Social Media Week 2014, What we will be doing!

Day one of Social Media Week is almost over, today we focused on launching our #youngmindsonline campaign. We launched our Young Minds Online Survey & a fabulous new Young Minds Online Logo, we also shared facts and a blog post listing out the importance of protecting Your Online Reputation and to top it all off we made it on Galway Bay FM News before the day had even began! Pat on the back to us! We are going to continue our celebrations of Social Media Week and campaigning for Young Minds Online for the rest of the week and here is what

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You Are What You ‘Tweet’

Importance of protecting your online reputation Your Online Reputation is not just for business, adults or third level students. Your Online Reputation is YOU! Google has an ever-lasting memory and your online reputation will stick like mud. 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

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Senator Backs Campaign to Protect Young Minds Online

“Social media studies should be part of school curriculum” – Senator Hildegarde Naughton   Galway-based Senator Hildegarde Naughton is backing a campaign to protect young minds online and is calling for social media studies to be introduced into the school curriculum. Her comments come on the first day of Social Media Week 2014 (#SMW14, 17-21 February). “I will be asking Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn to consider introducing a programme such as Young Minds Online into the school curriculum. The issue of cyber-bullying and protecting young minds online comes up frequently during the course of my work and I feel very

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Learn To Love Your Online Reputation This Valentines Day

Love Your Online Reputation As we increasingly live out our lives online, we’re finding that not only are there major downsides to all of that social media over-sharing—but we may have little control over the way we appear on the internet. The rise of the internet has given birth to a lot of good things … and a lot of things that are not so good. (Forbes) Your online reputation can be seen in a number of ways. Whether you’re looking for a job, selling a product, or trying to score a date with that girl/guy you always bump into on

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