This is my plan to support the cultivation of my digital presence and digital identity throughout the MALAT program.
The goal of this plan is to network with other educators, learn from them, provide value to the network, and eventually influence them.
My approach will be to set up a Twitter account and follow people who post valuable content and insight. I’ll also set up my student blog and create content that will hopefully provide value to others. I’ll tweet about the blog posts and increase my followers.
Going into this I have strong technological skills that will be useful in setting up both Twitter and the blog. These skills will also allow me to create technical content that should provide value to others.
If I have any gaps in my experience or knowledge they might be in the area of communication or networking. I’ll continue to read in these areas to improve my skills.
My measures of success will be number of blog page hits and the number of followers and retweets on Twitter.
What a succinct and well-articulated plan! I can see how following others on Twitter would allow you to learn from them, and how your blog posts can provide value to the network, but I’m curious about how you will use Twitter and your blog to network and influence other educators. A couple suggestions for you for Twitter might be to retweet interesting or useful information you discover and to send direct messages to people you follow and invite them to follow you back (in a respectful, non-spammy way!). For your blog, you might offer to guest blog on someone else’s site, and leaving thoughtful comments on other people’s blogs may spark their interest for them to check out your content.
To influence people I need people, who themselves have influence, reading my work and disseminating it. It doesn’t necessarily matter how many people read my work, but that the “right” people read my work. Thanks for the suggestions!
Hi Jason,
I’m looking forward to reading through your tech content, as I suspect I am (staggeringly) less tech-savvy than you. Please let me know if I can help you out with any non-tech topics like communication or content creation.
Cheers,
Terra
Hi Terra!
Thanks for the comment. I’ll keep that in mind!