For me, a PLN is meant to be a repertoire of information and knowledge.
The PLN can be used to house all the information that may be relevant to the social media campaign.
For example, for a social media campaign on sustainability, it’s important that the PLN has all the contents of the campaign. There can be pages on how sustainability can be achieved, the different kinds of sustainability and why sustainability would be important.
These examples could then be further developed into social media posts that can help reach out to users. Individuals would then participate in promoting the campaign by liking the post and sharing their comments on the post.
Therefore, by organizing all the available information that users may find interesting, the social media campaign will have greater success.
Inclusion in a professional setting can often involve including all coworkers regardless of their backgrounds in workplace responsibilities.
This is important because the office environment may have principles surrounding inclusion and diversity that can be celebrated by the employees.
In the office, social media can help facilitate communication channels that can help with employees in both work and social activities. Social media becomes an extension of how communication is conducted.
There can be important policies and news being shared on inclusion and diversity within the workplace. This will help ensure that the image of the company is also established on social media.
Social media within the workplace can also be used to interact with clients and customers, further promoting the policies and guidelines of the company. Social media helps provide a platform in which messages regarding inclusivity and diversity can be more easily shared with different stakeholders.
For this week, we learned about visitor and resident maps. We delve into further considerations of how much we are interacting with these different social media platforms. Upon my reflection, I realized that I have a good spread of different platforms that I use.
Most of the systems I use for work on a regular basis do not keep track of my data in any capacity. This means I am free to use them without fear that there would be a digital trail for what I am doing, including some mistakes or personal information from others.
Instead, I find that social media platforms are tracking my data usage. For example, YouTube and Spotify both make recommendations based on what I am watching and listening to in order to make a guess on what content I might enjoy. As a result, I find these systems more intrusive. However, I still continue to use them despite this.
I think it’s important that we think about what our convenience is costing us, rather than simply surrender our data whenever we use these systems. With enough usage, we may have given enough data to these large companies over a span of a number of years.
After talking about our personal learning networks last week, it’s important for us to examine how our digital identity takes shape as a result of our engagement with these personal learning networks.
Just like our own personal identities, our digital identity can be thought of as our personas online. Spracklen (2015) and Saira et al. (2019) highlight how such an identity can be constructed and maintained. Social media has been a great tool for doing this, as it can be clear an individual may operate in the workplace or other settings based on their social media profiles.
Eric Stoller (2016) defined digital identity as an identity that is composed of everything that a person does online. Whatever you post, share, and your overall presence online. The kind of things that you look at while you’re online, how you engage with these online platforms and interact with other all encompasses your digital identity.
Stoller likened it to the digital footprint that exists on the internet for you personal. Any work or publishing information that you share on the internet becomes part of this identity that follows you around. This can become almost like your personal brand, advertising potential employers or other stakeholders into understanding the kind of person that you are.
My digital identity is primarily house on social media platforms such as Instagram and LinkedIn. My professional identity and work history is on LinkedIn and everyone is able to see this. My more personal life is on Instagram, which is private and only shared with close friends and families. This keeps my professional image separate from my personal image. What kind of digital identity do you have and what are the platforms that you use?
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