Improve online visibility
Effective practices for getting your name on the main search engine rankings.
This forum aims to encourage and continue the lively and constructive debate and presentations which took place at LCC on 15/11/2012 part of UALs enterprise week, see more about this event and other topics here.
Website Analytics for Open Education Projects - http://openspace.falmouth.ac.uk/courses/website-analytics-open-education-projects
Interesting for online identities project .... http://www.petapixel.com/2013/02/02/woman-shops-herself-into-photos-of-the-rich-and-famous-fools-silicon-valley/
I find keeping an active online presence, adding and contributing to your online profile, linked resources and network engagement etc. really helps keep you on the search engine radar. Its also useful to develop your specialism in specific areas then you'll find you'll appear in that subject search, you'll make connections and people who are looking for you will be able to find you quicker, as they can search your name and the subject/context together.
My place on line (The place I live - professionally is here) - http://process.arts.ac.uk/users/cfollows I add content daily and I use it for reference.
I use twitter to widen the catch of the content posted I also tweet content of other users - @ProcessArtsUAL- https://twitter.com/ProcessArtsUAL this sometimes feeds both ways and a paste the tweet feedback in the process.arts post comments (looking for an automated way of doing this)
I use facebook to but this is not as effective as the twitter engagement - http://www.facebook.com/process.arts.7?ref=ts
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See - http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/jan/31/students-get-boss-friendly-online?CMP=twt_gu