Monday, January 28, 2008
Step 3 - Improve the privacy of your blog site
Approximate time: 10 - 15 minutes
As mentioned in a previous section, it's important that you consider privacy and safety when developing your e-portfolio. The trick is to make your e-portfolio conveniently accessible to the right people (e.g. employers) and inaccessible to those that would use the information to harm or defraud you.
The following steps will help secure your e-portfolio site.
a) Turn off the public listings
From the Settings | Basic tab, change the "Add your Blog to our listings?" setting to "No".
b) Limit comment posting to blog members (people you have invited to your blog)
c) Set Blog Permissions
Now the most important privacy setting... Go to Settings | Permissions and under Blog Readers "Who can view this blog?" select "Only People I Choose". To invite potential employers to view your e-portfolio, you type their email address(es) into the "Invite some people to read your blog".
If you send a cover letter out to an employer prospect, you could mention your e-portfolio and that it is available upon request (they would just need to send you an email and then you would paste their email into the "Invite some people to read your blog" section).
You should add cyrijones2@gmail.com to your permissions list so that I can grade your e-portfolio.
From the Settings | Comments tab, change the "Who Can Comment?" setting to "Only Members of this Blog".
d) Turn profile sharing off
The last setting to change for improved privacy is the profile sharing. Go to the Dashboard and select Edit Profile. Uncheck the "Share my profile" section.
Now it's time to collect and host files...
As mentioned in a previous section, it's important that you consider privacy and safety when developing your e-portfolio. The trick is to make your e-portfolio conveniently accessible to the right people (e.g. employers) and inaccessible to those that would use the information to harm or defraud you.
The following steps will help secure your e-portfolio site.
a) Turn off the public listings
From the Settings | Basic tab, change the "Add your Blog to our listings?" setting to "No".
b) Limit comment posting to blog members (people you have invited to your blog)
c) Set Blog Permissions
Now the most important privacy setting... Go to Settings | Permissions and under Blog Readers "Who can view this blog?" select "Only People I Choose". To invite potential employers to view your e-portfolio, you type their email address(es) into the "Invite some people to read your blog".
If you send a cover letter out to an employer prospect, you could mention your e-portfolio and that it is available upon request (they would just need to send you an email and then you would paste their email into the "Invite some people to read your blog" section).
You should add cyrijones2@gmail.com to your permissions list so that I can grade your e-portfolio.
From the Settings | Comments tab, change the "Who Can Comment?" setting to "Only Members of this Blog".
d) Turn profile sharing off
The last setting to change for improved privacy is the profile sharing. Go to the Dashboard and select Edit Profile. Uncheck the "Share my profile" section.
Now it's time to collect and host files...
# posted by Cyri @ 11:49 AM 
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