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Students & Social Media
A collaborative resource developed by the Millersville University Library and the Office of Experiential Learning and Career Management (ELCM) for individuals who want to ensure that social media is helpful, not harmful, to their careers.
Last Updated: Mar 28, 2012
URL: http://guides.library.millersville.edu/socialmedia
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Popular & Professional Social Media Tools
- FacebookBy setting up friends lists and controlling privacy settings you can easily balance both your personal and professional lives on Facebook.
- TwitterUse Twitter's RT and @reply features to network with others in your field.
- LinkedInHaving a LinkedIn profile is important if you are interested in taking advantage of basic networking to find a job, or just network with others in your field.
- You Tube
- Blogging
Monitor Your Reputation & Clean Up Your Digital Dirt
Digital dirt is online content that may negatively impact your personal and professional identity. There are two kinds: Self Created (content you have posted & can be deleted or edited by you) and Posted by Others (request the owner or webmaster of the site to remove the content). Remember, deleting content and setting privacy settings are not absolute. Once on the Internet, content is likely to remain there permanently.
Search and monitor content you've created that's easily viewable by the public and what other people are saying about you and your content. Conduct searches on these websites for yourself, your blog, your Twitter name, screen name/handle, etc.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Does this accurately represent me?
- Do I feel comfortable having either colleagues or potential employers view this content?
- Does it reveal too much personal information that I would be uncomfortable sharing with the public?
- GoogleGo ahead... Google yourself!
- Google AlertsSet up alerts to be notified by email or RSS when a new item is posted about you.
- Google ImagesDon't forget images...just because you have a handle on Facebook privacy settings, doesn't mean your friends do!
- How to contact a site's webmaster
- monitterMonitor a set of Twitter keywords and narrow the search to a particular geographic location.
- OpenbookSearch public Facebook updates
- Removing a page or site from Google's search results
- Removing content from Google
- Reppler
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