Building Your Digital Avatar Using LinkedIn
Building Your Digital Avatar Using LinkedIn Guest Post by Maitreyi Bodkhe After more than a year of Zoom school and professors encouraging everyone to turn on their cameras, I’ve spent a lot of time pondering my social media usage and digital identity. One of my favorite pandemic activities has been creating quirky Zoom backgrounds for […]
Zooming Into Remote Working
To quote every single email I have both sent and received in the past month, we are living in strange times. Many workplaces, schools, and friend groups have had their regular activities disrupted, and human contact is (temporarily) no longer an option. With nowhere else to go, the world has turned online. While there are […]
The Weakest Link(edIn): How I fixed my LinkedIn in a few simple steps
I first created a LinkedIn account in 2012. Like many people with many social media accounts, I created it and then left it dormant for years. I would update it sporadically; perhaps changing a phrase or two, but never giving it the full-on rewrite it needed. I knew it was a bad representation of who […]
From Student to Teacher: Becoming a Professional
To access the case studies, as well as the resources that can be used to guide decision-making, visit our Case Studies for Student Teachers page. Before I became a graduate student at UBC, I was a teacher candidate preparing to take on the role of a professional educator. Like all of my peers transitioning into the […]
Ten New Year’s resolutions for your digital life
New year, new you. Given that such a large portion of our lives are now led online, it only makes sense to make some New Year’s resolutions for your digital self. Here are 10 suggestions from the Digital Tattoo team for a fun and productive 2015: 1. Google yourself. Review what shows up in […]
Overexposed
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Start-up scours web for dirt on job candidates
Apparently, it’s not Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace that get most job candidates in trouble. According to Max Drucker, CEO of Social Intelligence, only about one-third of the incriminating web content comes from those platforms. Drucker’s company contracts with employers to scope out job candidates online and reports back any positive or negative info the company […]
Posting from home gets workers fired
Social Networking has expanded the reach of employee/employer relations. Two workers at a BC car dealership were recently terminated for making abusive and defamatory comments about their boss on their Facebook pages while outside of work. Yahoo.ca noted that the employee’s boss caught wind of the comments through the extended networks of the Facebook friends […]
Canned for comment
Comments and Tweets can cost you your job. Yahoo news reported that a newspaper editor in Australia was recently fired for commenting on Facebook about an upcoming story. His error: posting that a local murder was going to boost newspaper sales, that death is good for business. Read the story here. This is the second […]
Workers banned from using net
They knew it was bad, but not this bad. The BBC reported this week that the country Jordon has blocked access to over fifty websites on computers in government offices. The move came after government investigations showed that employee’s were spending more than three hours per day searching the web. Read the story here, and […]
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