{"id":18,"date":"2020-03-31T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/history\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2020-03-31T15:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T15:53:01","slug":"managing-your-online-presence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/history\/?page_id=18","title":{"rendered":"Managing Your Online Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Why an online presence?\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><strong><i>What does this mean?<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Take control over your online footprint in a way that furthers your professional goals. This includes content you make on your own or other platforms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>Why bother?<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides avenues for sharing your scholarship and ideas<\/li>\n<li>Helps to expand your professional network<\/li>\n<li>Helps you manage what other people learn about you<\/li>\n<li>Others\u2014potential employers, colleagues, strangers&#8211; *<strong>will<\/strong>* search for you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><i>BUT!<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t do every single thing\u2014do what works for YOUR goals. This will look very different for each person and it will change over time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Establishing your online presence<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><i>How to do this?<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get a sense of what&#8217;s already out there. Google yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Think about your current professional and educational goals \u2013 where can you establish an online presence in a way that helps you achieve these?\n<ul>\n<li>For example, if your current goals include getting a job, setting up a LinkedIn could be helpful. As could engaging with other professionals in your field on Twitter, establishing a personal website, and having a profile on the history department website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>How should you present yourself on your own platforms? Again, think of your goals. Where do you want to be? How do you identify professionally? You want to share relevant information, not every single thing you&#8217;ve ever done. Kind of like a resume (vs. a CV)&#8211;\u00a0resumes are more tailored\u00a0for\u00a0the audience(s) you want to reach.<\/li>\n<li>Also, consider content others make about you\u2014 this happens one of two ways: because you reached out to them directly with something to share and\/or they wrote or talked about you because they saw something you did\/wrote\/said (some good, some less helpful).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Where could this information go?<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your institution and\/or school:\n<ul>\n<li>Employers will sometimes post bio pages for employees<\/li>\n<li>Loyola History Department website\u2013 Taskstream. <strong>Be sure to set up your Taskstream profile!<\/strong> This is where all the Loyola history graduate student bios on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.luc.edu\/history\/graduate\/Current_Grad_Students.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a> come from. HGSA can provide more detail about how to do this.<\/li>\n<li>Tell the history department media assistants (these are always history graduate students) what you&#8217;re up to so your work\u2014as a student and then an alumnus&#8211; makes it into department news stories and the department&#8217;s social media feed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Your professional field:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.h-net.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">H-Net<\/a> comments and discussions.<\/li>\n<li>Publish material on relevant blogs and websites, like those <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.luc.edu\/history\/publishing-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">found here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Podcasting\u2014pitching yourself as a possible guest and\/or building your own (<a href=\"https:\/\/hhethmon.com\/directory\/\">https:\/\/hhethmon.com\/directory\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Conferences \u2013 share what you&#8217;re presenting at a conference online and on Twitter. Share your Twitter handle with conference organizers, if they ask for it when you register.<\/li>\n<li>CV and\/or resume\u2014put it on your website, if you have one<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your social media channels:\n<ul>\n<li>Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, ??<\/li>\n<li>Website<\/li>\n<li>Share original content on your own blog or podcast<\/li>\n<li>Put a gateway to your online presence on your business cards<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><b>Managing your online presence<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><i>Congrats\u2014you&#8217;ve built a presence online this work. Now what?\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Update your material regularly<\/li>\n<li>What are you working on? Talk about it\u00a0in\u00a0relevant online spaces. Share with others. Build a dialogue online.<\/li>\n<li>Follow people whose work interests you\u2014engage with their posts on social media channels you frequent.<\/li>\n<li>Follow and participate in online conversations in your field\n<ul>\n<li>For example: Twitter hashtags #twitterstorians\u00a0#publichistory\u00a0#phdchat<\/li>\n<li>Online conference presentations \u2013\u00a0BeyondProf, AASLH, NCPH examples<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/danamus.es\/2016\/08\/01\/glossary-of-museum-related-hashtags\/\">https:\/\/danamus.es\/2016\/08\/01\/glossary-of-museum-related-hashtags\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Compiled by Hope Shannon, March 2019.\u00a0<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Parts of this are adapted from &#8220;Managing Your Online Professional profile&#8221; by Prof. Kyle Roberts, March 2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why an online presence?\u00a0 What does this mean? Take control over your online footprint in a way that furthers your professional goals. 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