Digital Identity Workshop

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Digital Identity Workshop

• Pat Parslow
• (p.parslow_at_reading.ac.uk)
• http//thisisme.reading.ac.uk

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Who Am I?

• Researcher
• Teacher
• Developer
• Philisopher
• Gamer
• Blogger
• Twitterer
• Facebooker
• Godfather
• Idealist
• ...

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This Is Me

• http//brains.parslow.net
• http//www.twitter.com/PatParslow
• http//patparslow.amplify.com
• http//reading.academia.edu/PatParslow
• http//www.personal.reading.ac.uk/sir06pnp/  (!)
• http//www.facebook.com/profile.php?id284202104
• http//del.icio.us/patparslow
• http//www.clipmarks.com/clipper/patparslow/
• ...
• Suzetta Blackadder on SecondLife
• ...
• various names on various games...
• ...
• oh yes, and 
• http//thisisme.reading.ac.uk/pg/profile/PatParslo
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I am who?

• Who says those are me?
• How do you know I am not  Shirley Williams, and
  "Shirley" isn't Pat Parslow?
• Tell me who I am...
•     What am I interested in?
•      
•     What impression does my online identity give
  you?
•         Organised? Fun? Chaotic? Dedicated?
  Focussed? 
•         Miserable? Whining? Angry? Fascinated?
  Boring?
•         (more... -))

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Who are you?

• Best working with someone else...
•     Try doing an identity search on each other
•         Start with just their name
•          - and maybe their subject, where they
  work
•     Who are they?
•     Who says so?
•      
•     Are you sure?

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Who do you want to be?

• How can you build your DI?
• What do you want people to think about you?
• Again best in pairs, or small groups...
•     Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 20 years
  time?
•     What does your DI need to be like to support
  that?

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Your story

• While you're here...
•      
•     Create an ID on http//thisisme.reading.ac.uk
•     Wait - 
•         what name to use? 
•         Why are you creating this?  
•         What am I going to ask you to do with it?
• Tell you DI story - 
•     what DI means to you,
•     how you can manage it,
•     and anything amusing or embarrassing ...

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What is hidden...

• Keeping track of your DI
•      
•     Search - 'Google yourself'
•         automated - Google Alerts
•     Various ID search engines 
•         New (to me...)
•         http//www.myonid.co.uk/search?qPatParsl
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•     But what about the deep web?
•     How will you know what is there?

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A personal network?

• Why?
•     Deep web
•     Funding possibilities...
•     Learning network...
•      
•     ... all founded on trust
•     ... all founded on Digital Identity
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