The purpose of this blog is to reflect on the impact my typology (groups, nets, sets, communities, and collectives) has on me and how I can create a plan to redesign my digital presence and identity. This reflection will provide recommendations on how to move forward by reconstructing my Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, and LinkedIn platforms. Over time, nodes have formed clusters of people that represent one–to–one, one–to–group, group–to–one, and many-to-many digital community relationships. This visualization can be view in my blog post Unit 3-Assignment-2 as well as in their platforms. The following social software supports all my social forms identified within this reflection and current plan.
My first plan of action will focus on my groups which are identified in the areas of human resources, Canadian and Pension Reform Act, College of Teachers (AB, BC, ON, and SK), university cohorts, sporting associations, not-for-profit Hospice, manufacturing sector, and the resort and hospitality sectors. My social network groups continue to play an important role in network forms of sociality because of the essentially one-to-one s between nodes that lead to what Rainie and Wellman (2012) refer to as “networked individualism” (Dron, & Anderson, 2014). My group network contacts have become my major stagnant gap in not growing my digital target market. I will be creating posts to my target market by using nodes of interactions to create learning experiences targeting one-to-many to start and have it grow into many-to-many over time.
The algorithms are queried by how I set up my network. “A network consists of nodes – such as people, objects, or ideas-and edges, the connections between them” (Dron, & Anderson, 2014). Going back, and confirming it is filled in correctly will allow me and others to connect with the same interests. At a minimum, I will continue to reply to birthday, anniversary and new career changes with those in my contacts so they will not drift out of my network. I will be focusing on my nodes of one-to-one and one-to-many.
My sets are made up of people who have the same interest in the new Ontario Employment Standards Act or fans of the same Jr. B Hockey team. The nodes of interaction I interact with are one-to-many, and many-to-one. When I look at my network visualization analysis, I see an overlapping of all three (group, net, and set) in my typology diagram.
“Collective provides the means for us to make sense of, in particular, sets” (Dron, & Anderson, 2014). The community of practice (CoP) can be either digital or face-to-face, examples would include Teachers teaching English as a Second Language or Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA). “Which is a group’s of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly” (Veletsianos, 2016). I attend monthly face-to-face HRPA meetings to grow my profession, as well as online in a (CoP).
My new plan identifies three areas of interest, which identifies my target markets.
- Future Regional Director of Training and Development (CTDP)
- Post Secondary students interested in the hospitality sector
- MALAT Open Education Resources, Open Learning, Digital Learning
My plan moving forward is to cultivate my digital voice and link hashtags to specific target markets to assist me in achieving my short and long-term social media professional goals. These strategies will allow me to engage in formal and informal learning.
References
Dron, J., & Anderson, T. (2014). Teaching crowds. Athabasca University Press.
Veletsianos, G. (2016). Digital learning environments. In The Wiley Handbook of Learning Technology (pp. 242–260). https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736494.ch14
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