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Privacy versus Security in Social Media

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I highly value the right to privacy and the anonymity that comes along with that. Whether that be the act of maintaining multiple personas online for a variety of purposes or if you wish to use the internet as a tool and not have a profile collected about how you […] The post Privacy versus Security in Social Media appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

The Controversy Surrounding Online Privacy

In a previous blog, I have discussed the importance of having a consistent online profile for professional reasons as anything we do online could be accessed by employers and effect our prospects, but it’s now time to consider whether it is in fact morally right for all of our online behaviour to be accessible. In his TED talk, Glenn Greenwald makes several convincing arguments in favour of online privacy. Continue reading →

Teachers and social media: an ethical nightmare

The use of social media in the educational field is manifold; this video gives an introduction to 21st Century Education. It’s focused on Australian education but has many interesting facts: for example in South Korea they have digital textbooks, which register the amount of hours spent reading them online! Thus there is arguably little debate about the benefits of the Internet in education. Continue reading →

Social Media – A Business Class Weapon of Discrimination

Today, I’m tasked with discussing ethical issues of Social Media in the Education or Business realm. I chose the issue of Discrimination – both positive and negative. How do Businesses use Social Media? We know from Mr Blythes’ Blog from last week, 94% of employers have admitted to using social media website LinkedIn in recruitment. Also, 1 in 5 of jobseekers have professional information on their Facebook profiles. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Creating a Professional Online Profile

So I decided to throw caution to the wind and take a unique approach to the topic, talking about creating an online professional profile in order to work independently in a creative field. The topic is a lot bigger than I made it out to be however; for instance creations can be crowd-funded using Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, or Patreon. My post also ended up effectively becoming a glorified Reddit advert. Continue reading →

Online Privacy is Still Important

Discuss ONE of the ethical issues raised by educational or business use of social media that you consider to be particularly significant. According to the BBC ethics is a system of moral principles and affects how a person makes decisions about their own lives. Although most people live their life ethically many don’t. The ethical issue I present today is whether the government should have the right to spy on us online and on social media. Continue reading →

Reflecting upon how to build a professional online profile

This weeks topic created some divide between ways to approach the question we were given. Some people created how to guides and step-by-step instructions on what you can do to create a better online profile whereas others focused more on the impacts of having a good professional profile. Russell wrote a very interesting blog post where he clearly outlined the steps he felt were necessary to create a professional online profile. Continue reading →

Topic 3 Reflection

This topic was all about developing a professional online profile, which includes websites like LinkedIn. LinkedIn has become a very important website for people who want to connect with companies and potentially get work from companies on LinkedIn. However, from reading other blog posts, LinkedIn isn’t the only website to look at if you’re trying to promote yourself online. Continue reading →

Reflection of Topic 3: develop professional profile

Actually, for me, I make a big progress as I finished my topic 3 blog because I got 3 comments for my blog. I always think I cannot write good articles because I am not native. It can makes my articles do not have logicality and wrong grammar and the parts of speech. However, though my peers’ comments pointed many shortages, they confirmed my article which makes me so surprised. In my blog, what I explained is the internet era is coming. Continue reading →

Topic 4: social media ethics

Please read these notes and check out the links below, before preparing and posting your answer to the set question. This document should be regarded as just the start of the discussions, which are then developed over the next two weeks through the conversations themselves and the sharing of further relevant links. These articles are intended to give you a flavour of the topic, and get you started on answering the Topic 4 set question below. Relevant articles/videos http://www. Continue reading →

Online professional profiles: Reflecting on Topic 3

This week, it has been interesting to read and write about creating an authentic professional profile, while developing my own on LinkedIn. I am in the process of updating my professional profile for LinkedIn. I have long noticed the value of blogging from my own personal blog. Bryony commented asking me about this (I replied as I have to all my comments) and I have to say, I really write about whatever I want to at the time. Continue reading →

More than a Suit

Image from :http://www.researchbydesign.co.uk/sectors/professional-services-research/ After last week’s topic, I decided to create a professional profile of my own on LinkedIn using the knowledge that I had learnt from that week. Looking back on it now, at the time I tried to make my profile fairly extensive to demonstrate I was taking the profile seriously. Continue reading →

Another look at developing a professional online profile

Developing an authentic online professional profile can be as simple as signing up to LinkedIn but if you want to really get noticed you need more and there is a lot more you can do. My latest blog post mentioned 5 key things that you can do to develop your online professional profile and that didn’t even cover everything. Tom and Lucy both pointed out how important networking can be. The larger your network the more likely you are to find opportunities. Continue reading →

Revisiting: Professional Profiles

In my original post I talked a lot about methods of hosting your content and presenting yourself, how it’s important that you have control over your own image, but I didn’t touch much on how to actually market yourself – which is arguably just as important as the image you are presenting. You can have […] The post Revisiting: Professional Profiles appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Topic 3: Developing your online professional profile

LinkedIn – Useful but not our only option. Via Pixabay – https://goo.gl/qhLZz4 I found this week’s topic particularly difficult to be original and creative. There seems to be one aspect of developing one’s authentic professional profile that everyone focussed on – LinkedIn. There’s no denying its usefulness, allowing people the ability to showcase their professionalism, apply for jobs and create networks to expand their connections. Continue reading →

Looking back on authentic professional profiles

 Source Topic three’s discussion of developing authentic online profiles was incredibly insightful and plagued with original responses. While I introduced a ‘how to’ approach, others engaged with key areas in developing an authentic personal brand. Leah made me consider the possible mistakes that we can make as we build our professional profile, such as failing to separate our personal from our professional lives. Continue reading →