Whenever I think about my professional career, something that frequently comes around is how to effectively leverage the PLN for professional growth. According to Del Giudice, Della Peruta, and Carayannis (2013), professionals can rely on PLN for professional development after graduating because the PLN has become key in the development, growth, and connection of innovators, educators, business people, and policy makers. Although someone can start a podcast without an audience, the PLN provides a great opportunity to acquire an audience. This is because nearly all people in a region, city, or even country are in some way connected through different media platforms. In my PLN, it is possible to grow the popularity of my podcast, starting from my school, city, district, and possibly nationally in the future. Presently, I have come to know some people who have professional experience, knowledge, and exposure in various fields. The PLN provides a way of contacting those people either through message, call, email, or via their friends. It is possible to invite these professionals to contribute to my podcast by sharing their knowledge, experience, and exposure. Twitter and LinkedIn provides the best mediums to connect with professionals, but Facebook, Voxer, and Instagram can also be useful. According to Amir and Miller 2021), the most important requirement is to keep in touch with people in my PLN by sharing and sharing their posts as well as ensuring that they know who I am, what I do, and where they can find me. In my opinion, my PLN can be relied on to open and expand professional opportunities.
References
Del Giudice, M., Della Peruta, M. R., & Carayannis, E. G. (2013). Social media and emerging economies: Technological, cultural and economic implications. Springer Science & Business Media. https://link-springer-com.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-02490-5.
Amir, M., & Miller, J. (2021). EDCI PODCAST – 2021-10-24 Mo Amir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgoDet6pwaI&ab_channel=MILLER.
Hi Jiaqui!
Great point about how after you graduate you can rely on your PLN for purposes such as connecting, policy making, innovating, and educating! Definitely using Twitter as your PLN for promoting your Podcast would be very beneficial! The podcast community on Twitter is quite huge, and I’m sure depending on your topic of discussion on your podcast, there is a smaller community talking about similar things! Definitely agree that it is very important to remain active with your PLN by sharing others posts and writing ones yourself. Over time this can help build credibility and reliability. Great post this week!
I agree with you very much. PLN is an effective means for professionals to show their various abilities. I recently used LinkedIn to build my own PLN. Here I can enrich my experience, show my ability and attract people in the same field. Through this website, we can have a basic understanding of each other and expand the scope of making friends.