The document provides tips for maintaining a positive digital footprint online, including thinking before posting, associating your name with positive content, valuing privacy, managing personal information, and not hiding from the permanent nature of online content. Key recommendations are to overload search engines with good original content, keep passwords private, and understand that the internet never forgets what you post.

1. Creating and Maintaining a
Positive Digital Footprint
Stacy Nockowitz
The Columbus Academy
Reinberger Middle School Library

3. Daniel Pink

4. Daniel Pink

5. Claire Booth
Luce

6. “Hey, Mr. Prez!”

10. ?
?
?

11. What’s your sentence?

13. “He filled people’s
lives with rhyme
and art and joy.”

16. http://twentyfivedays.wordpress.com/

17. A Grimm story, indeed.

23. How long do things last?
© 2004-2011 The Fun Times Guide to Log Homes™

25. FOREVER

26. The web never forgets.

27. IP address=
Internet Protocol address

29. Source: Wall Street Journal Online

30. Study commissioned by Microsoft.

33. 1. Think before you post.

35. Use Common Sense!

36. 2. Associate your name
with positive things online.

39. Presentation hosting sites
http://www.sliderocket.com/
http://www.slideboom.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/
http://www.authorstream.com/

40. Video hosting sites
http://jaycut.com/
http://www.youtube.com/
http://www.schooltube.com/
http://vimeo.com/

41. Seth Godin

42. “The best plan is
to overload Google
with a long tail
of good stuff.”
Seth Godin

43. 3. Value your privacy.

44. your password = your
toothbrush

46. parrotheadjeff.com/.../10/imageslogging-off.jpg

47. 4. Manage yourself.

48. Stacy Nockowitz

49. If you really want to freak yourself out...
pipl.com

52. 5. Don’t hide!

53. “If I shut my eyes, you
can’t see me!”

55. photo © 2007 Andrew Stawarz