1 of 19

Why your Digital Identity matters

Image licensed CC by Gareth

2 of 19

Session Aims and Outcomes

Aims

This session aims to introduce concepts of Digital Identity.

Outcomes. By the end of this session you will:

  • Understand the terms Digital Footprint and Digital Identity
  • Identify why these concepts are important within professional and personal development
  • Consider your own Digital Identity

3 of 19

Identity will be the most valuable commodity for citizens in the future, and it will exist primarily online

- Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman Alphabet (Google)

4 of 19

Digital Footprint

5 of 19

Google your neighbour

Introduce the person next to you only using information found via a search engine.

6 of 19

7 of 19

90% of Recruiters use facebook to vet candidates before interview

8 of 19

Digital Identity

9 of 19

The content I share

The content shared by others about me

Digital Identity

10 of 19

11 of 19

Twitter and Facebook are publicly-traded companies and beholden to shareholders looking to make a profit. Google, which owns YouTube and processes over 70% of the world’s search traffic, is likewise legally obliged to return a profit.

All of these companies provide services that are free at the point of access in return for your data and attention (which they monetize through advertising). - Doug Belshaw

”

12 of 19

13 of 19

14 of 19

Connecting

​

Communicating

​

Curating

​

Collaborating

​

Creating

​

Social Learning

___

​

Analytics

​

​

15 of 19

Considerations

16 of 19

Considerations

  • Creating the personal and the professional ‘you’ online.
  • Privacy and security settings. Opting Out , justdelete.me
  • Responsible sharing . Guide to copyright
  • Voice online
  • Audience
  • Wellbeing FOMO/POMO, Switching off, Screentime, Inertia
  • Building skills for a digital age

​

​

17 of 19

​

​

​

​

​

#Bellogate

18 of 19

http://polr.me/identitymap

A tool to help map your online identity

19 of 19

References & Credits

Background image for titles PD by Ryan Hallock�Background image for transitions CC by l.hutton

Slide 1: Image licensed CC by Gareth�Slide 5: Digital Footprint by Common Sense Education�Slide 6:Jobvite Survey on social media use in recruitment, Google blog of employee skills Our Googley advice to students: Major in learning,� Glassdoor blog 4 things employers look for when they google you�Slide 10: Doug Belshaw on Digital Identities & DoOO�Slide 11: Image from S.Comley, Developing Independent Learning [pres.] 2013�Slide 15: Jisc copyright guide for students, DACS copyright for artists, Creative Commons, forestapp, Howard Reingold on screentime�Slide 16: Buzzfeed of Bellogate at UCL�Slide17: Digital identity map, based on the work of Fred Cavazza

LSE conference on digital identity

​

This work by Mark Williams is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.