Tamara Manton

To be honest, this isn’t a subject I’d thought about before; like all of our community, when I’ve been completing my University assignments I have found it difficult or impossible to access key articles. So before looking into this topic I would have been 100% in favour of Open Access. Continue reading →

This week I’m using PowToon and ScoopIt to present my thoughts, backed up with some old-fashioned text. http://www.scoop.it/t/open-access-and-new-business-models The Open Access ethos equates to making material publicly available, so that it can be freely read and used. As highlighted last semester by Lucy Hewson, in the case of academic papers this enables academia and industry to use and build on such publications. Continue reading →

This topic was ostensibly about the ethical issues that are attached to business and educational use of social media. Oddly, at the end of the exercise, I’ve concluded that it is we, as individuals, who have the critical role in ensuring companies, individuals and educational establishments act appropriately. Continue reading →

Each member of our blogging community has been asked to complete a retrospect after each topic. But we are also being prompted to share thoughts as we work, i.e. to share before, during and after. Naturally I’ve taken to looking at what was produced last semester. Continue reading →

For me, the key leaning point from this topic was the need to ensure that your professional profile showcases your personality, not just your skills. This was a point emphasised by Charles Hardy (the speaker on Aliyu’s video). I created my LinkedIn profile a few weeks ago, and looking at it now I realise that it really doesn’t show who I am as a person. Continue reading →

Let’s start with the basics – what does ‘authentic’ mean? – for me, (and the dictionary) it means real, genuine, original and accurate. Hence, I am taking this question to mean, how should I go about showcasing who I really am? You may be wondering, why is this important? The answer is simple, around 92 % of recruiters use LinkedIn to vet candidates, and 31% use Facebook[1]. So your profile must be authentic. Continue reading →

After reading and reviewing other people’s blog posts, it’s clear that what constitutes a separate ‘online identity’ has a subtly different meaning for different people; some took this to mean that if their Facebook and LinkedIn ‘persona’ were different then they had multiple identities. I’d taken a different tack, assuming that an identity was only ‘separate’ when it was fragmented and disconnected (which really can only happen by design). Continue reading →

When we go online we leave behind a digital footprint; information about what we have accessed and posted. This can be used by individuals, organisations and governments, to assemble a picture of the persona we adopt on the web and, potentially, what we are like in the real world. Continue reading →

The first topic introduced some relatively simple concepts ….’Visitors’, ‘Residents’, ‘Natives’ and ‘Immigrants’. If I were to categorize myself with these concepts I would be both a Resident and a Native. It’s very easy to accept such simple, self-evidently accurate terms, and not question them. And in this case, I think I’m guilty of failing to challenge their nature. Continue reading →

The concept of Visitors and Residents was developed by David White and Alison Le Cornu: • The Resident is an individual who collaborates and contributes online, establishing a permanent online presence. • The Visitor is an individual who uses the web as a functional tool and leaves little trace behind them. This is a different vision to Prensky’s concept of ‘natives’ (those who were born into the digit age) and ‘immigrants’ (those who weren’t). Continue reading →