{"id":184,"date":"2025-01-19T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/?p=184"},"modified":"2025-01-19T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:50:08","slug":"salt-social-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/applied-history-mcmaster\/2025\/01\/19\/salt-social-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Social Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When running my name through the Salt Profile Checker<\/strong>, there was a limited selection of results but the ones that did come up seemed good. The first three hits are my LinkedIn<\/em> account, a convocation list from McMaster, and an Instagram post associated with my VP Internal position in the HGSS at McMaster. I think this is a good start to building my digital footprint in an academic\/professional way. There actually isn’t more than one page of results that comes up though which I think mostly has to do with my limited online presence but also having a pretty uncommon name. This provides me with a unique opportunity where whatever I do that has my full name attached to it should come up quite easily in a simple Google search which means I can alter the results to my liking by increasing my online presence. However, this also means that I have to be really careful with what I attach my name to because it will likely be among the first things anyone sees when looking me up. I think a good first step to creating more hits will be updating my LinkedIn<\/em> profile with academic\/professional information. I would also like to aim to get some of my writing published in a graduate journal to get my name out there in a more academic manner. Hopefully over this term I will get more comfortable with engaging in the digital world. I think this will be beneficial to my career in academia as the digital humanities are on the rise and an online presence and skills in this area are worth a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n