My PLN is essential in helping professional post-course of individuals since its constituted of members who have different knowledge about particular issues. Effective PLN derives members from social media, a more accessible medium enabling essential discussions (Giudice et al., 2013, p. 53). Having members with different knowledge in a PLN helps to complement each other and adds the value of information to the group (Maryland Educator, 2016). Members of my PLN facilitate professional development post course by having knowledge abilities in business, professional opportunities, and relationships. The benefits of my PLN are that members come from different cultures around the globe. It is vital to have a world view when constituting a PLN using social media while focusing on the local impact to benefit from the knowledge of every group member.

My PLN can be anticipated to open professional opportunities because of the diversity of members in the group. Since members know different areas of expertise, it is easy to get information that gets used for professional opportunities. The PLN I am involved in emphasizes looking at issues from a local to international perspective to cover issues affecting society effectively. Members in my PLN come from different careers making discussions to be professional, and members can benefit from a wide range of information. My PLN provides open professional opportunities through social media by focusing on diversity.

  Maintaining a global perspective while focusing on the local impact is essential while building a PLN utilizing social media to use all group members’ pooled expertise fully. Networking with a world view and focusing on local impact in PLNs helps to compare and contrast problems and ideas affecting society. PLNs must concentrate on macro and micro issues to be practical on members’ knowledge. Compiling any PLN must include members with different expertise and abilities to display local and global views.

References

Giudice, M. D., Peruta, D., & Carayannis, E. G. (2013). Social media and emerging economies: Technological, cultural and economic implications. Springer.

Maryland Educator. (2016, October 6). A Global PLN – Supporting One Another [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHi7aHpvc0

  Media literacy is critically examining and assessing the message conveyed through broadcasting. It is essential to have media literacy so as not to get confused by the data from the media. Individuals can get mixed up with the press and misinterpret the news (Trilling & Fadel, 2009, p. 53). The public must have the media literacy to protect the interpretation of essential facts intended for the community. Understanding what is coming from the media makes it a functional sector that contributes positively to society (Smith, 2021). It is necessary to acquire media literacy to comprehend the real social issues represented in the media.

  Media literacy is dismissed because individuals think analyzing the information conveyed through the media is unimportant. Most people trust the media and believe that every news and data coming from it is factual (Smith, 2021). Sometimes media entities make mistakes, and the ability to scrutinize and fact-check the report can benefit an individual. A PLN that values media literacy is essential because members can discuss factual and verifiable information, thus minimizing misleading news (Trilling & Fadel, 2009, p. 76). Because PLN greatly influences individuals, members should know about data from the media to educate and inform each other appropriately.

  Media literacy is necessary to understand the real societal issues reported in the media. It is vital to target factual agreement in a PLN to avoid misguiding members. Embracing verifiable information is essential in educating PLN members in educational terms. Since education needs facts, members of PLN should only focus on information that can develop the knowledge of others. Fact-checking techniques can positively affect members’ knowledge capacity and boost their education levels. Media literacy must be adopted in all learning groups to embrace how individuals learn completely.

References

Smith, J. (2021, June 8). Facts Matter [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57r3-aEnci0

Trilling, B., & Fadel, C. (2009). 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life In Our Times. Wiley Publishers.

PLNs are essential in helping the development of thoughts in the education sector. The PLNs also can hinder personal views due to other people’s influence. Interactions through PLNs can positively or negatively influence its members (Baker, 2021). The learning networks help the development of thoughts and ideas in education discourse by helping share information throughout the group. Individuals can access ideas they did not have from others and help them understand different concepts that are difficult to comprehend during solo learning (Couros, 2010, p. 112). In terms of PLNs hindering the thoughts and ideas of individuals in a learning discourse, some ideas can make individuals stop following the right concepts and adapt to philosophies that are not necessary for the learning field. PLNs are essential in educating individuals in a particular sector and should be used well to benefit the members.

Educators can create discourse by choosing a topic relevant for discussion, PLN. The members must be competent in researching the themes chosen to enable a conversation and discuss them. Social media plays a significant role in education because of its nature of sharing information instantly (Couros, 2010, p. 120). Individuals can discuss ideas using social media and access the data for reference. YouTube, Twitter, and Reddit are a few social media sites with educational value (Baker, 2021). Social media helps to complement students’ knowledge individually or in class and emphasize the areas that are difficult to understand.

PLNs are essential for training people in a particular industry, and they must get utilized efficiently for the benefit of the members. Despite its advantages, social media can have problems in terms of communication in the education sector. The spread of misinformation from individuals can misguide scholars. It is essential to create fact-checking mechanisms to enable students to confirm what they are learning on social media. PLNs benefit students when they get managed well, so it is essential to regulate social communication for clarity and understanding.

References

Baker, B. (2021, June 10). Education in a Connected Culture [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/C5z8iHxW2n4

Couros, A. (2010). Developing Personal Learning Networks for Open and Social Learning. Emerging technologies in distance education, 2010, 109-127.

