Thanks to all of you for some excellent discussions about online identity. Yes it is a huge area and impossible for one person to cover everything, but I hope you agree that collectively the group has produced a variety of interesting perspectives and resources on the topic.<\/p>\n
Some posts are getting too long \u2013 experiment with \u201cdoing more with less\u201d. Remember the recommended word counts! For example, use pictures\/diagrams\/videos\/embedded tweets to illustrate a point rather than a long verbal description. There is no \u201cone best way\u201d but learn from you like about how other students have approached the task (don\u2019t forget to credit them!) And what can you bring in from the video workshop to add value to your posts and help build your profiles?<\/p>\n
Make sure if someone comments on your work that you moderate it quickly and refer any technical problems that may occur. We have some great tech support that I can call upon. A few comments have been going missing and this can be frustrating for all concerned.<\/p>\n
Some of you are making excellent use of twitter in terms of encouraging comment on your posts and furthering the debates. I\u2019d like to see more engagement with people beyond the module \u2013 if you have drawn upon someone\u2019s work in your post \u2013 tweet them a link to it and thank them. You can\u2019t guarantee a response of course but you never know! Often these things work indirectly \u2013 you might not get the immediate benefit you were hoping for, but it all helps to boost your visibility and other connections may develop as a result. <\/p>\n
Finally, on a semi-serious point, please note I have underlined the word \u201cauthentic\u201d in Topic 3\u2019s question about developing an online professional profile. While it is great to publically acknowledge the work of colleagues and others with a supportive tweet, make sure you don\u2019t overdo it. We all need occasionally to take an objective look at what we put \u201cout there\u201d and check that it passes the bull***t test. For example, if you had a job interview lined up and were following your interviewers on twitter, you might want to make a constructive comment on work that they have shared, perhaps linking to something else that it relates well to. That would probably impress them, as evidence you had done your homework, and had something useful to say on the topic. You wouldn\u2019t RT everything they had written saying it is the best thing you\u2019ve ever seen. Because that wouldn\u2019t be authentic. It would be creeping \uf04a <\/p>\n
So the trick in building a professional online profile is to get that balance right \u2013 clearly showing what you have to offer but without boasting, exaggerating or simply looking creepy. (ok, I realise that some sales roles may form an exception to this!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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