Blog Post 5

Blog Post 5

Prompts

• Explore how you would create a PLN prior to building a podcast on a topic of your choice.
• Please include an exploration of how would you emulate success stories in this space and how would you use your PLN with the intent to expand your audience?
• Explore some of the privacy/security concerns to consider when developing an audience on any social media platform?
• What are the concerns for individuals who become influential in a social space?

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In week six, we discussed mainly about how to build a reliable and participatory personal learning network effectively.

From the reading material in week six, Woods lists and describes several tips of building a PLN successfully, including asking and listening from other people, leveraging technology (i.e. Social media), trying out Twitter, and looking for people similar to ours (Woods, 2013). For me, in prior to building a podcast on a topic of my choice, I would explore and join in different communities in relation to my topic by using hashtags, and follow the Twitter accounts of professionals. As Woods described, “Twitter has become a key hub in the past few years for the learning and development community world-wide” and there are many ways of using Twitter to build a PLN effectively (Woods, 2013). For example, first, I can follow my favorite experts’ Twitter accounts in order to get more inspirations professionally. Also, I can explore different online communities in relation to my favorite topics and join in on learning and development tweet chats in order to build connection and interaction to the public.

Additionally, from the discussion between Professor Miller and Mo Amir, Mo Amir also stated that Twitter can be considered as a perfect medium and help people to create some of the network successfully. Therefore, in my opinion, before building a podcast, using Twitter to create a PLN will be effective, meaningful, and important.

Also, as Mo Amir described, “if you have a guest who’s one the podcast and they have a high profile, they will share it with their followers obviously, so more people will see it and their followers will see and listen to the podcast” Therefore, based on this point, in my opinion, in order to use my PLN with the intent to expand my audience, it will be important and meaningful for me to make sure my tweets are professional and can reflect my own personality as well.

In my opinion, when developing an audience on any social media platform, it will be very important for people to consider about the privacy and security concerns in some parts. First, when creating the personal profile on social media platforms, such as Twitter and Instagram, we need to pay more attention to set up our personal information like cellphone number and location. Also, it’s worth noting that our IP addresses can be mapped to specific locations and a string of IP addresses can give a sense of our movement over time as well; therefore, it may cause potential risks of privacy to us. Second, when sending messages in public by using social media tools, it will be also important to delete all location information, especially when we want to tag location to photos.

In my opinion, the privacy and security concerns, such as setting up personal profile and turning off the photo tagging,  will also be important and valuable for individuals who become influential in a social space because it can help them to protect their personal information online directly through social media tools.

References

EDCI 338 (2020). EDCI 338 – A01 Building a Podcast. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyODAhviQyA

Woods, B. (2013). Building your own PLN: seeking new insights and ideas? Expand your personal learning network. Retrieved from:  https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A348998538/ITBC?u=uvictoria&sid=ITBC&xid=9daf4a31