by Miriam Posner, Brian Croxall, and Stewart Varner
This post is an extended recap of a Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC) workshop on creating a web presence. You can see a video of the workshop here. We'd love to see you at future DiSC workshops!
If you're a grad student, you're always in between. You're no longer the footloose college student you once were, but you're not yet a full-fledged professional, either.
The Google search results for your name probably reflect this transitional period in your life. Maybe your high school volleyball scores are jostling up against the conference paper you presented. Maybe there are some unwelcome leaks from your Facebook account. Or maybe you're just not there; you could be lost in a sea of other people who share your name.
As you get closer to the job market, however, you might want to spend some time cleaning up, standardizing, and generally retooling your online presence.
Luckily, you don't have to be a tech genius to do this. Here are some low-investment, high-return ways to maintain a consistent, professional Web presence.
"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.
