What are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from when messaging impacts the community?
It is necessary to have a diverse and inclusive PLN as it allows for the inclusion, and opportunity to have input from all different types of individuals all over the world. By having these aspects added to your PLN, people from all over the world, no matter the background have the opportunity to feel a part of something. Whether it be different ethnic backgrounds, gender, language, etc, inclusive and diverse PLN’s create a wide range of opportunities for others to learn as well, growing not only the knowledge of others from all over the world but also allowing people to open their minds and learn about different cultures all over the world.
The interview “Community Communications” interview with Markiel Simpson, who is a man of color, going throughout life living with disabilities uses his experiences to discuss, teach, and share how his perspectives on certain issues which he goes through every day, need to be looked at and heard by the greater population. Markiel has taken social media and used his PLN on Twitter in a professional account in which he uses his platform to talk about and share his take on, and perspective of the specific passionate issues that he wants the larger population to be made aware of. Although Markiel did not receive a large number of followers at once, by was constantly active and continued to share his voice. By creating specific hashtags about his account, and the topics that he was discussing such as “#togetherwerise” and #strongertogether”, Markiel used as a tool to connect with the people who also would be interested in hashtags that related to this topic, hoping that they would stumble across his page. One of the main things that Markiel knew was that the success of his profile would not happen overnight but, knowing that the people who were interested and wanted to help change the views of others about specific issues such as Markiel would find his page and support him. Markiel is very smart in the ways in which he used his PLN’s to his advantage. By understanding that making his pages diverse in using different hashtags he knew that his account would be stumbled upon by the public helping him to get his ideas out there.
tanvirmanak
Hi Ryann. Great post! You’re blog post teaches me that you can’t make a difference overnight. If you want to spread awareness you have to work at it for months before you can create change. Referring to your entry on Markiel Simpson, he didn’t become “popular” on social media relatively quickly. He had to put in the work by staying active on social media and curating hashtags that related to his topics.