Developing Your Digital Identity
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This document discusses developing a personal and professional digital identity. It outlines examining your digital identity by searching for yourself online and determining your personal and professional strengths. It recommends reflecting on how you want to be known and perfecting your profile on professional networks like LinkedIn. Maintaining internal networks involves defining your unique skills and passions, while external networking focuses on common ground and following up. Overall, the document provides guidance on crafting an online presence that accurately reflects your real identity.
Developing Your Digital Identity
- 1. DEVELOPING YOUR PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL DIGITAL IDENTITY @chris_trudell Chris Trudell; M.Ed New Student and Family Programs Robbie Fitzwater; B.S. Clemson Public Affairs, Marketing Services @robbiefitz
- 2. OUTLINE โข Networks and Relationships โข Internet Identity โBreakdownโ โข Knowing your digital self โข Developing your digital identity / The power Google โข Identity reflection online and offline / professional / private โข Networking Relationships (Internal & External) โข Examples of Internet identity & networks
- 4. 4 RULES OF THE INTERNET โข Real space (environment) โข Real time โข Real people โข Reality
- 5. What is a Network, and why is it important?
- 7. What Networks Look LikeThe โDunbar Numberโ is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. LinkedIn, 1,000+Us, about 150
- 8. Mark Grandovetter Sociology Professor at Stanford. Wrote about th Strength of Weak Ties
- 9. Power of Networks Your Reference Group Community World 100โs 1,000โs A lot!
- 10. How do we take this blank canvas and make something of
- 11. INTERNET IDENTITY โBREAKDOWNโ โข Three major ways to look at โInternet identityโ 1. Digital Identity: Data (text, pictures, video, etc) 2. Online Identity: Data & Behavior 3. Internet Identity: Data Behavior :: Identity
- 12. DIGITAL IDENTITYโข The data that uniquely describes a person or a thing & contains information about the subject (text, links, photos, videos, content). โข A critical problem in cyberspace is knowing with whom one is interacting โ because weโre interacting with data โข Currently there are no ways to precisely determine the identity of a person in digital space (data can be manipulated) โข Even though there are attributes (data) associated to a personโs digital identity, these attributes or even identities can be changed, masked or trashed & new ones created
- 13. ONLINE IDENTITY โข User establishes in online communities & websites. โข Choice, decisions, reflection, & participation โข It can also be considered as an actively constructed presentation of oneself (behavior). โข Relationship to a certain social group(s) they are a part of online. Some can even be deceptive about their identity (but that still โtells usโ something about a personโs identity). โข The combination of data, behavior, association, & expression
- 14. INTERNET IDENTITY โข Online identity โ personal self-concept as it relates to the Internet (cf. Identity (social science)) โข Internet = environment โข How we relate to the environment (physical, social, emotional) โข Digital identity โ a culmination of data that uniquely describes a person or a thing & contains information about the subjectโs relationships to other entities โข (Note: the interconnected reliance to above)
- 15. KNOWING A DIGITAL SELFโข The digital environment is a real and influential space โข Critically influencing self-concepts | self- perception โข Critically influencing relationships | perceptions ofโฆ โข Critically influencing ideas, values, & creation of new knowledge
- 16. Step 1) Google Yourself
- 18. DOUBLE-CLICK TO KNOW โข Know your DIGITAL IDENTITY โข Texts, links, hashtags, photos, videos, etc. โข Know your ONLINE IDENTITY โข Associations, communities, interactions, connections (likes, retweets, follows, etc.), etc. โข Should be able to define your digital and online self at all times
- 19. A TRUE REFLECTION ? โข Does a digital & online identity accurately reflect who a person is ? โข Deleting / withholding content โข Balance between quantity and quality โข Balance = congruency
- 20. Step 2) Determine your Digital Identity What are your personal strengths? What are your professional strengths?
- 21. Step 2) Determine your Digital Identity Personal Strengths Professional Strengths Look for overlap | Look for congruency
- 22. Step 2) Determine your Digital Identity Online & Offline Congruency Personal & Professional Congruency YOU
- 24. PROFESSIONAL PRESENCE VS. SIMPLY PRESENT โข Professionalism & Internet Identity โข Subdivided profiles issue โข Adding students? Why not? Why we shouldโฆ โข Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram โข Google yourself frequently | memorize your network โข Aim for congruency in all platforms | environments
- 25. STEP 3) REFLECT ON YOUR IDENTITY โขWhat do you want to be known for? โขHow do you want to represent yourself? โขDo you want to be a generalist or a subject matter expert? โขWho do you aspire to be like and why? โขWhen asked what do you do, can you answer it concisely?
- 26. PERFECT YOUR PROFESSIONAL MEDIA โข Starting with Create Your Profile: LinkedIn 1.Add a photo 2.Fill out Summary 3.Claim your custom URL 4.Experience (add Clemson University as employer), Education, 5.Organizations, honors, certifications, projects 6.Follow influencers you are interested in 7.Connect with others!!! 8.Engage with and share content in your news feed
- 28. INTERNAL Connecting โข What do you do? โข Define what makes you unique (skills, passions, finding your โnessโ) โข Define your digital identity (clean up, FB and Twitter, set up LN) Growing โขTelling your story (whatโs interesting to you, what are you doing, reading, etc..) Maintaining โข Keep learning, and growing (Read!!!) โข Share what gets you excited and why (This is your journey, take everyone else along with you.)
- 29. EXTERNAL Connecting โข Common Ground (passion, school, work, etcโฆ) โข Do homework (know who your meeting) Growing โข Connect on LinkedIn โข Follow Up (thank them for a great conversation) Maintaining โข Share something that makes you think of the person (article, story, book) โข Introduce them to someone โข Celebrating others (Return on Relationships)
- 30. 4 RULES OF THE INTERNET โข Real space (environment) โข Real time โข Real people โข Reality
- 31. VISUALS & CONTEXTโข Seeing your Internet Identity โข Sharing personal examples โข LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Etc. โข MentionMapp, SociLab โข MATRIX: โข 1 an environment or material in which something develops; a surrounding medium or structure