Thursday, January 29th

A Workshop for Graduate Students

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Creating & Curating Curating Your Digital Identity as an Academic

Connect, curate, design, and architect your own experience and digital identity as a burgeoning scholar

How do I begin to manage and network with peers and colleagues during graduate school? After the diss and degree?

Why would I want to create and curate my online web-presence as an academic? How do you successfully orchestrate visibility?

Intro and Overview

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Case Study Examples Explore, Make, Create

Agenda for today’s Workshop

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and Overview

• Shifting Roles of the Academic (Public Intellectual)

• Re-orienting our vision of visibility, accessibility, and “reach”

• Managing and curating your digital identity vs. a free-range experience

So why is this important?

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Introduction

visibility and voice is my/our targetAs a public intellectual

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I DO DIGITAL WORK

Jon Wargo

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SO I SHOULDBE VISIBLE THERE?

CASE STUDY #1

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“How are you going to study what you don’t know?”

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My Primary Networks

jonwargo.com

Websitewargojon

academia.eduJon M. Wargo

Linkedin@wargojon

TwitterJon Wargo

Facebook

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Top Priority Sitings

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@wargojon

Twitterwww.jonwargo.com

Personal Website

academia.edu

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Connecting into Opportunity

NetworkScholarship Visibility

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Using social media to leverage visibility

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Creating and curating your digital identity as an academic takes time. In order to manage “who you are” as “what they see” you need to carefully prioritize and build-in time to design, build, and architect.

It’s not a one and done thing…

“I HAVE FOLLOWED ALL

Dr. Michelle Hagerman

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OF THE LINKS TO YOU WORKYOU PROVIDED.”

CASE STUDY #2

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Start with a vision for how you want to be perceived online, connect and network with communities, share and power up your visibility

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Step by step…Planning Ahead…

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Use mentor texts to identify the type of visibility and image you want to create

Open up networks for communication, start small so not to feel overwhelmed

Find and follow professional networks (#engchat, #literacies) to engage with your scholarly community

Begin creating and curating by sharing and networking with colleagues across sitings

Manage, manage, manage! Carve out time each week. Make a standing appointment with yourself

Make, Create, Design, Explore, Architect

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Workshop:

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Contact Us…

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Jon Wargo (wargojon@msu.edu) Dr. Michelle Hagerman (schiraha@msu.edu)

Contact Tweet UsJon Wargo (@wargojon)

Dr. Michelle Hagerman (@mshagerman)