This document discusses how to curate a positive digital footprint and online brand. It recommends searching for your name online, setting up Google alerts, checking privacy settings on social media, and only posting content you'd be comfortable with anyone seeing. The document provides tips for managing digital footprints on platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, and email to help with goals like getting a job, networking, admissions, and dating. It emphasizes only posting positive information about yourself online.
4. Tonight‟s Goals:
Enable you to curate the digital brand that
will help you:
1. Get the job you seek;
2. Market yourself as an in-demand;
professional contact;
3. Impress admissions officers; and
4. Become a more attractive dating
prospect.
5. What Are Digital Footprints?
• Google search results
• Facebook profile
• LinkedIn profile
• Pinterest profile
• Online videos
• Online photos
• Comments on articles / blogs /
websites content
• Online purchases
• Email
• Text messages
6. Impact of Your Digital Footprints:
• Permanently available
• One of the first places institutions /
people go to verify information and
learn more about you
• Fairly easy to access
• Can hurt / improve your reputation
8. Top 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 account
4. Think before you comment on or “like” anything online
5. Avoid posting anything online that you wouldn‟t want those
who you respect to see
6. Don‟t text anything you will 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