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Young people’s own tactics for public image management online

01-Mar-13

As more and more people on this networked planet are living life out loud*, public image management is an increasingly useful skill. Some people call it online reputation management, but online is just a “place” where reputations are curated, and among the most skilled curators are thoughtful young social media users thinking about their futures. [...]

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Facebook’s ‘Timeline’: More than a new look

23-Dec-11

If Facebook’s newly fashioned user profile, Timeline, says anything, it says that what you post on the social Web is forever (but it does say more – keep reading). In many ways, Timeline is a safety- and privacy-education tool right in your face (on your screen), as you go. Because “Timeline collects and chronicles everything [...]

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The social Web, reputations & an election

09-Nov-10

We’ve just had the first election in which politicians have had to confront social-Web skeletons in their closets. Is it going to get worse or better?

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