This week we have the opportunity to have Mo Amir as our guest speaker. Mo is a podcast host of This is VANCOLOR, a commentator at CKNW, a columnist for Vancouver is Awesome, and a general manager in the forestry sector. Mo talked about how he started in podcast, and how he expending and leveraged his PLNs when he first started in the podcast. Twitter plays an important role to advance his online presence while he first started on the podcast. With Twitter, Mo is able to communicate with many people from the local area and across the country. He mentioned that how to make the correct use of social media is an indispensable part of PLNs development. With a process set in place, you will do much better at achieving quick, quality results. He also explains the importance of online reputation. Establishing credit may take a long time, but destroying credit may be a matter of a moment, so be sure to cherish your credit.
After this week, I think I still have a long way to go on using my PLN to help professional development post-course. I have only created similar network connections on a few social platforms, and I rarely interact with others on the medium. The limitation to consider is the simplex structure of my PLNs. All the connections I have are with people that I have already known for years.
I believe that I can rely on to open professional opportunities with my PLN in the future. PLN contains a huge network and provides potentials for your future development. You could be connected with people around the world, which means there would be more opportunities available to you. To demonstrate, my current PLN helps to know people who are out of school and working in the marketing industry for years. We have mutual friends on Facebook, which allowed us to be connected even we had not met each other before.
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