Your personal brand is your reputation. You can’t buy it, you can’t sell it. However, you can damage it by your online activity. Your brand in life is very important because we live by our reputation. Your peers, parents, teachers, acquaintances, employer and prospective employers can all ‘judge’ or give an opinion about you based on the online reputation you have created of yourself. How would you best describe your online reputation? Strong? Poor? Worrying? Funny? Have you ever considered how your online reputation may look from somebody else’s eyes? Here are some strategies to follow to ensure that
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Young Minds Online Final Showcase in Salerno Last week Transition Year students in Salerno Secondary School in Salthill Galway presented their final projects at a showcase in the school. The final showcase was facilitated by TY teachers Mr. Fogarty and Ms. Waterstone. The 50 TY’s presented the findings of their 7-month course to first, second and third years. Over the past seven months the girls in Salerno have developed a best practice Social Media Use Policy for themselves, their peers and their school; developed, launched and executed an Anti-Cyberbullying Campaign, learned skills in Digital Marketing, Content Marketing, Web Marketing, Social
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Fantastic news on a Monday.. We are delighted to announce that Digital Training Institute is a semi-finalist in the 2014 OMiG Awards. We have made it to the semi-finals of the first ever OMiG Awards and have been nominated in not only one but, three categories of the awards. Marketing Leadership Best Website Best Blog Digital Training Institute could now be in with the chance of winning: Marketing Leadership EUR 1000 from GCCEB in cash and 4 mentoring sessions and 2 workshops Connacht Tribune – EUR5000 advertising Professional Diploma from the Digital Marketing Institute EUR1495 Tree Light Pictures – EUR2500 video production IMS Marketing EUR1500
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The ‘Selfie’.. The ‘Self Potrait’ of the Digital Age A form of self expression? A sign of becoming a self absorbed generation? or A harmless fad and a bit of fun? (Oxford Doctionaries Word of the Year) A Trend of the Digital Generation It has become a trend amongst smartphone users, celebrities, athletes and politicians have been seen joining in on the trend too. The infamous ‘selfie’ has even reached outer space. On Christmas Eve last year astronaut Mike Hopkins captured one of the greatest selfies of all time during a spacewalk to allow the crew to change out a
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