Keeping Tabs on Your Online Reputation

Sarah Michaud and Hannah Bembia

Today’s networked information environment is creating new responsibilities for “curating” your online record—and new tools to help do just that.

 

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The Web has opened up myriad opportunities for finding information, for international collaboration and for doing science. But the Web’s vast scale has also created new tasks related to managing your online persona. For researchers, these tasks go well beyond creating a LinkedIn profile or maintaining a Twitter feed. How do you ensure that your research output is findable, and tied to you alone online? How do you keep track of the impact of your overall scientific output on an increasingly fragmented Web?

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