For well-known people, social media is crucial since it facilitates communication with their community. Notable people communicate with their audiences on social media by sharing videos, pictures, and writings. Social media helps famous people instantly communicate with a large population and get immediate feedback (Hirst, 2018, p. 78). Prominent individuals can assess their impact on society by having a good PLN. Influential people in the community may benefit from selling their goods through their PLN and gain advantages that will expand their influence. Influential people use social media to inform their followers about their activities and build their community. An online presence is a crucial tool for assisting prominent people in maintaining their influence while building a community that benefits from their actions in life.

Creating an online community with the employers’ apparatuses can limit the employee. The employee gets restricted to only talking about the activities of the organization. Engaging the online community on other issues is challenging since they want to be involved in discussions on topics that may influence their relationship with the company (Hirst, 2018, p. 78). The company’s online community can benefit the employee by helping to create selling and marketing skills. Having people in a PLN that understand their roles and are serious about delivering correct information is crucial in maintaining a reliable online social media presence.

Online presence by individuals through PLN creation is crucial in building a community that can be relied upon effectively. It is also vital to minimize misinformation by having fact-checkers in an individual’s PLN to verify the information given to people. PLNs are essential aspects of social media because they group people according to their preferences. PLNs increase the knowledge of individuals in different subjects; hence it is crucial to share correct information in the networks to foster a knowledgeable community.

References

Hirst, M. (2018). Navigating social journalism: A handbook for media literacy and citizen journalism. Routledge.

Social media platforms must be diverse and inclusive, particularly in forming PLNs. Diversity and inclusivity help people understand people’s perspectives in a PLN. It is simpler to grasp each person’s viewpoints when people from various backgrounds are gathered in a PLN. People from many distinct groups impact the community since everyone’s interests are represented (Clark & Aufderheide, 2011, p. 55). Social media’s capacity to facilitate communication makes creating diverse PLNs in terms of people’s backgrounds, genres, and opinions simpler. Social media has changed the management of traditional media in engagement (Clark & Aufderheide, 2011, p. 56). To improve communication that influences society, social media and conventional media must work together on inclusiveness.

The change in traditional media must include the public to increase diversity and value opposing viewpoints. The inclusion of the public can be implemented through social media (Clark & Aufderheide, 2011, p. 55). Social media allows users to create PLNs that become forums for discussing essential matters that affect the community. Including diversity in PLNs makes a community’s opinions relevant, leading to an impactful society. Social media puts traditional forms of communication to the test by forcing users to communicate directly with one another without the need for a third party to filter or influence the content.

  It is simple to include the perspectives of persons in traditional media by promoting diversity and inclusiveness in PLNs on social media platforms. People’s opinions are important, and everyone’s view gets considered during discussions in my PLN. Employers anticipate that PLNs will help manage workplace operations to support executive, customer, and employer involvement. Forming social media groups as PLNs is vital for influencers to promote their agenda because they can reach a wider group of people. Commentators can engage with their audience by creating PLNs on social media platforms. As everyone’s perspective is given in PLNs, it is crucial to consider diversity and inclusion to impact the community.

References

Clark, J., & Aufderheide, P. (2011). A new vision for public media. Media and Social Justice, 55-67. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230119796_5

Establishing status and trust in a related culture can have difficulties, especially when individuals want others to help them solve specific problems. Individuals who help solve problems should have characteristics aligned with the objective (Woods, 2021). The entities selected should get ready to offer their knowledge concerning the subject without any issues and must be willing to work in a group. The assembled individuals belong to different Personal Learning Networks (PLN) depending on their primary professional abilities (Lui, 2021). The people in the group must be capable of adding value to the intended goal. Placing a group of people in a PLN must consider the abilities of the individuals, including their character in teams of liveliness, consistency, and level of engagement.

I am building a network of people with distinct abilities to fulfill the missing links I have in accomplishing my professional goal. Considering the level of engagement that the people have is my main rule in combining these people Having a healthy relationship with individuals in my PLN is the most critical aspect because benefiting from their knowledge depends on how we interact with each other (Lui, 2021). Having people in a PLN with the same vision must work together to achieve a common goal is vital. I am taking advantage of healthy relationships with the people in the PLN to learn from their abilities as much as possible.

Grouping people in a PLN must consider their abilities of interaction, and good relationships between the members help in helping the aims of the network to be easily achieved. In putting up a group of professionals, I considered everyone’s character and how they were willing to give their knowledge to the group. Each individual is friendly and is ready to explain their ideas most sincerely.   An effective PLN is essential for building knowledge since groups can contribute their opinions, enabling individuals to upscale their content in different subjects.

References

Lui, S. (2021, February 8). Social Media and News Hour Journalism [Youtube]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/wfcXgKLzOVM

Woods, B. (2021). Building your own PLN: seeking new insights and ideas? Expand your personal learning network, 67 (11). Retrieved from https://go-gale- com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/ps/i.do?p=ITBC&u=uvictoria&id=GALE|A348998538&v=2.1&it=r&sid=sum mon

Having an internet presence is vital in maintaining the relevancy of an organization, especially in social media, because of the broader coverage of the interested audience. Social media helps to create a Professional Learning Network, which is essential in helping individuals to keep a circle of interested parties involved in the same discipline (Miller, 2021). Having diverse social media brings out the benefits of access to a range of professionals in PLN with different abilities that can benefit personal careers (Moore, 2017). The diversity of my PLN involves the networks that cover my abilities, contributing to my professional life. In my business setting, social media plays a huge role in helping to create messages of inclusivity by grouping interested parties and assisting in exchanging goods and services among our community.

