Site 1: Dr. McClurken’s Blog
This was a great site to start on because it provided me with a great example of a professional personal website! The theme is super professional and blacked out, if not a little bland, but still looks good. I didn’t realize that my professor has done just so much! It includes lists of all of the work that he has done and groups that has been on with lots of hyperlinks. This is a prime role model for when I make my personal website and digital portfolio.
Site 2: Digital Tattoo
This site is a student run project dedicated to engaging others on the current discourse surrounding digital identity. The name itself is very captivating and definitely draws the wanted attention to the site. It is very user friendly and has many recommendations for how to use the site. I looked at just a couple of the main topics and they have quite a sizable amount of subtopics underneath them about tons of digital literacy topics, multiple that I am not familiar with! This site is an excellent resource for digital literacy education; I can see a whole high school unit based off of the material presented in this site.
Site 3: Seth’s Blog – Personal Branding in the Age of Google
This is just a quick story of how putting potentially reputable people’s names into Google turned up that they had evidence of them binge drinking and shoplifting. This inspired me to look at my own name on google and Instagram to see what I could find. I am happy with what I found on Google: the UMW Deans List announcement, my Weekly Ringer Articles and a UMW article about move in from my time as an RA. I have been fairly careful around pictures and parties and have recently suspended my Instagram account, but I know some choice pictures at my brother’s frat parties are out (no branded beverages thank goodness, just a stylish metal cup!) I need to not slack off even as I turn 21 because how I portray myself online will stay around forever.
Site 4: Dana Boyd – Apophenia – Controlling Your Public Existence
This site brought up some interesting points. To start, I am turning off Facebook’s public search feature right away. Additionally, when I start blogging I was hoping to be quite blunt with my blogs, but this turned me off from that. I do need to keep ALL of my digital presence not necessarily formal or professional, but definitely PG-13 at least.
Site 5: Prof Hacker – Creating Your Web Presence: A Primer for Academics
This site touts three main tiers that must be balanced in creating a web presence: familiarity, consistency and participation. These basically state that I should know what I am getting into data and privacy wise with every site that I sign up for, I should keep a fairly consistent and not abnormal web presence on all platforms and that interacting with others builds your “digital social currency.” One thing that this article stated is that I did want to post that raunchy picture of me backflipping while smoking and shot gunning a white claw (hypothetical of course ;), I could tune my privacy settings so only people that I have approved to view my page could see it. This still allows them to potentially spread the picture around so it is not foolproof.
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