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Becoming a Flourishing Digital Citizen
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Beginner Provider : Silvina Asurmendi 5 Lessons · 13m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
This course stresses the importance of maintaining a positive online presence. In an era where your online interactions often precede face-to-face interactions, managing your digital reputation has never been more essential. A distinctive feature of the course is its emphasis on digital advocacy. The power of the digital community, when channeled positively, can have transformative societal impacts. You will learn techniques to manage and enhance your digital image, ensuring it aligns with your values and aspirations. Tactics you’ll learn include reviewing your personal brand and goals, claiming and creating social media profiles, starting a blog, registering your name as a domain, and avoiding arguments online.
In Becoming a Flourishing Digital Citizen, we will define digital transformation and explain its impact on digital citizenship. We’ll discuss the notion of being a citizen in a world undergoing rapid digitalization. We will also dig into practicing safe internet use and how to safely engage in the digital world, including your personal online branding. And we’ll discuss how to safely engage in the digital world and common practices for doing so.
What You'll Learn
- Understand digital transformation and its impact on digital citizenship
- Explore what it means to be a citizen in a rapidly digitalizing world
- Identify best practices for safe internet use and safely engaging online
- Distinguish and define your personal branding and goals
- Manage and enhance your online reputation to align with your values and aspirations
- Apply tactics such as claiming social media profiles, starting a blog, registering your name as a domain, and avoiding online arguments
Key Takeaways
- Maintaining a positive online presence matters because online interactions often precede face-to-face interactions.
- Digital advocacy can channel the power of the digital community positively for transformative societal impacts.
- Managing your digital image involves aligning it with your values and aspirations.
- Practical reputation tactics include reviewing your personal brand and goals, claiming and creating social media profiles, starting a blog, registering your name as a domain, and avoiding arguments online.
- Safe engagement in the digital world includes practicing safe internet use and managing your personal online branding.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this course cover?
The course defines digital transformation and its impact on digital citizenship, explores being a citizen in a rapidly digitalizing world, covers safe internet use and safely engaging in the digital world, and addresses personal online branding and managing your online reputation.
What skills will I gain from this course?
You will gain skills in digital transformation, reputation management, and search technologies.
What topics are included in the lessons?
Lessons include an Introduction, Who Is a Citizen of a Digitally Transforming World?, Safeguarding Internet Use, Managing Your Online Reputation, and a Test Your Knowledge assessment.
What practical tactics will I learn for managing my digital image?
You will learn to review your personal brand and goals, claim and create social media profiles, start a blog, register your name as a domain, and avoid arguments online.
Professional Certifications and Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM®)
Professional Development Credits (PDCs): 0.25
KnowledgeCity is approved by SHRM as a Recertification General Provider to offer SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP professional development credits (PDCs). By taking the courses approved by SHRM, KnowledgeCity can award SHRM Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for HR knowledge and competency programs related to the SHRM Body of Applied Skills and Knowledge™ (the SHRM BASK™).
