http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/myedna2/2007/07/04/managing-your-reputation/ Development news, feedback, comments, highlights of the service Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/myedna2/2007/07/04/managing-your-reputation/#comment-11 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 07:17:47 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/myedna2/2007/07/04/managing-your-reputation/#comment-11 Very interesting points Jerry. We certainly don't want all of our adolescent thoughts to stay bolted on to our reputation for ever, and I assume we won't be prudishly apply current standards to every extravagant comment offered 20 years ago. I would not like my dinner party opinions of 30 years ago to be thrown back to me today. However what we put on the internet today may well be with us in 20 years or more. Makes you think. Very interesting points Jerry. We certainly don’t want all of our adolescent thoughts to stay bolted on to our reputation for ever, and I assume we won’t be prudishly apply current standards to every extravagant comment offered 20 years ago. I would not like my dinner party opinions of 30 years ago to be thrown back to me today. However what we put on the internet today may well be with us in 20 years or more. Makes you think.

]]> http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/myedna2/2007/07/04/managing-your-reputation/#comment-9 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:11:18 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/myedna2/2007/07/04/managing-your-reputation/#comment-9 I think managing your reputation means different things to different people. Perhaps as members of the workforce many people would tend to be concerned about their online presence and would make efforts to guard it. Others would be blissfully unaware. However, it seems to be quite well documented that those who have or are growing up in a digital age may have quite different views on privacy and reputation. Personal webspaces are great tools for sharing photos, thoughts, activities etc. For example, in college it's not inconceivable that you may quite happily post a picture of yourself (mis)behaviing at a pub - having a great time last Saturday night. For the present, your reputation may actually be enhanced among some peers. Down the track this could be quite embarrassing perhaps as your values or attitudes may change over time. I can imagine that it would be difficult to convince those who are growing up how to not just enhance or protect their current reputation, but their future one too. Perhaps we need to be allowed to grow up in a digital sense just as much as in the real world. It is a difficult thing though (managing your online reputation). In real discussions, sometimes we push a particular point of view, not necessarily because we believe in it, but simply to be able to examine it and other alternatives (eg playing devil's advocate). In a class/meeting room, our colleagues usually easily recognise this but in a blog or forum, with less communication channels open to us, this becomes very easy to mis-interpret and, as you say, its quite possible our online reputation can be significantly altered. I think this whole area is a great area for further discussion. Cheers. I think managing your reputation means different things to different people. Perhaps as members of the workforce many people would tend to be concerned about their online presence and would make efforts to guard it. Others would be blissfully unaware. However, it seems to be quite well documented that those who have or are growing up in a digital age may have quite different views on privacy and reputation. Personal webspaces are great tools for sharing photos, thoughts, activities etc. For example, in college it’s not inconceivable that you may quite happily post a picture of yourself (mis)behaviing at a pub - having a great time last Saturday night. For the present, your reputation may actually be enhanced among some peers. Down the track this could be quite embarrassing perhaps as your values or attitudes may change over time.
I can imagine that it would be difficult to convince those who are growing up how to not just enhance or protect their current reputation, but their future one too. Perhaps we need to be allowed to grow up in a digital sense just as much as in the real world.
It is a difficult thing though (managing your online reputation). In real discussions, sometimes we push a particular point of view, not necessarily because we believe in it, but simply to be able to examine it and other alternatives (eg playing devil’s advocate). In a class/meeting room, our colleagues usually easily recognise this but in a blog or forum, with less communication channels open to us, this becomes very easy to mis-interpret and, as you say, its quite possible our online reputation can be significantly altered. I think this whole area is a great area for further discussion.
Cheers.

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