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= Building and Managing Your Professional Web Presence = //Technology Teacher Leader Meeting - Monday, April 29, 2013// //Google Presentation//


 * Objectives:**
 * // Develop an awareness of your online presence and what it says about you. //
 * // Understand how to create and manage a professional web presence. //
 * // Understand the importance of a web presence for students K-12 and what they will need to know about it today to be successful in the future. //

// Introductory Video: Juan Enriquez TED Talk: Your Online Life, Permanent as a TattooJuan //


 * I. What is It?**
 * Web Presence
 * Digital Footprint

Google yourself. Get specific. Include alternative names, middle names, and with and without quotes. Try a search in each of the following search engines.
 * Activity 1 - Check Your Digital Footprint **
 * Google
 * Spezify
 * Quintura
 * Personas


 * II. Should You Have a "Professional Web Presence"?**


 * III. Questions to Consider:**
 * How does your digital footprint relate to or affect your web presence?
 * Can you maintain both a public and a private web presence? Is it necessary to separate them?
 * How might your employer's interests or policies affect your personal web presence?


 * IV. Basic Principals of Web Presence**
 * Familiarity
 * Consistency
 * Participation

Google Profiles is a quick, easy public face gives you a distinct identity. It helps searchers distinguish you from people with similar names and because Google Profiles is a Google product, it appears to get a bump in Google search results.
 * Activity 2 - Create Your Online Profile **
 * [|LinkedIn]- A free website to post professional profiles that also works as a social network for professionals.
 * [|Google Profiles]- One of the most common free websites to post an online profile that integrates with other Google applications.
 * [|Flavors.me]- Create a free online profile page that looks extremely professional and offers many templates.
 * [|About.me]- Similar to Flavors.me. Create a free online professional profile page.
 * [|Visualcv.com]- This free service offers a more detailed online profile that works as a web portfolio, resume, or CV.
 * [|Weebly]- Powerful site creator, surprisingly easy to make a high quality site that is easy to share. (Both free & paid versions)
 * [|Wix]- Create free, beautiful web sites. Easy to customize, no coding, Google friendly.
 * [|Google Sites]- Web sites created from templates that are free and easy to customize. Great for student portfolios.


 * V. How to Remove Your Private Information from Background Check Sites **
 * Delete anything too valuable on social networks.
 * Use Privacy Settings to cloak other information.
 * Remove or deactivate social networks you no longer use.
 * Use the Opt Out form to get data brokers/miners to remove your personal information.
 * Consider using a paid service like Reputation.com or Albine's DeleteMe.


 * Activity 3 - Maintain Your Online Presence **
 * Participate in web projects, online communities, e-conferences.
 * Post a digital copy of all or part of your presentations online/offline on Slideshare, a blog or a wiki.
 * Join Twitter, Facebook and Google+ and post education related materials or join teacher communities.
 * Monitor your web presence with [|Google Alerts].
 * [|Monitor] your web presence periodically in general.


 * SOURCES**