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Online identity according to Google

The Oxford Broookes course has a task involving checking out what Google comes up with when typing your name, to find out what our online public profiles are like. This was an interesting exercise, just because it gathered so many fragments.
  • I found the usual and predictable things: university staff page, university research page (out of date!), conference slides, conference programmes, abstracts for some journal articles, a couple of full articles, and references to book chapters. My LinkedIn profile came up too, and so did the MySpace profile that I barely use. I also found my AREC profile which I'd forgot about.
  • Embarassingly, the 'prolific contributor' messages re-surfaced :-( This was when I was on holiday and set up an automatic message to indicate this. This message ended up recurring over and over again in a discussion group I belonged to. I have never used this 'on holiday' facility again!
  • Annoyingly, it would seem that my details got picked up by Zoominfo and a couple of similar sites, which gathered some (outdated) webpages published by other people.
  • There are also a few 'Florence Dujardin' around, but clearly francophone.
There are some key issues here:
  • managing a coherent profile (particularly from a professional perspective)
  • making sure that important pages are up-to-date (especially uni pages)
  • getting unwanted pages deleted!
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