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1. Managing Your Online
Source:
Rep…Your Digital
http://www.
bitrebels.co
m/social/fac Footprint Matters!
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Presented by Elizabeth Ngonzi
Technology Instructor / Social Media
Expert
New York University Heyman Center
for Philanthropy & Fundraising
On October 29, 2011
Footprint Source:
http://www.hotfrog.com/Companies/Yo
ur-Digital-Footprints

3. What’s a Digital Footprint?
• Google search results
• Facebook profile
• LinkedIn profile
• YouTube videos
• Online photos
• Comments on articles / blogs / website
content
• Online purchases
• Emails
• Text messages

4. Why Your Digital Footprint Matters
• Permanently available
• One of the first places people / institutions
go to check you out
• Fairly easy to access
• Can hurt / improve your reputation

5. Something To
"One example that I give is
having an appropriate e-mail
address," he says. "Create a
Think About
college admissions and financial
aid e-mail account, so that the
colleges can use it to
communicate with you, then
when you get in, close it out."
How Social Media ‘Mistakes’ Can Adversely
Communicating appropriately Affect College Admission
matters, too. "Texting language is
not appropriate in e-mail “…One quarter of the admissions offices
correspondence with admissions surveyed admitted to using both social
professionals or professors," he networking sites and search engines to
says. "I tell them to be investigate prospective students who were up
professional. Show us that you for scholarships or candidates for “high-demand”
can write. Information can get programs. The reason? Apparently, the close
lost in translation, or gives the scrutiny was done to protect the school from
impression that you are in a “potential embarrassment.”
hurry and don't really care about
getting in to college. I tell them to
use good judgment with pictures
and their Facebook page."

6. Important Facts
To Consider
More college officials learn about
applicants from Facebook

8. Your Digital Footprint

9. 10 Ways to Manage Your Digital Footprint
1. Search for your name / aliases on Google to see what’s out there
2. Setup a Google alert to inform you when your name shows up in a
new search
3. Remove anything that can hurt you on Facebook and check the
privacy settings on your Facebook account
4. Think before you comment on or “like” anything online
5. Avoid posting anything online that you wouldn’t want your mama or
grandma to see
6. Don’t text anything you would be embarrassed about tomorrow
7. Be careful about the people with whom you associate online
8. Post positive information about yourself
9. Setup an email address that’s your first and last name only and
create a signature that people can use easily to contact you
10. Make sure that your outgoing voicemail message is clear and
doesn’t confuse callers

10. Setting Up a Google Alert
Source:
http://www.google.com/su
pport/alerts/bin/static.py?p
age=guide.cs&guide=2841
3&topic=28416

11. Checking Privacy Settings on Facebook
Source:
http://www.facebook.com
/settings/?tab=privacy

12. Posting Positive Information About Yourself
Source:
http://www.slidesh
are.net/

13. Posting Positive Information About Yourself
Source:
https://about.me/

14. Setting Up Your Gmail Account and Signature
Gmail Account Setup:
https://accounts.google.c
om/NewAccount?service
=mail&continue=http://m
ail.google.com/mail/e-
11-
11ce9a38850b098eb671
fac9572599-
5f0495b231ec5e2ed270
d58d64bad701dc94ab51
&type=2
Gmail Signature Setup:
https://mail.google.com/s
upport/bin/answer.py?an
swer=8395