Building an online identity 5 dec13

Organize your online identity

Shawna ReiblingKnowledge mobilization officer, ORS@LaurierResearchDecember 5, 2013

Agenda

1. Definitions and Questions to consider

2. Discussion of online identity

3. Case studies: organizational diagrams

4. Checklist

5. How to share your digital CV

Digital Identity

Digital identity… a set of data that uniquely

describes a person or a thing and contains

information about the subject's relationships to

other entities.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_identity

Online CV

Online/digital CV… a version of your CV that

guides a viewer through your work experience,

papers, etc. in a systematic, non-linear way using

online tools.

Questions to consider

• Do I need a online presence?

• Am I ready to be digitally social?

• What is my online presence?

• Am I starting from scratch?

• Precautions & opportunities …

• Who am I trying to reach?

• What do I want people to know about me?

• How much time can I spend online?

• What resources do I have?

Questions to consider 2

Your Online Identity

• What does your email address say about you?

• What does your online name say about you?

• What do you want your

online identity to be?

• Is this for professional or personal use?

@MrsKutcher

Why am I crafting a digital identity?

• Knowledge mobilization: Moving research knowledge into active service

• Feedback on ideas• What are others in your field working on today?• Real-time conversation and network exchange • Resource sharing • Immediate awareness of information• Conferences? Contacts? Partnerships?• Event promotion?

Your Digital Identity

Case studies: Organizational diagrams

Consistent identity message

blog

Best of blog

delicious

flickr

Twitter

Dissertation

Researchpapers

Scholarlypublications

myspace

Webpage

How to share your identity

Julie Mueller: Laurier Page

Julie Mueller: Links

Julie Mueller: External

Julie Mueller: External

Julie Mueller: External

Julie Mueller: Google Profile

Julie Mueller: Scholar search

• Laurier Page• Laurier lab page/

personal page• Blog Page• Scholars Commons • MakeItHappenWLU

• Twitter feed• Media links

Julie Mueller: Elements

• Twitter Accounts• Personal• lab

• LinkedIn profile• Google Scholar

profile

Julie Mueller: Elements

Laurier webpage

Laurier lab page Blog

Scholars Commons

MakeithappenWLU

lab twitter feed

Media links

Work/ Personal twitter

LinkedIn

Google Scholar Profile

Blog

Labtwitter

Twitter on Laurier webpage

wlu.ca/research/food or

www.wlu.ca/homepage.php?grp_id=896

Findable Laurier webpage

wlu.ca/childlab

Childlab on Facebook

Kotsopoulos vs. childlab

Kotsopoulos vs. childlab

Checklist

Identity checklist

• Step 1. What is your identity?• Step 2. What do you want to share?• Step 3. Who do you want to share it with?• Step 4. Evaluate your Laurier webpage• Step 5. Create your online publication identity

(Google scholar, Scholar’s Commons, ORCID)• Step 6. Engage in social media (if you want to)

Choosing an Identity

• What name do you currently use?(if any)

• For Twitter: choose something short

• Do you use mobile devices? Is it easy to type?

• Can you get a persistent alias

Figure out your identity

What do you want to share?

• Catalogue what you have and where it is

• Organize it

Who will you share with?

• Create a “user profile”– Where are they?

• Find where you want to update

Evaluate your Laurier webpage

• www.wlu.ca/faculty/name

• i.e. wlu.ca/education/kmoreno

• wlu.ca/childlab

• Do you want it static or do you want to use its features?

Which citation gives “further reading” options?

Slide via [email protected]

Google Scholar in action

Slide via [email protected]

Create online publication identity: Google Scholar

• Step 1. go to www.google.com/profiles• Step 2. Follow these instructions:

www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Google-Profile

Create online publication identity: Scholars CommonsScholars Commons @ Laurier is an online collection of the intellectual, creative, and scholarly output of the Wilfrid Laurier University community. Scholars Commons creates a consolidated Web presence for the dissemination, promotion, and preservation of research and scholarly publishing at Laurier.

The goal is to support open scholarly communication, collaboration, and lasting visibility and recognition for Laurier scholarship.

Create online publication identity: Scholars Commons• Step 1. Go to scholars.wlu.ca/• Step 2. click on ‘My Account’

Researchers should also register with ORCID ID

• ThomsonReuters• Elsevier• Springer• Wiley • Wellcombe Trust

Engage in Social Media

Listen before starting a

conversation

Privacy Settings

• Set them up well

• They change

• Test them regularly

Help Others Find You

• Be consistent• Claim your space• Be recognizable• Start walking!• Profiles• ePortfolio• Blog• Domains

Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sludgeulper/

Ask others & Talk about it

Add to email signature

Add to Business cards

Write it on your name tag

Share your user names

Contact me

Web: wlu.ca/research/kmb

Email: [email protected]

Twitter:@LaurierResearch