Managing your online reputation
Nancy White links to an interesting comment about Managing your personal online reputation will be a core life skill
I'm going to circle back on this, but wanted to tag it/blog it as something to consider as part of my online competencies thinking... Open (finds, minds, conversations)...: Managing your personal online reputation will be a core life skill:"...managing your personal reputation will become a basic life/career skill as the way the world communicates becomes increasing oriented to the web."
A friend asked me about this in regard to posting pictures of my child or other personal information. Have I given any thought to "controlling his digital identity?"
Nancy's find goes a little further. How will I teach my kids online rules? Will there be online rules that are as easy as the rules in the real world?
- Look both ways before you cross the street.
- Don't talk to strangers.
- Cough into your elbow (not into your hand).
As I recall, this topic came up in last year's BlogWalk Chicago around the question of providing appropriate education, just like one might provide financial management and other kinds of life-skills education.
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Can help reacting here!! Who is coughing into an elbow?! This is the weirdest thing I've ever heard. So if this is already cultural determined, so will be the online rules? Or will they be universal?
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Joitske- I was hoping someone would react to that one :-). "Cough into your elbow" (or sleeve) is being promoted as safer than coughing into your hand because the likelihood of spreading germs decreases. A search on the phrase turns up any number of articles, from medical to people blogging about the idea.
Hi Jack,
I'd be interested to get your thoughts on what you think of reputation management tools such as http://www.yasni.com and Knoweme ?
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I've started lecturing on this very topic because of the explosion of interest in Facebook and MySpace among my students (http://eclecticbill.blogspot.com/2006/02/so-what-is-it-about-facebook.html).
As far as rules go, I fall back on the "would you want your family to see this on the front page of the New York Times?" But, as one student said, this really depends on what kind of family you have. :-)