The diversity of voices in my PLN is vital in learning sophisticated skillsets in my professional work and helping in understanding the views of others. Interaction with people on my social media platforms has given me the confidence to discuss my progress and career challenges (Moore, 2017). The learning outcome of my PLN has contributed to my different developing strategies to improve my performance in my profession (Miller, 2021). Having benefited from the PLN on social media, I have set out various measures to increase my exposure to diversity and inclusion. I have joined different professional groups on social media that are inclined to my interest as a profession; the groups are on Twitter, Linked in, and Facebook.

Belonging to various PLNs using social media has allowed me to meet like-minded people who have developed my skillset and exposed me to new ideas. My thinking about inclusion has evolved by bringing a perspective that working in groups is much more beneficial than operating alone. Social media is essential for inclusion in a professional setting because it brings together like-minded people in a seeming less manner that makes communication easy to manage. Using social media helps to group people in the categories of their abilities and talents, which helps improve the input of individuals to their professions, including the business community.

References

Miller. (2021, May 30). PLN Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Media [Video]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSV0rUl1bA

Moore, S. (2017). One without the other. Stories of unity through diversity and inclusion. Retrieved from https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/reader.action?docID=4832579&ppg=11

Digital platforms are important in helping students enhance and create professional work that organizations and society largely need. A digital platform is where professionals exchange their skills or goods using the internet. Students must use numerous existing digital platforms to increase their network advantages. Scholars use digital platforms because they need to develop their marketing and outsourcing skills to build a professional portfolio that they will depend on in their future endeavors.

Some important digital platforms used frequently by students include social media apps like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Students could consider adopting various digital practices to expand their professional learning work. The consideration should include learning how to market their profession in the digital space. Students could ensure they can access all social media platforms to reach a wider market. Data privacy and security can limit professional learning networks because students fear that the platforms might spy on them and are not encouraged to use the podiums.

Using the digital space by students is important for learning more skills about a particular profession and strengthening the already acquired skill to reach a wider marketplace. In my Network, creating a digital identity is easy because an individual only needs to create a profile picture, a description of their skills and upload relevant Curriculum Vitae (CV). The CV is used to prove the individual’s professional network qualification. An employer would respond well when they assess my social media presence through my digital identity because I have put all the requirements needed to display my work. On social media, I have put a link to my qualifications and uploaded some of my work on the digital platform. Digital platforms are important in helping the public and employers to scrutinize their employees, making it easy for recruitment.

What is a digital identity?

Digital identity is a trendy yet vague concept. It can be defined as an individual’s or group’s appearance and footprint in the web-based or online realm, including how one utilizes digital tools and engages in such surroundings. Digital identity is displayed in the posts shared on online platforms, in the form of tweets, portfolios, and blogs, among many others (University of Derby, 2016). Through such posts, the public—like an organization- perceives an individual’s personality and can use this digital identity to make decisions regarding the person or group.

How do personal versus professional approaches to digital identity affect social media use?

There are a few key ways in which professional and personal approaches to digital individuality can impact the utilization of social media. First, suppose someone is using social media primarily for personal reasons. In that case, they may be more likely to share information that is not work-related or inappropriate for a professional context. This can lead to problems if the person’s employer has strict policies about what can and cannot be shared on social media. Second, people using social media for professional reasons may be more likely to carefully curate their online presence, from how they present themselves to the types of content they share (Spracklen, 2015). This can lead to a more polished and professional online persona, which can benefit networking and a positive reputation. Finally, people employing social platforms for personal reasons might be more likely to interact with friends and family. In contrast, people using social media for professional reasons may be more likely to interact with colleagues, clients, or customers. This can affect the types of interactions people have on social media and the types of relationships they develop.

How do digital identities converge in networked publics – what are the impacts and/or benefits?

Digital identities are the online identities that people use to represent themselves in the digital world. These identities can be in the form of a username, an avatar, or even just a profile picture. In recent years, these identities have converged in networked publics. This means people use the same digital identity across multiple platforms, such as social media, email, and online banking.

There are several benefits to this convergence of digital identities. First, it makes it easier for people to keep track of their online presence. Second, it allows people to build a more consistent and cohesive online persona. Third, it can help people connect with others with similar interests. Finally, it can make it easier for people to find and communicate with friends and family online. There are also some potential impacts of this convergence of digital identities. First, it could make people feel they must present a particular image of themselves online. Second, it could make people feel they have to share more personal information than they are comfortable with (Mahboob et al., 2019). Third, it could lead to people being more easily tracked and monitored online. Finally, it could make people more susceptible to identity theft and other online crimes. Overall, the convergence of digital identities in networked publics has benefits and potential impacts. People must be aware of both when creating and using their online identities.