E-Habits: What You Must Do to Optimize Your Professional Digital Presence

by Charnock, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780071629959
• ISBN10: 0071629955
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-12
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

What Does the Digital You Look Like?What you read Where you shop How you communicate with coworkers, friends, and strangers Whom you interact with on social networking sites . . . these are just a few of the things that make up the Digital You."The Digital You is a complex mosaic of habit, subconscious acts of both omission and commission, and premeditated presentations. It is how our peers and friends, bosses and family actually experience us, as ever more of our lives in the real world takes place in the digital one. The purpose of this book and the associated software . . . is to help you begin to experience yourDigital You in the same way that everyone around you does."-- From e-Habits, by Elizabeth CharnockFor the millions of people like us whose lives are increasingly lived online,E-Habitsis the first-ever digital image makeover guide that empowers you to present yourself in the best possible light with every electronic action--whether on the Internet or within your own organization. Elizabeth Charnock, a pioneer in the field of digital evidence analytics, reveals what everyday activitieslooking for a job, applying for a loan, searching for romance, e-mailing coworkerstell others about us. By showing what you can do to assess andcontrol the information about you that's "out there," Charnock outlines the steps you can take right now to ensure that the Digital You--the image of yourself that you present online--is the best representation of your values, your work, yourself.Learn the e-habits of highly effective people, such as: How to protect yourself at workthe e-habits that can make you more productive and keep your career on track The most dangerous Digital You character traits to avoidand the best e-habits to adopt What successful people can teach us about using the Digital You to improve the Real YouThe first resource of its kind,E-Habitsprovides the knowledge and tools, including exclusive Digital Mirror Software, that you can start using right now to accurately and candidly evaluate what your online behaviors reveal about youand the steps you can take to maintain and improve your "digital identity integrity." Far more than a handbook about online smarts,E-Habitsis the essential guide to personal brand management in the digital age.

Author Biography

About the Author
Elizabeth Charnock is the founder of Cataphora, a pioneering firm in the burgeoning field of evidence analytics, or the management and analysis of electronic data from an evidentiary perspective. It's the world's leading authority on the implications of personal and organizational behavior as evidenced by the use of electronic media.

In 2006, the author was featured, along with the likes of Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, in Fast Company magazine’s "Fast 50" list of 50 movers and shakers "who are writing the history of the next 10 years." Previously, she was CEO and founder of Troba, an industry-leading Customer Relationship Management software company which she sold in 2001.

Elizabeth has significant experience in engineering management, management consulting, and restart management at such companies as Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. Elizabeth holds a BS in Theoretical Mathematics from the University of Michigan Honors Program.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
The Digital YOU	p. 1
The Digital YOU at Work	p. 13
Actions Speak Louder than Words	p. 65
Annoying Digital YOU Character Traits	p. 97
The Digital YOU in a Bad Mood	p. 141
Love, Sex, Romance, and the Digital YOU	p. 161
When the Spotlight Shines on you	p. 191
The Twists and Turns of the Digital Grapevine	p. 217
Can the Digital YOU Improve the Real You?	p. 237
Notes	p. 243
Index	p. 247
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