Update: My Digital Presence and Identity Plan Vlogpost
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Thank you Angie for a great video!
I can totally relate since I am a contractor too and our schedules can be crazy sometimes 🙂
You mentioned that you liked some platforms more than others. Would you mind naming couple of them.
Thank you!
May
I tried Instagram without knowing much about it beyond that it is popular and that a lot of musicians seem to use it. I assumed it was similar to Facebook. What I discovered was that it is mobile-based, and focused on photography (and more recently video). I prefer for my social media to be on my computer instead of cellphone so that I can decide when to look and I can close my computer and little buzzes and dings won’t follow me around everywhere I go, distracting me. Furthermore, I don’t consider myself an avid photographer, so I don’t have a whole lot to share there.
I signed up for Twitter, and with MALAT in mind have mostly followed classmates and speakers from the symposium, although I also picked some politicians and family and friends. I don’t feel that I have that much content to post there since most of my posts on Facebook are about advertising my local music shows or sharing photos of my son, so such posting would be irrelevant to my Twitter followers since I’m connected with almost no family or people who live in my city. I am enjoying reading the newsfeed on Twitter though, especially related to our program. There’s been some informative links to click on and read more. I like this platform.
I also joined LinkedIn. Since I am not in search of a job, and I deem that is the purpose of it – an online professional resume, the platform doesn’t hold a lot of use for me. I feel very busy now, like I need less work to do! Have you noticed that you might get obscure recommendations to apply for irrelevant jobs on there? I certainly do. Mine might be because I work in industrial contracting, but I have no interest in pursuing anything along those lines that LinkedIn has suggested. An interesting and unexpected aspect of LinkedIn is the built-in blogging. I consider that to be a neat idea. I’m also curious about the online courses they now offer. I’ve taken a lot of online courses, so I have a mental note to check out what they have to offer there down the road when I have more time. I leave my account there, but I don’t know if I will do much with it for now.
This blog here is the real stretch for me. I have created a lot of visible, public, content online before. Most of it is posters for shows, songs, videos and pictures with a few descriptive words. I don’t consider myself to be a writer, and I’ve delayed furthering my education until now because there is no university in my city, and distance learning programs in my fields of broadcasting, music, and communications are so writing-based, and I’ve never enjoyed writing much. My interest and experience is in hands-on projects, creating media, making shows. I took this program because of the project-based exit pathway, but it is still very heavy on the writing! Now that I’m committed, I’m hoping to practice writing enough that I end up enjoying it or at least being decent at it… but if I weren’t in this program, I would probably delete the blog first from my digital identity – to escape from the personal discomfort lol.
Facebook really does it all for me. I’ve had it a long time. It connects me with family and friends. It fits into all four quadrants of the visitor-resident-personal-institutional map of my technology use. I use it to find temporary workers for my company, advertise music shows, post new songs, show and look at pictures of my family and extended family and friends, and there’s private messaging, I can sell things, I even found a free washing machine when mine broke right before we sold our house – I posted “anyone have a washing machine for cheap or free?” and I had plenty of response from helpful friends. This platform is not new, but it truly serves my purposes in so many ways.
Thanks for sharing your video Angie!
It is really refreshing to hear how honest you are, and how aren’t going to radically adjust your focus because you think it will get you a better grade! I think one of the challenges in this course is to not get consumed with spending time online and using every different platform. I, like you, are keen to absorb and integrate new ideas into what I do and how I project myself, while at the same time trying not to ‘change’ who I am too much!
Yes Stuart, time is a precious and non-renewable resource, and we must remain diligent in not allowing ourselves to be overly-consumed with online activity!
Great post Angie, I too have a non-standard schedule making it difficult to create a standard school schedule. I am relatively new to Linked In, and brand new to Twitter. I have decided to leave Facebook for friends and family, and create my professional digital presence in the two new platforms. Previously, Linked In was to connect with grads (and deny the unsolicited job offerings some bot continues to send!), so through this course, I’m wondering what other opportunities might be there. As you observed, Linked In offers a blog feature, so I have started to think about how I might use that. Although, if I had my communities unified in one platform like you do, I would probably need a clear reason to “fix somethin’ that ain’t broke”.
