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Topic 3: Building your Online Professional Profile

Please read these notes and check out the links, before preparing and posting your answer to the set question. This document should be regarded as just the start of the discussion, which we all then develop over the next two weeks through the conversations themselves and the sharing of further relevant links. It is intended to give you a flavour of the challenges and opportunities in managing your professional online identity, and get you started on answering the Topic 3 set question below. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Reflection

As I mentioned in my ā€˜Seeing Doubleā€™ blog post, the concept surrounding multiple online identities is not overly complex, however the discourse in the comment sections on both here and my peersā€™ blogs have led me to think outside of my initial opinion-shaped box. Namat left me with some great questions and perspectives that I didnā€™t really consider beyond the surface of my discussion. Continue reading →

Topic 2: Reflective Summary

This weekā€™s background reading covered a variety of issues relating to online identity: anonymity and authenticity, presentation and reputation, our online and offline identity, privacy and security, and finally, identity protection.Ā  Initially, I found myself trying to cover all of these topics but I quickly realised this was not realistic ā€“ it was never going to fit under the word count! Instead, I tried to limit myself to the areas that took my interest: online personas and anonymity. Continue reading →

Why have more than one online Identity

We live in a world where you can type someone’s name into a search engine and find very detailed information about them in seconds via Facebook, twitter and LinkedIn profiles. This has caused identity management on the internet to be a key aspect to understand. Through the ease of access to information on the web, people have begun to create more than one identity that they are associated with. Continue reading →

The online ‘me’: Authentic identity or anonymity?

As I established in Topic 1, the dramatic advanceĀ of the Web in recent years has lead to many users becoming ‘residents’ on the Internet. Warburton stresses how one’s identity on social media has become intertwined with their real life identity: Increasingly persistent virtual presence on social media services […] has all but collapsed the boundary between being online and offline. Continue reading →