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Managing yourprofessional identity
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•How you are seen by your colleagues
•How you are seen by your peers
•How you are seen by the general public
Traditional identity
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• By your conduct• By the things you say• By the things others say
about you• By what you write• By the way you write it
• Through… face to face, papers, peer review, presentations…
How is that gauged?
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Professional and personal have
fused together thanks to…
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Social networking particularly has changed the way we interact…
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•Your friends; who they are / what they do
•Your personal life / interests
Identity now extends to…
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A window into your private life
(But it isn’t always a bad thing!)
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What you say…
How you say it…
“It aint what you do it’s the way that you do it”
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• Current employers
• Prospective employers
• Students
• Colleagues
• Peers
Consider who might look you up
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Consider this…
Choose your friends wiselyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/cerpntaxt/42348941/
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You are Bob Smith…• You sign up to social
networking site• You add your colleagues• You also add your friend• You keep it professional /
managed• Your friend finds a pic he
took a couple of years ago and adds it to his page tagging it “Bob Smith – night to remember…”
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• DO lock down your profile if you’re not comfortable exposing your private life
• DO choose your friends carefully• If you wish you can:
– lock down your photos– and your wall
Social Networking
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• Blogging: Using the blog to ‘vent’ against employers/colleagues can go against you
• Twittering: Builds a picture of your life (in and outside work)
Getting lost in informality…
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• Consider what you say
• Be aware what othersmay publish
• Understand Data Protection
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Know your rights…
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Consider…
What you say; on comments, blog posts, forums,
personal websites, social networks
How much information you make publicly
available; check privacy policies on sites
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• HUGE benefits to all these tools
• Can be used in a positive way
• This culture shift isn’t such a bad thing
• But BE CAUTIOUS
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• We all use them
• We just choose what we’re comfortable exposing… and how we wish to present ourselves
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Any questions?
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