Month: February 2021

Community engagement is public communications – what are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from with messaging that impacts the community?

There are many benefits by using PLN in social media, and it is the fastest way to spread your ideas to others. People can easily have more follower if they have good idea and useful information on their PLN. Moreover, social media has huge impact on public communication. People are free to share their idea with others online, and it is the most effective way to get everyone involved in the communities. As technology developed, the information exchange is much faster than before. For example, the quickest way of receiving information and news is watching tv in 20 years ago. As time passed social media becomes an information exchange platform with no geographical restrictions and has contributed huge impact on advocacy communities. In other words, people can learn many different thing or experience from other advocacy communities, which can push the community forward to the next level.

– How does social media engage in advocacy communications?
Social media can be extremely useful if people have good judgement. In other words, people have to distinguish between right and wrong because there are many fake news on social media. Sometime, social media can be a double-edged sword.

How to better use social media to Build PLN – Influencers & Commentators
In my opinion, A good PLN depends on its content. A useful content often makes whole PLN attractive. Moreover, giving your own thought is very important as well.

Works Cited

Clark, Jessica, and Patricia Aufderheide. “A New Vision for Public Media: Open, Dynamic, and Participatory.” Media and Social Justice, PDF file , Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, pp. 55-67.

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PLN stand for Personal Learning Network, and it is an informal group of people who you learn things from on a regular basis (Bianca,2013). Moreover, we can understand PLN as platform for group of people to exchange information and idea to help you learn things. PLN can be built very easy as social media developed well. However, PLN has many disadvantages as well. For example, there are many fake news and information on PLN, and some of them can mislead people to a wrong direction. Therefore, the knowledges and information cannot be 100% trust, and people need to have a clear mind to analyzed information. I want my PLN becomes a platform of information exchange that can benefit and help everyone with useful information. During my university study life, I want share many experiences on learning skills.

Work Cited

Woods, Bianca. “Building your own PLN: seeking new insights and ideas? Expand your personal learning network.” T+D, vol. 67, no. 11, Nov. 2013, p. 70+. Gale OneFile: Business, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A348998538/ITBC?u=uvictoria&sid=ITBC&xid=1010abdf.

What digital platforms are students currently using to develop their professional network?

Nowadays, students can use many digital platforms such as YouTube, Indeed. LinkedIn, and Google to develop their professional network. Some of the digital platforms like Google and YouTube has huge impact on student’s learning. Students can get all the information they need for research paper from google. For digital platforms like LinkedIn and Indeed, it can help student to find job, and it is also a great platform for employers. Therefore, student will have more opportunity, and their professional network can be developed as well.
What can you (as a student) consider to expand your professional learning network?

As a student, I often use google and YouTube to expand my professional learning network. There are “infinite” resources on Google you can use for your research. Moreover, YouTube can be other Great platform that expand my professional learning network. For example, there are many Videos on YouTube that can guide me through all different question.

In your network, how can you create a digital identity/reputation?

Creating digital Identity/ reputation requires Frequent participation online, which means I have to contribute a lot like leave thoughtful common under other people’s blog.

Consider what a local employer would do if you applied for a job with them – can they search the content, is it of benefit to the career path, does it hinder the opportunity of employment?

In my opinion, All the employers want to hired a person with positive energy and good reputation. A good reputation in digital world can creates a very good impression before the interview, which can increase the probability of job applied. However, Positive reputation in digital world is just a bonus mark for everyone, and it is not requirement for most of the jobs.