Digital Identity Workshop

							Digital Identity Workshop

             Pat Parslow
   (p.parslow@reading.ac.uk)
   http://thisisme.reading.ac.uk
                  Who Am I?

•   Researcher
•   Teacher
•   Developer
•   Philisopher
•   Gamer
•   Blogger
•   Twitterer
•   Facebooker
•   Godfather
•   Idealist
•   ...
                         This Is Me
•   http://brains.parslow.net
•   http://www.twitter.com/PatParslow
•   http://patparslow.amplify.com
•   http://reading.academia.edu/PatParslow
•   http://www.personal.reading.ac.uk/~sir06pnp/ (!)
•   http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=284202104
•   http://del.icio.us/patparslow
•   http://www.clipmarks.com/clipper/patparslow/
•   ...
•   Suzetta Blackadder on SecondLife
•   ...
•   various names on various games...
•   ...
•   oh yes, and
•   http://thisisme.reading.ac.uk/pg/profile/PatParslow
                       I am who?

Who says those are me?

How do you know I am not Shirley Williams, and "Shirley" isn't
Pat Parslow?

Tell me who I am...

  What am I interested in?

  What impression does my online identity give you?
   Organised? Fun? Chaotic? Dedicated? Focussed?
   Miserable? Whining? Angry? Fascinated? Boring?
   (more... ;-))
                   Who are you?

Best working with someone else...
  Try doing an identity search on each other
     Start with just their name
     - and maybe their subject, where they work

  Who are they?
  Who says so?

  Are you sure?
             Who do you want to be?

How can you build your DI?

What do you want people to think about you?

Again best in pairs, or small groups...

  Where do you see yourself in 5, 10, 20 years time?
  What does your DI need to be like to support that?
                       Your story

While you're here...

  Create an ID on http://thisisme.reading.ac.uk

  Wait -
   what name to use?
   Why are you creating this?
   What am I going to ask you to do with it?

Tell you DI story -
  what DI means to you,
  how you can manage it,
  and anything amusing or embarrassing ...
                  What is hidden...

Keeping track of your DI

  Search - 'Google yourself'
    automated - Google Alerts

  Various ID search engines
    New (to me...)
    http://www.myonid.co.uk/search?q=Pat+Parslow&commit=
Search&mode=best_match

  But what about the deep web?

  How will you know what is there?
                A personal network?

Why?
 Deep web
 Funding possibilities...
 Learning network...

  ... all founded on trust
  ... all founded on Digital Identity