1. Building your Digital Identity
Professor Bala Iyer
Twitter: @BalaIyer
September 2014
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2. Everything is going digital
• Images
• Documents
• Conversations
• Music
• Movies
• Money
• Digital Reputation is
the new currency
• Identity
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Power to the edge
Power Shift from Institution to Individual
3. Educational Model
• Know
– Knowledge
• Do
– Skills
• Be (who you are)
– Identity
– Character
– Principles
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Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a
Crossroads (2008), HBS Book, by Srikant Datar
and David Garvin and Patrick Cullen
4. Online is more real than we think
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Source: William Staney blog
5. Professional Identity
• A professional calling is as much about the BE as it is
about the KNOW and the DO. The BE component is
largely what distinguishes a professional from others
who simply leverage and act upon technical
knowledge. . . Institutions charged with educating and
developing leaders need to get to the roots of
professional identity, specifically the BE component.
Because developing a strong professional identity goes
to the very heart of developing leaders of character for
society.”
• Developing Leaders of Character: Lessons from West
Point (Khurana & Snook) in Leadership and Governance
from the Inside Out (Gandossy & Sonnenfeld, 2004).
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6. Opportunities
• Without “doing” skills, “knowing” is of little
value, but “doing” skills will be ineffective and
direction-less without the self awareness and
reflection on values and beliefs that come
from developing “being.”
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7. Digital Identity
• Real world vs. online
• Need to dedicate time based on goals,
industry and point in career
• Should be an accurate representation
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9. How do we build our identity?
• Self-awareness allows individuals to have a sense of
who they are in relation to society and culture.
• By reflexively adjusting one’s perception of self in
reaction to society, people construct their individual
identity.
• When people interact with others, they convey aspects
of themselves through a set of signals that others must
learn to read and evaluate. […] the negotiation
between self-presentation and external evaluation can
be viewed as a performance, which helps construct an
individual’s social identity.
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Source: Leafar, I edit therefore I am
10. Building blocks
• Presence
• Connections
• Reputation
• Communities
• Conversations
• Sharing
• Identity – the extent to which others can
identify you as a professional online
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Trust
• Verified identity
• Shared social network
• Shared communities
• Shared interests
11. Me Inc.
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Blogspot
• Slideshare
• YouTube
• Quora
• Facebook
• Stack Overflow
• Smarterer
• LearningJar
• Google Profile
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13. Networks impact how we:
• Get information (prisms and lenses) – filter bubble?
"Today, we need to listen more carefully. I read what people
say on Twitter, my friends on Path, in addition to formal
media. I look for patterns, and then I post questions back to
my network." --Padmasree Warrior, chief strategy and
technology officer at 67,000-employee Cisco Systems
• Find opportunities
• Find and match resources
• Organize/source work
• Sell ideas and Influence people
• Mentor people
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14. How do we learn?
• Traditional Education
• Online models
• Communities
• Twitter filter
– Blogs
– articles
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23. Reputation
• The beliefs or opinions that are generally held
about someone or something.
• Information used to make a value judgment
about an object or person.
• It is based on the summary of one’s past
actions defined within the context of a specific
community
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Net Social Capital = Traditional Social Network + Online Social Network
[Randy Farmer]
24. The future is already here — it's just not very
evenly distributed
[William Gibson]
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25. Reputation Economy
• Refers to the way in which a person’s or
product’s standing is shaped by a collective of
end-users making their individual assessment
based on our judgment, knowledge and
behavior..
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26. Why do we need it?
• Facilitates market transactions
• Lowers transaction risk
• Builds social capital
• Sustains communities
• Creates new business opportunities
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27. New currency
• Content views
• Number of followers
• Likes. Diggs
• Reach of social network
• Subscribers
• @RT
• Authority in communities
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51. Activities
• Listen, share, participate and learn
• Articulate POV using blogs
• Complete LinkedIn profile
• Create Multi-media content
• Generate activity streams using Twitter
• Participate in communities
• Monitor conversations
• Earn credentials
• Build a following/reputation
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52. What should you do?
• REFLECT/Set goals
• Identify role models
• Develop competencies
• Measure progress
• Share best practices
• Learn from thought leaders
• Join the conversation
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53. Thank You
Dr. Bala Iyer
Professor
Babson College
biyer@babson.edu
Twitter: balaiyer
LinkedIn.com/in/BalarIyer
Facebook.com/BalarIyer
www.Balaiyer.com