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?
The benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN is providing everyone of different backgrounds the chance to be heard. Adopting diversity in your PLN gathers individuals with different careers, religions, race, education etc. When your PLN also is inclusive it creates an environment where all voices are given the chance to be heard. Both diversity and inclusiveness allow individuals to feel supported. In the interview with Markiel Simpson he talks about the importance of continuing to advocate and amplify voices within the community. This can be achieved through a simple retweet on an individual’s post. Retweeting spreads the message to other followers who may not have been educated on the topic.
There are numerous benefits and risks to sharing your own thoughts and opinions on social media. A benefit can include bringing awareness to a specific issue that is important to you. This can also create a space to gather individuals who are also passionate about the same topic as you. This also ties into being a potential risk, due to individuals being further educated on a specific topic than you are. If you use the wrong terminology or not express the full context to your tweet it can be misinterpreted wrong. As Markiel Simpson points out it is important to build up “alliances and allegiances and work in a tactful way so that you don’t have people” going against you. It is important to use appropriate language and provide context in order to achieve expressing your thoughts within social media in a respectful way.
I interacted with Zhefu and Tanvir’s blog post this week!
Reference
Miller. (2021, June 1). EDCI-338 MARKIEL SIMPSON. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsoDHGaXNNs
October 30, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Hi Kyla! I definitely agree with you that it’s very important to use appropriate language and provide necessary context when sharing opinions on social media. This allows people to understand and be more open to your perspective, which fosters an inclusive PLN. This also eliminates any negative discussion that could result from sharing an opinion on social media and helps create a positive environment where people feel safe to share personal views and perspectives on issues at hand. Overall, great post!
Caitlin
November 8, 2021 at 4:42 pm
Hi Caitlin!
Thanks for the response this week! I appreciate your feedback 🙂
October 31, 2021 at 2:37 am
Hi Kyla, thanks for the post! I agree that diversity and gathering people who have different points of view are essential. At times, this may mean bringing in people who disagree with you. This can be risky since it can create divisions, but I believe people grow stronger when they have discussions over disagreements, and you learn a lot more that way. Sometimes, alliances are where you least expect them. Thank you!
November 8, 2021 at 4:45 pm
Hi Chloe!
Thanks for the feedback! I definelty agree that brining in ideas opposite from your views can result in division and that this occurrence can strengthen individual knowledge!
October 31, 2021 at 5:31 am
Hi, Kyla
In your blog about the benefits of having a diverse PLN, you strives for diversity and inclusivity so that more voices can be heard. As we know, there are many voices in a room, but the more people who hear them, the more likely they are to actually get their message across. You help to increase awareness of the diversity of your PLN by re-tweeting posts about topics that feel other people in your PLN may not be educated on. This helps not only bring awareness to certain topics, but it allows these voices who often times may be muted to be heard. You leveraged diversity in your campaign in an attempt for all individuals to feel supported in the experiences and what they want to share about them. People have important experiences to share, but without the opportunity to share them, they will never be heard. You made it a point to make an effort to have those voices be hear and those stories to be shared in an attempt to bring light to topics that may be overlooked had you not ensured that inclusivity and diversity were a part of her PLN.
November 8, 2021 at 4:47 pm
Hi Kevin!
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my blog post this week! I really appreciate your awesome and positive feedback! 🙂
November 22, 2021 at 2:16 am
Hi Kyla! I agree with your opinion about inclusive. Inclusive is definitely important in the social media. The Internet has gradually shrunk the world, and the distance between people is getting smaller and smaller. With the economic globalization, inclusiveness will become more and more important to achieve shared prosperity.