BUILDING YOUR DIGITAL PRESENCEAmber M. Buck | University of Alabama

1. BE PROACTIVE➤ Search committees will Google you. Make sure

they find something you created. ➤ Build a professional website - Reclaim Hosting

(https://reclaimhosting.com) - $25/yr ➤ Or use your institution's resources ➤ Important as digital rhetoricians to have your

own domain, not me.wordpress.com or me.wix.com

2. BRAND YOURSELF

➤ Present a consistent message: what kind of researcher are you? What kind of teacher are you? What connects these together?

➤ Make it visible: decide which social media sites you want to use: LinkedIn, academia.edu, Twitter, about.me, etc.

➤ Use your connections strategically: connect to other scholars on those sites to network digitally

➤ Double it: Use profile page/about page your institution provides to list your information and link to your site

➤ Privacy: Carefully manage privacy settings on more personal social media

3. CURATE YOUR WORK

➤ Scholarship: link to publications, presentations, other media and projects

➤ Teaching: syllabi, class websites, etc. Craft this information for an outside audience

➤ Other: Any other content, creative projects, teaching, and volunteer work that you consider important

THANKS!

➤ amberbuck.net/media