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Win a Copy of ‘Me and My Web Shadow’ | Jobsite Insider

Win a Copy of ‘Me and My Web Shadow’ We’ve got a copy of our Book of the Fortnight, Me ...

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From #webshadows blog: How to get ahead with your web shadow, by PR boss Stephen Waddington

At a PR industry summer conference Me and My Web Shadow got honorable mentions in a presentation by Stephen Waddington (a.k.a. @wadds to his Twitter connections), managing director of top London PR firm Speed Communications. In the presentation, Stephen gives advice to people ...

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How to get ahead with your web shadow, by PR boss Stephen Waddington

At a PR industry summer conference Me and My Web Shadow got honorable mentions in a presentation by Stephen Waddington (a.k.a. @wadds to his Twitter connections), managing director of top London PR firm Speed Communications. In the presentation, Stephen gives advice to people working in PR about how to look after their online ...

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Problem with Facebook? That’ll be £1.50 a minute please…

As social networks become a part of most people's lives, all sorts of services are springing up to help them, from mobile phone ...

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What does your Google Suggest say about you? (And can it help measure your web shadow?)

If you have read Me and My Web Shadow you will be familiar with the idea of a Google Shadow, a phrase coined by Jeff Jarvis, and how Google is the most important tool in beginning to get a sense of what your web shadow looks like. Open University blogger Tony Hirst posted today ...

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Are you a member of the Googling classes?

The world is now so firmly divided into people who Google everything and those who rarely think of it that it's almost become an alternative definition of intelligence. I was sitting on the tube the other night facing somebody wearing a security pass for an educational institution. It had their name ...

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Growing up with web shadows: How young people are adapting to the new privacy

There are some interesting parallels between the rules at the start of Me and My Web Shadow - advice like "get a thicker skin" and "you're always on the record" - and the three headline changes Emily Nussbaum calls out in her recent New York ...

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Why many people don’t realise what they are sharing on Facebook

Research from Google shows that even experienced users of social networks often don't realise what they are sharing with whom. In a presentation that has gained a great deal of attention over the past week among in the web industry, Google researcher Paul Adams talks about how we have problems translating our real world ...

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Me and My Web Shadow published in the USA today!

Today is the official publication date for Me ...

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Young Americans more careful with their online reputation than elders, says Pew

Younger people in America could teach their parents a thing or two about responsible behaviour online, according to US research organisation Pew Research Center. Meanwhile older people are more likely to be careless ...

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