Blog Post #7 – Community engagement is public communications

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?

In social media sharing, diversity means finding people who have different perspectives and come from other places and backgrounds. Various forms of communication have made it easier than ever for people from different backgrounds to connect. It transcends traditional differences like gender, race, or ethnicity. Diversity and inclusion initiatives support the recognition that everyone is different. Social media reinforces this fact, showing that we are more connected and have more in the joint when we use other platforms to communicate. We can find common ground, share experiences, and solve problems in new ways. Online participation offers many opportunities for participants to communicate in different places at different times.

PLN creates an online interactive learning space with specific topics for people in the same field to share information. Social media has become the number one means of communication. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram all have their ways of spreading the word. For example, Facebook has public homepages on specific topics; Twitter has hashtags, and we can search for topics we are interested in and see the most popular news. These topic tags allow people from different backgrounds to find each other and communicate differently. The most popular on Instagram is the story, whose short videos enable people to browse through their favorite things quickly. Compared to TikTok, Instagram is more of an Internet celebrity. These are the best tools for delivering information promptly.