The complete guide to building a digital footprint

1. Pick a site that YOU WANT TO join.

2. Sign-up.

3. Take the time to seek out interesting people.

4. Friend them, follow them, add them to your network, join their network, favorite what you like, read them, talk to them, and link to them.

5. Share thoughtfully, openly, generously, bravely and in a variety of places.

6. Enjoy what others share with you.

7. Go back to step 1, repeat.

In a couple months, Google search yourself.

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*Already have a digital footprint? Add your own links to this post and post it yourself! (Then share it with me!)

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3 Responses to “The complete guide to building a digital footprint”

1. Tony Fish shares:
   November 2nd, 2010 at 12:28 am

   like the picture – have put a copy on

   blog.mydigitalfootprint.com with link

2. Greg MacCollum shares:
   November 2nd, 2010 at 1:31 pm

   WOW, I just checked my Google footprint, I used to have a ‘rate my teacher’ rating up near the top, now it’s nowhere to be seen (on the first search page at least)! Very interesting, I didn’t do any of this for this rather nice side effect, thanks for inspiring me to look!

3. How about this? | Education Forethoughts and Afterthoughts shares:
   July 31st, 2011 at 1:54 pm

   [...] Then there needs to be a discussion of what other ways they could use to find out information. Then, and this is where Alec (in conjunction with David Truss who wrote about Digital Footprints) inspired me, I ask the students to go to computers (or their personal devices, whatever) and find out all they can about me. [...]

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