A presentation given at IT Summit 2011 in Saskatoon. The big take home message is that we all have some kind of online presence if you've ever put anything (even a comment on a news story) online. Managing that presence deliberately is

1. Master of your own
domain
Creating and maintaining a positive
digital identity

2. Master of your own
domain
Creating and maintaining a positive
digital identity
Rob Wall

5. Why worry about online presence?

6. Are your digital footprints like this ...
cc licensed flickr photo by adamgaston: http://flickr.com/photos/
adamgaston/15945448/

7. … or like this?
cc licensed flickr photo by wonder_al: http://flickr.com/photos/wonderal/295481537/

8. Me circa 2003 (long since gone)

11. Should we have a
right to forget?

12. cc licensed flickr photo by uacheesehead: http://flickr.com/photos/

13. Would you put this
on your resume?
cc licensed flickr photo by uacheesehead: http://flickr.com/photos/

14. Would you put this
on your resume?
If it’s online, you did!
cc licensed flickr photo by uacheesehead: http://flickr.com/photos/

15. Would you put this
on your resume?
If it’s online, you did!
Should we have a
right to be forgotten?
cc licensed flickr photo by uacheesehead: http://flickr.com/photos/

16. What does yours say?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/will-lion/
3974469907/

20. Build your identity purposefully!

22. http://sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/about-page-guidelines/

23. Use your real name (most of the time)

24. Anonymity is the enemy of empathy
cc licensed flickr photo by San Diego Shooter: http://flickr.com/photos/nathaninsandiego/4071042778/

25. Re-present yourself honestly
cc licensed flickr photo by ©athrine: http://flickr.com/photos/cidsoe/448552193/

27. “What about
the children?”
cc licensed flickr photo by courosa: http://flickr.com/photos/courosa/3712030236/

28. The
threat?
cc licensed flickr photo by Ninja M.: http://flickr.com/photos/a_ninjamonkey/3229808076/

30. Monitor yourself

32. Your reputation
isn’t based on
what you say ...

33. it’s based on
what others
say about
you.

34. Be part of the conversation

36. Share

37. Show off
http://bit.ly/brosproshandgun

38. Own your identity online

39. Default online presence

40. Default online presence

42. http://about.me

43. cc licensed flickr photo by shareski: http://flickr.com/photos/shareski/
2712075693/

45. Who owns your name?

46. About me:
@robwall
about.me/robwall
http://robwall.ca
robwall@gmail.com