- Identify the risks and benefits of engaging with a public audience in a media space – what are the risks for a public figure or person in a position of trust (educator, lawyer, government official)?
There are many risks and benefits that when we are engaging with a public audience in a media space. As for me, social media help me learn more experience from others. And when I talk in the community, it allows me to hear more ideas from other people. When we are engaging with a public audience, we can care about the concerns, experiences, and opinions. We create a connection that makes us more open to receiving the information or ideas that we want to share with the public audience. With all the online formats, the public audiences would be engaged. When we share any posts online, an involvement gets the audience closer to the ideas. The online community helps us to get more opinions. However, privacy online would be a risk that we need to consider. Jody Vance said that “I have really benefited so much from the foundation of my network”. We can tell the benefits that the network brought us. However, there are also some risks. One of the risks might be that personal information can be found faster on the internet. As for the person in a position of trust (educator, lawyer, government official), it will be riskier because when those people engage with the public audience the information will be more confidential. We need to look at the consequences with the person in a position of trust on the public network.
- How to best address negative replies and critiques reflective of your personal values and employer social media policy?
Social media is a public network that allows almost everyone can see the opinions or posts. We cannot stop there might be some negative replies and critiques that will affect our personal values. We still need to respect other people, we still need to be kind all the time with my response. And, we need to be thankful for the feedback. With the negative feedback, we need to focus on the mistakes that we might make, and it gives us an opportunity to learn how to express our ideas on public social media. We might also choose to ignore it. As for employer social media policy, we need to be more polite to respond to those negative replies and critiques because it might affect our work and influence our mood.
- How do notable individuals use social media?
I think for notable individual people they also share their life on the social media as well. Notable induvial people will post things that they want to share with their followers. They also need to build trust with the followers. What they post might be more attractive compare to normal people. Because people do get a lot of helpful information from them. They can share photos or videos with their followers and get general networking with other people. Notable individuals might also provide some professional information to their followers. Basically , how they use the social media is same as how normal people use it . but they need to build more trust with their followers on the public network. Jody Vance uses social media to explore more connections with other people and it also will give her more opportunities.
- What are the benefits of being in the public eye and having a PLN?
There are many benefits of being in the public eye and having a PLN. Personally, I think having a PLN can help with our career development and get many interesting ideas from others. By having a PLN, we can get connected with more people and share experiences with them. A personal learning network allows me to personalize my learning and let me choose the topic that I want to focus on. What’s more, it can also help me to build relationships by asking questions and will get valuable resources from followers on public networks. Having the public eye helps me to connect with others and also get some of the professional ideas.
- Building community with online tools provided by the employer can be limiting, what are the perceived restrictions and benefits?
When building a community with online tools provided by the employer is usually very limited. People cannot talk on the community that freely when it comes to with the work areas. However , there are still many benefits that helps with the working online community. When building a working community, I think it is easy for the employee to switch schedules and the requirements can be discussed more efficiently. It usually has some restrictions that the employee can post in the community. The management team usually will set up online settings and monitor some of the private conversations when it happens with the working community. However, when building the working community. People tend to have more connections with other people, it might be helpful for their future career development.
- Delivering information in a connected society requires verifiable resources, how to build a PLN to rely on?
When we want to build a PLN that we can reply to, it is important to provide the references on social media. When other people look at your information, they will think it is accurate information and build trust with what you post online. With this process, it is helpful to start to build our own PLN and trust with the followers. We can also provide proof to our followers. Given the accurate information that the followers can be found is important to build trust.
- How do those, who are veteran storytellers, minimize the risk of sharing misinformation?
The veteran storytellers did not experience what happened so that their information might be at risk. People tend to tell the story a little bit differently from time to time. This is how it likely to be that a movie is talking about the true story that happened before. However, without the actual experience. The information might be different. One way that I can think of to minimize the risk in sharing misinformation is that when telling a story by asking the people who experienced it. It is very important. And expand the PLN with reliable resources can also lower the risk of sharing misinformation.
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Great post! I agree with using online tools to switch shifts between workers. It becomes beneficial when one can post in a groupchat for a shift to be covered rather than texting or calling everyone individually. If you ran a company, would you provide more online tools? or keep it to the staff?
Hi rianneyun , thank you for commenting my posts. Yeah using online tools to switch shifts between workers is so convenient. If I ran a company , I think I will also provide more online tools. It is faster in this way !
I enjoyed reading your post this week! I related to the point you made about how employees may not be able to talk freely on online tools provided by the employer, I also had a point relating to this on my post. I talked about how employees (like myself) often hold themselves back because they want to maintain a professional presence and therefore you have to restrict your true self. Curiously speaking, do you think there is a way, where us the employees could communicate “more freely” on those online tools, or do you think professionalism has to be maintained event though it is suppose to be a community environment where we are suppose to interact with each other?
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I would love to see people have the same point with me . It is true that when the community becomes with the work area and we have to be restrict to ourselves. I think without the management team. The employees could communicate “more freely ” with the online tools ! People always will be strict to themselves when it comes to the working area and to their mangers.