Surviving and Thriving Online 2011

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This talk outlines ways to make yourself known effectively on the Internet and create the image you want rather than the one that is built by your friends or your travels.

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Surviving and Thriving Online 2011

Pat Sine

Information Technologies – Client Support &

Services

University of Delaware

Image source: http://flickr.com/photos/gaetanlee/421949167/

NOW:

Public by default; Private through effort.

THEN:

Private by default; Public through effort.

What do we know about the

Internet?

1. The Internet never forgets!

The Internet Archive or The Wayback Machine

The Library of Congress is archiving all

public tweets since 2006.

2. Search tools scour all of the Internet for facts. And they get better every day!

Source: http://xkcd.com/802/

3. Computers are really good at sorting through lots of data.

4. Anything can be copied, edited and redistributed.

Let’s try that!

5. The web is full of “Invisible Audiences.”

Take Control!

1. Stay Safe

Internet Safety 2011

• Keep your computer SAFE

• Keep AWAY from dark corners

• Keep TELLING

What are the online threats in 2011?

• Online sexual solicitations

• Cyberbullying

•Your classmates

•You

2. Be Aware

Keep CONTROL of your

connections and your status

updates

• 88% of universities rate social media

important in evaluating prospective

students.

• As much as 64% of businesses make

hiring decisions by what they find on

social networks.

• Your prospective date will Google

you.

Internet Safety 2011

• Keep your computer SAFE

• Keep AWAY from dark corners

• Keep TELLING

• Keep CONTROL of your contacts and

your status updates.

• 92% of U.S. children have an online

persona by the time they are 2 years old.

• Some have an online persona before

they are born.

• 23% of sonograms are actively published

and shared on social networks and blogs.

Passive Digital Footprint

• Your email account

• Online services

• Mentions by others online

• Your searches

If you are not the

customer, you are

the product!

Take Action

Show the world.

• Start by getting a unique name that

you can be proud of.

Chronicle of Higher Education Website, 11/14/2008

Show the world.

• Use the tools of the web to build your

online persona.

Page Rank

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_rank

Tools to show the world.

• YouTube

• Wikipedia

• Google Site

• Your own web page

• Facebook

• LinkedIn

• Flickr

• Twitter

Facebook

LinkedIn

Public Profi le

Private Profi le

Flickr

Wikipedia

Twitter

YouTube

Fanfiction.net

Come on, Pat! Real kids couldn’t do

that!

Meet Matt Dermody

Meet Laura Stockman

Meet Tavi Gevinson

'Style Rookie' Tavi Gevinson

Back to you…

To do today!

• Watch what you do to yourself

• Find a name that works for you and

claim it!

• Start collecting and linking on a

Google Site or your own site or blog

“Life is not about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself.”

George Bernard Shaw

New Yorker Magazine, July 5, 1993

Source: http://shrinkingvioletpromotions.blogspot.com/2010/10/online-persona-workshop-week-two-many.html

“I want to believe that my online

persona is who I am, but somewhat

self-edited and on my best behavior,

and not a carefully constructed

caricature  of the person I wish I were.”

Maurilio Amorimhttp://www.maurilioamorim.com

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