After several conducting research, some benefits emerged:

•Being aware of your current online visibility gives you some control.

•You will gain a sense of what your digital shadow looks like, that is, content about you posted and uploaded by others, or even created by you inadvertently. You will make informed decisions about your digital footprint, what you want your active contribution to and interaction with the online world to look like.

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•Increasing your own visibility enables you to:

•Gain recognition in your field and beyond Communicate your research to a wider audience Grow your networks

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•Increasing the visibility of your scholarly outputs will:

Increase the impact of your work and potentially increase citations Make your work available to the widest audience This is beneficial not only for you but also for your unit, department, faculty and university as well as your research field as a whole.

Any other benefits or scholarly values?