the photos you'd like to remove a tag from

3. Click “Report/Remove Tags”

4. Click “Untag Photos” to confirm

Remember, when you remove a tag, that tag will no longer appear on the post or photo, but that post or

photo is still visible to the audience it's shared with other places on Facebook.



How to remove “Likes”: o To unlike a piece of content that you or a friend has posted, just

click the Unlike link that appears beneath the content itself.

o To unlike a Page (which will remove it from your profile/timeline),

go to the Page, click on the gear or sprocket icon below the Page's

cover; select Unlike.

o Or use your Activity page and click on Likes on the left. You’ll see

all of yours. Click on the pencil icon to Unlike it or remove it

from your Timeline.



How to remove Posts: When you delete something, you remove it from your Page permanently.

To delete a post on your Page: o Hover over the post on your Page's timeline

o Click the pencil icon in the upper- right corner

o Select Delete Post...

o Confirm that you want to delete this post from your Page by

clicking Delete Post. This does NOT remove the post from the

author’s timeline.



You can only delete your Tweets; you cannot delete other users' Tweets.

How to delete a Tweet or Retweet:

o Visit your Profile page.

o Locate the Tweet or Retweet you want to delete.

o Hover your mouse over the o message and options will appear. Click on Delete.

Note: Deleted Tweets often linger in Twitter search; they will clear with time. You cannot bulk-delete. You can only delete Tweets manually, one by one.



How to delete multiple Tweets:

Or if you have a TON of Tweets to review, log in to Twitter, click the gear

icon in the upper-right, click on “Edit Profile” directly under your photo,

then click “Account” on the left. Scroll down to “Request Your Archive.”

Twitter will send you an e-mail with a link to a zip file of all your

tweets. Download the zip file and open it. Double-click the “Index.html”

and you’ll be able to browse all your tweets online. If you click on a

single Tweet, you’ll be taken to your account where you can delete it.



How to get a fresh start on Twitter: If you're looking to get a fresh start on your Twitter

account without losing your username, the best way

to do this is to create another account with a

temporary username, and then switch the username

between your current account and the new account.

Google Twitter’s article on How to Change Your

Username for more info.



Control your online presence

Three choices:

Wide open: no privacy settings Locked down: no online presence Managed: control what you want seen



A managed presence includes: Linkedin account Facebook privacy settings Using twitter wisely Blogs that support your brand Careful comments – RESPECTFUL,

GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT monitoring

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