Join now – create an effective online presence and manage your digital identity.
The Digital Footprint – 3 week online course (free or £39 for a certificate) from the University of Edinburgh, starts 1 May. Join others from around the world to share ideas and hear from a wide range of experts. Registration https://goo.gl/rKEZ3Q
Watch the TEDx Youth talk from Nicola Osborne (2 Dec 2016)
At a workshop with students from Nursing Studies, we discussed e-professionalism, including the professional bodies’ guidelines and what e-professionalism meant to them. The following Wordle illustrates this.
This short presentation (approx 10 mins) by Dr Louise Connelly, provides information on managing your digital footprint and creating an effective online presence.
Creating an effective online presence
It happens all the time and another large company has just announced that they had a data breach – Yahoo!
What can you do?
Further information about the Yahoo hack can be found at:
e-Professionalism is the way you engage yourself online in relation to your profession, including your attitudes, actions and your adherence to relevant professional codes of conduct.
e-Professionalism – why is it important?
It is important for you to think about how you manage your activity online in the context of your emerging professional identity (identities). An effective online presence (managing your digital footprint) can be very beneficial.
Further information: www.ed.ac.uk/iad/digitalfootprint
If I Googled you, what would I find? This is the question that Nicola Osborne (EDINA, University of Edinburgh) presented to her audience as part of her #codi16 Fringe show.
Read the 4 star review: http://www.broadwaybaby.com/shows/if-i-googled-you-what-would-i-find/713802#.V8BRCv-LBYw.twitter
The Nursing & Midwifery Council provides social networking guidance. The guide provides 
information on how to use social media responsibly and how the Code can be applied to social media use.
“Nurses and midwives may put their registration at risk, and students may jeopardise their ability to join our register, if they act in any way that is unprofessional or unlawful on social media including ”
“This guidance, which underpins the Code, covers the need to use social media and social networking sites responsibly.
It is not intended to cover every social media situation that a nurse or midwife may face, however it sets out broad principles to enable them to think through issues and act professionally, ensuring public protection at all times.”
Download or access the guide: http://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/guidance/social-networking-guidance/
Other Resources
The Thesis Whisperer has written a great post…
Scholar, google thyself..
“How you appear to yourself in a search is not necessarily how others will see you because Google creates a ‘filter bubble’ around each user. Basically Google knows who you are, where you are and what you like and will shape the search results to help you.”
Digital Footprint: Creating an Effective Online Presence
2 Feb 2016, 7-8pm (UK time).
Eligibility: All University of Edinburgh students
This session will focus on managing your digital footprint and how to create an effective online presence.
The session will:
There will be an opportunity to ask questions and share experiences and your own hints and tips.
No previous experience or knowledge is needed to attend this session.
What is your digital footprint? It’s the data you leave behind when you go online. It’s what you’ve said, what others have said about you, where you’ve been, images you’re tagged in, personal information, social media profiles and much more. Further information and other workshop details can be found http://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/about-us/projects/digital-footprint/eventshttp://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/about-us/projects/digital-footprint/events
This session will take place via blackboard collaborate (virtual classroom). Booking is required in order to receive the workshop link and further information about how to join the session.
Managing Your Digital Footprint 