Presentation: Scholarly Reputation Management Online

Abstract: Social media provides scholars with unprecedented opportunities to promote their accomplishments and expertise. Conversely, social media creates more identity information to for scholars to manage. Different facets of scholar identity online will be introduced. Within this framework, new types of identity content produced by social software and the challenges this creates will be discussed. Lastly, opportunities for using social software to manage scholarly reputation will be explored.

Abstract: Social media provides scholars with unprecedented opportunities to promote their accomplishments and expertise. Conversely, social media creates more identity information to for scholars to manage. Different facets of scholar identity online will be introduced. Within this framework, new types of identity content produced by social software and the challenges this creates will be discussed. Lastly, opportunities for using social software to manage scholarly reputation will be explored.
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links for 2009-09-23

Video of Author Identity session at Science Online London 2009

Science Online London 2009: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online from Joanna Wombat on Vimeo.

My slides are posted here.

Presentation from Breakout 3: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online

My slides from Science Online London 2009:

Discussion on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/solondon/0c635324/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-new-kind-of

Alison Lister’s notes on the session: http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/breakout-3-author-identity-creating-a-new-kind-of-reputation-online/

Session description:

Breakout 3: Author identity – Creating a new kind of reputation online
Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida

ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?