What are the benefits of a diverse and inclusive PLN in social media sharing that understands where you are coming from with messaging that impacts the community?
Having a diverse Personalized Learning Network helps connect people from different communities of people that can come together for a similar component that is diverse in nature but inclusive in thoughts and perspective. An interview with Markiel Simpson highlights a very prominent ideology and approach to how he interacts with a social media platform like Twitter and Instagram. On Instagram, he has two separate accounts for himself. One where it is private where I believe he shares content within his circle of acquaintances and another account @TeamMarkel for public content sharing. In the interview, he shares with Jesse, how he has been developing his voice for over a year, and sometimes, the content resonates with people, and other times they do not. His engagements fluctuate between 0-200 followers per post/tweet. The constant message that he is “famous” for, is his use of a consistent hashtag of #strongertogether and #togetherwerise has expanded his inclusivity to people of color within British Columbia. This empowering move allows a great call to action. For example, recently he has managed to group a bunch of students to help speak up on a matter regarding education. Furthermore, these personalized hashtags and call to action prompt help highlight his needs and wants to especially to empower more people in the community to encourage their own thinking to stand up for what they believe in.
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