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Week 2 Social Media and Online Identity
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Feedback on week 1 How did you get on? What are your thoughts on Digital literacies Did you take the Digital Learner Profile quiz? What were the results?
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Social Media and Online Identity What we mean by an online identity What tools you might consider using How you manage it netiquette What impact it can have Building your network Examples This weeks task
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What we mean by an online identity What is it and … does it really matter?
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What is it?
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What Google tells us about you
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Task 1 – How discoverable are you? Go Google your name – Can you find yourself and what criteria did you have to use? – Was there anything that came back that concerns you? – What did it tell you about how you could be perceived online? Put your hand up when your ready!
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Does it matter?
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How you manage it How you use them? – maximising your presence – Promoting yourself or your ideas – Bringing it all together – Professional VS Private
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Maximising your presence Have your own website Where possible make use of.ac.uk addresses Use your full name Use a photo of yourself and be consistent in it’s use across networks Register on all key sites & complete the profile information on them Add links to each from each Be active, if you have a blog, use it. Use TAGs appropriately
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Promoting yourself or your ideas Create Content Write about the content Promote the content Link it all together
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Charming baker the artist who shot to fame
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Getting the timing right We all remember this?
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Break
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Bringing it all together
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Professional vs Private Tech vs chickens! & Tech vs Tech!....a tale of two technologists
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What tools you might consider using What tools for what purpose – Blogging – wordpress, blogger, twitter – Multimedia - Podcasting/videocasting/Image sites – youtube, vimeo, Flickr & Instagram – Others (FB, Google+, Linkedin) – Academic tools (Academia.edu, ResearchGate.net, Mendeley etc)
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Facebook stats Monthly active users now total nearly 850 million 250 million photos are uploaded every day 20% of all page views on the web are on Facebook 425 million mobile users 100 billion connections Zygna’s games revenue is currently 12% of Facebook’s total income 2.7 billion “likes” per day 57% of users are female Stats from http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/23/48- significant-social-media-facts-figures-and-statistics-plus-7- infographics/http://www.jeffbullas.com/2012/04/23/48- significant-social-media-facts-figures-and-statistics-plus-7- infographics/
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Twitter Stats There are over 465 million accounts 175 million tweets a day 1 million accounts are added to Twitter every day Top 3 countries on Twitter are USA at 107 million, Brazil 33 million and Japan at nearly 30 million Busiest event in Twitter’s history is now “Castle in the Sky” TV screening 25,088 tweets per second (previous record was the last minutes of the 2012 Superbowl with 10,245 tweets per second).
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Linkedin 2 new members join every second USA leads membership at more than 57 million, Europe has more than 34 million members 60% of its members live outside the USA In 2011 there were 4.2 billion professionally oriented searches on the LinkedIn platform LinkedIn now has over 2,116 employees (at the beginning of 2010 it had only 500) The fastest growing demographics are students and recent college graduates Revenues for 2011 reached $522 million LinkedIn is the 36th most visited website in the world
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YouTube 3rd most visited website according to Alexa 2 billion views per day It handles 10% of the internet’s traffic Average YouTube user spends 900 seconds per day 44% of YouTube’s users are aged between 12 and 34 Over 829,000 videos are uploaded every day Average video duration is 2 minutes 46 seconds
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Google+ It was launched on June 28, 2011 Google+ reached 10 million users by July 14, 2011 67% of Google+ users are male Google “+1″ button is served more than 5 billion times daily It is gaining 625,000 users per day In less than one day the Google+ iPhone app became the most popular free application in the Apple App store
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What are positive Impacts? Raise profile Improve discoverability Builds connections Builds Trust (people need to know who you are…re. online learning content) Stimulates ideas/creativity Gathers feedback Demonstrates knowledge & engagement
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Negative Time Misunderstood Vulnerability/overexposure Immediate imprint Negative Feedback Intrusive/ trivial IPR/Copyright/Terms of Use/ Security What other people say about you Employer contractual rules http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/social- media/9089826/Tweeting-about-a-bad-day-could-lose-you-your- job.html
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Netiquette What you write How you respond to others Site Guidelines Copyright
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Building a Network Observe Participate Engage Network
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Building your network IKEA and Facebook – UK Store Sleepover – Malmo’s Facebook showroom – Australian Wedding – US ‘Bring Your Own Friends’ – Sleep like a Princess – Bedroom Makeover http://youtu.be/0TYy_3786bo http://vimeo.com/47802351
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Activities this week Consider: How online identity is created. How to use social media effectively Managing your online presence. Web safety and Netiquette.
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