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Managing Your Digital Presence
• Google yourself, your family, include Google Images• The focus is maintaining a good reputation.• If you have a bad digital presence, it can be fixed but it does take some work.• These are some tips to get you going on building and maintaining a positive online presence.• Check privacy settings• Get your social media accounts.o Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeo Increase your activity levels on these platforms. Figure out which work best for you• Assume nothing is private. Screenshots are forever.• Don’t argue with people online• Buy your domain name (and your kids)• Consider starting a blog! I have a free 30 minute tutorial about how to start a wordpress blog step by step https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvSjbKrXcqE
Full transcript:
Managing Your Digital Presence
00:00:00 - 00:05:06
Get ready for another episode of the Tech Regular People podcast with me Heather Mafi. This is the podcast I. Answer Your Tech Questions. You've always wanted to ask in a fun and entertaining way. You can easily ask me your questions by going to www dot. Go ASK HEATHER DOT COM. Let's get started with today's podcast. All right before we get started. I wanted to share a little story with you, so it is summer here already in Arizona. It's hitting hundred degrees every day, and so I am no longer recording my podcast in my bedroom closet because there's no air conditioning vent in there, so I'm in my office right now and the air conditioner is right outside my office wall. So I'M GONNA do my best to try to edit out the low pitched hum, but if you hear it in this podcast, that's what that is, so that'll be around til probably November so when we shut off the air conditioning so today on the episode I WanNa, Talk About Managing Your digital presence. So in the last episode we talked about digital spring cleaning, and the things that you can do this time of year to just Kinda of clean up your digital clutter. Clean up your files all that kind of stuff, but I wanna do is talk about taking a more proactive stance in managing your digital presence. And so I taught a class several years ago to a group of teachers on how to manage their online reputation, and this was really before I mean facebook was around? But this is really before all the big social media platforms came out, and the concern at that time was really that there were a lot of students that had cell phones that they would essentially bait their teachers to into a some sort of reaction, and then they would film them. The students would film the instructors in their reaction. They will get them to. Just you know, do things they wouldn't normally do so. That was the big thing that was happening. At that time when I taught that class and so. What I did was just Kinda, gave some examples of some things that have happened over the years of why really have to be cognizant of your online reputation things like that, but that's not going to be the pointed episodes, so what I WANNA do today. Is, really. Share with you. Some of the things that I learned about being proactive about your online presence, and so I read a I read a book a few years back about it was about social media for academics and I. Don't remember the title Offhand, but I can certainly look that up and put it in the show, but it was a book about social media for academics in the idea. Was that you could? Share your research with. The general population using new media, so things like social media blogging podcasting youtube ing. You know all that kind of stuff, and that's not something that's traditionally been done in the past academics, but it really just struck a chord with me because. When I was working on my PhD thought while this is silly that there's so much information locked up in these research jo...
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By Heather Monthie, PhD• Google yourself, your family, include Google Images• The focus is maintaining a good reputation.• If you have a bad digital presence, it can be fixed but it does take some work.• These are some tips to get you going on building and maintaining a positive online presence.• Check privacy settings• Get your social media accounts.o Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Facebook, YouTubeo Increase your activity levels on these platforms. Figure out which work best for you• Assume nothing is private. Screenshots are forever.• Don’t argue with people online• Buy your domain name (and your kids)• Consider starting a blog! I have a free 30 minute tutorial about how to start a wordpress blog step by step https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvSjbKrXcqE
Full transcript:
Managing Your Digital Presence
00:00:00 - 00:05:06
Get ready for another episode of the Tech Regular People podcast with me Heather Mafi. This is the podcast I. Answer Your Tech Questions. You've always wanted to ask in a fun and entertaining way. You can easily ask me your questions by going to www dot. Go ASK HEATHER DOT COM. Let's get started with today's podcast. All right before we get started. I wanted to share a little story with you, so it is summer here already in Arizona. It's hitting hundred degrees every day, and so I am no longer recording my podcast in my bedroom closet because there's no air conditioning vent in there, so I'm in my office right now and the air conditioner is right outside my office wall. So I'M GONNA do my best to try to edit out the low pitched hum, but if you hear it in this podcast, that's what that is, so that'll be around til probably November so when we shut off the air conditioning so today on the episode I WanNa, Talk About Managing Your digital presence. So in the last episode we talked about digital spring cleaning, and the things that you can do this time of year to just Kinda of clean up your digital clutter. Clean up your files all that kind of stuff, but I wanna do is talk about taking a more proactive stance in managing your digital presence. And so I taught a class several years ago to a group of teachers on how to manage their online reputation, and this was really before I mean facebook was around? But this is really before all the big social media platforms came out, and the concern at that time was really that there were a lot of students that had cell phones that they would essentially bait their teachers to into a some sort of reaction, and then they would film them. The students would film the instructors in their reaction. They will get them to. Just you know, do things they wouldn't normally do so. That was the big thing that was happening. At that time when I taught that class and so. What I did was just Kinda, gave some examples of some things that have happened over the years of why really have to be cognizant of your online reputation things like that, but that's not going to be the pointed episodes, so what I WANNA do today. Is, really. Share with you. Some of the things that I learned about being proactive about your online presence, and so I read a I read a book a few years back about it was about social media for academics and I. Don't remember the title Offhand, but I can certainly look that up and put it in the show, but it was a book about social media for academics in the idea. Was that you could? Share your research with. The general population using new media, so things like social media blogging podcasting youtube ing. You know all that kind of stuff, and that's not something that's traditionally been done in the past academics, but it really just struck a chord with me because. When I was working on my PhD thought while this is silly that there's so much information locked up in these research jo...