Technology Blog #2: Community Network

     

          By: Ari C

        The Connected Educator tells us that "personal learning networks help you leverage deeper  connections and relationships, and from those networked relationships, you grow a community of connected learners and leaders"(p.92). Community is a key aspect of a healthy career, and interests me in regards to a future career within the digital marketing landscape. A great way to build a career-centered community network, from home, is through social media.     

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        I currently prefer to utilize the social media X. This is a networking platform that hosts communities of all types and careers, even politicians.  The Connected Educator highlights that following "bloggers" of similar interests and career types, is beneficial to curating a network of commonplace. Modern day X (aka twitter) utilizes a now ai-powered algorithm to automatically curate your feed based on your user data. This means, by following those in digital marketing and similar digital creators on X, the algorithm will collect and compile connections to my career field, for me, with the fastest technology at hand. Platforms that emphasize community conversation and idea sharing, are strong key tools in the digital field I am in. 

        In chapter 6 of TCE, we are given a diagram showing the key factors for a "healthy community" in this case referring to, a healthy online networking community. A successful personal learning network, created on a platform such as the social media network X, is only healthy if its members express purpose, contribute and collaborate, and there is known sense of organization. Luckily using algorithms to curate feeds and "X spaces" allows me (and you) to organize my online platform in a way that helps me contribute to the online communities in digital marketing that I am connected to within my personal learning network. Designing these communities for careers such as digital marketing, has never been easier with the ai and automated powerful technology backing modern social media. 

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Comments

  1. Kaitlyn FreemanOctober 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM

    Ari,

    I really like how you connected Chapter 6 with your personal learning network and using ‘X’ to express your own ideas to online communities within the digital marketing field. I agree with you when you say that it is only healthy if members express purpose, contribute and collaborate. I think that stands true to all aspects of this platform, with any given career field. Especially since it is easy for some members to get carried away with how they express their thoughts and feelings through this platform.

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