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Who are we when we are online? Maybe a better question could be, What is it about you that surfaces in an online environment and would not come up anywhere else?

this isn't so much directly education-related as it is something we all need to consider these days - and so will our students. i'd be interested in knowing which one or more you've tried, and what you thought about the service. would you recommend?

it is crucial to monitor and define our online identities. We need to start thinking of those Google results as our resume and clean up anything that doesn't belong there.

Enter your name, and Personas scours the web for information and attempts to characterize the person - to fit them to a predetermined set of categories that an algorithmic process created from a massive corpus of data. The computational process is visualized with each stage of the analysis, finally resulting in the presentation of a seemingly authoritative personal profile.

"Personas is a component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit, recently on display at the MIT Museum by the Sociable Media Group from the MIT Media Lab (Please contact us if you want to show it next!). It uses sophisticated natural language processing and the Internet to create a data portrait of one's aggregated online identity. In short, Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. "

digital footprint presentation by Dean Shareski recently presented at #BLC10 - excellent for teachers.

Presentation by Dean Shareski. Talks about our identity on the Internet, filtering.