Thank you Angie for a great video!
I can totally relate since I am a contractor too and our schedules can be crazy sometimes 🙂
You mentioned that you liked some platforms more than others. Would you mind naming couple of them.
Thank you!
May
I tried Instagram without knowing much about it beyond that it is popular and that a lot of musicians seem to use it. I assumed it was similar to Facebook. What I discovered was that it is mobile-based, and focused on photography (and more recently video). I prefer for my social media to be on my computer instead of cellphone so that I can decide when to look and I can close my computer and little buzzes and dings won’t follow me around everywhere I go, distracting me. Furthermore, I don’t consider myself an avid photographer, so I don’t have a whole lot to share there.
I signed up for Twitter, and with MALAT in mind have mostly followed classmates and speakers from the symposium, although I also picked some politicians and family and friends. I don’t feel that I have that much content to post there since most of my posts on Facebook are about advertising my local music shows or sharing photos of my son, so such posting would be irrelevant to my Twitter followers since I’m connected with almost no family or people who live in my city. I am enjoying reading the newsfeed on Twitter though, especially related to our program. There’s been some informative links to click on and read more. I like this platform.
I also joined LinkedIn. Since I am not in search of a job, and I deem that is the purpose of it – an online professional resume, the platform doesn’t hold a lot of use for me. I feel very busy now, like I need less work to do! Have you noticed that you might get obscure recommendations to apply for irrelevant jobs on there? I certainly do. Mine might be because I work in industrial contracting, but I have no interest in pursuing anything along those lines that LinkedIn has suggested. An interesting and unexpected aspect of LinkedIn is the built-in blogging. I consider that to be a neat idea. I’m also curious about the online courses they now offer. I’ve taken a lot of online courses, so I have a mental note to check out what they have to offer there down the road when I have more time. I leave my account there, but I don’t know if I will do much with it for now.
This blog here is the real stretch for me. I have created a lot of visible, public, content online before. Most of it is posters for shows, songs, videos and pictures with a few descriptive words. I don’t consider myself to be a writer, and I’ve delayed furthering my education until now because there is no university in my city, and distance learning programs in my fields of broadcasting, music, and communications are so writing-based, and I’ve never enjoyed writing much. My interest and experience is in hands-on projects, creating media, making shows. I took this program because of the project-based exit pathway, but it is still very heavy on the writing! Now that I’m committed, I’m hoping to practice writing enough that I end up enjoying it or at least being decent at it… but if I weren’t in this program, I would probably delete the blog first from my digital identity – to escape from the personal discomfort lol.
Facebook really does it all for me. I’ve had it a long time. It connects me with family and friends. It fits into all four quadrants of the visitor-resident-personal-institutional map of my technology use. I use it to find temporary workers for my company, advertise music shows, post new songs, show and look at pictures of my family and extended family and friends, and there’s private messaging, I can sell things, I even found a free washing machine when mine broke right before we sold our house – I posted “anyone have a washing machine for cheap or free?” and I had plenty of response from helpful friends. This platform is not new, but it truly serves my purposes in so many ways.
Thanks for sharing your video Angie!
It is really refreshing to hear how honest you are, and how aren’t going to radically adjust your focus because you think it will get you a better grade! I think one of the challenges in this course is to not get consumed with spending time online and using every different platform. I, like you, are keen to absorb and integrate new ideas into what I do and how I project myself, while at the same time trying not to ‘change’ who I am too much!
Yes Stuart, time is a precious and non-renewable resource, and we must remain diligent in not allowing ourselves to be overly-consumed with online activity!
Great post Angie, I too have a non-standard schedule making it difficult to create a standard school schedule. I am relatively new to Linked In, and brand new to Twitter. I have decided to leave Facebook for friends and family, and create my professional digital presence in the two new platforms. Previously, Linked In was to connect with grads (and deny the unsolicited job offerings some bot continues to send!), so through this course, I’m wondering what other opportunities might be there. As you observed, Linked In offers a blog feature, so I have started to think about how I might use that. Although, if I had my communities unified in one platform like you do, I would probably need a clear reason to “fix somethin’ that ain’t broke”.