- If your PLN can be used to help professional development post-course?
- Can your PLN be relied on to open professional opportunities and on which platform does your emerging expertise get good exposure?
- Can you leverage your PLN in future endeavours?
- With consideration to the reading and video interview, how do you ensure that you expand your PLN via social media platforms into spaces that may be outside of your comfort zone?
I think PLN is a tool that is very in line with the development of modern technology. We can meet many people in the same field or the same hobby in PLN. Everyone can exchange ideas and learn from each other. We can build our own digital image in PLN. PLN can completely help professional development after the course. As long as we continue to use PLN and maintain a certain frequency, we can always keep in touch with other users and carry out more in-depth communication and development.
Yes, PLN can help us open up professional opportunities in many places. Different platforms are suitable for different types of PLN. Like YouTube can help us get good exposure in the field of video shooting and production. LinkedIn can be used as a platform for many job seekers to show their professional knowledge and work experience. And Twitter is like a platform for people who like to share life details and have social needs.
I can use PLN in my future work. I think PLN is a good tool that can help us keep sharing and learning. We can look for people with the same field or work nature as ours in future work. PLN is the best tool for us to communicate with each other. Many work problems, professional field problems, and work experience can be well communicated and used. Professionals of different cultures, nationalities, and backgrounds can be connected by PLN. We should establish a good personal digital image in PLN to attract more “similars”.
After establishing a personal PLN, there will definitely be many different voices. If there are people who like us, there will be people who hate us. The expansion of PLN beyond the comfort zone through social media platforms faces many unknowns. For example, we don’t know whether we will be attacked by others’ words. What is our purpose? And what is the meaning of doing so, etc. It is this kind of unknown that makes us scared. But as Glauser mentioned, we don’t know how others will think of us. But in any case, PLN is helpful to us. Maybe we should learn to cover our ears at some point. Amber is right. We must insist on doing something right, even if it is “imperious” in the eyes of others (2020).
Resources:
A Global PLN – Supporting One Another – Course YouTube Channel https://youtu.be/RiWaXNfnHAg
Social Media and Emerging Economies Technological, Cultural and Economic Implications – Chapter 5 – From Information Society to Network Society: The Challenge https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-02490-5_5