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?

It is necessary to have a diverse and inclusive PLN in order to make everyone feel included when it comes to discussing important issues. By everyone, I am referring to the audience, colleagues, and people across the world that can access your PLN. As discussed in my blog post #3, PLN & Inclusion, a diverse PLN can be used to broaden one’s view of inclusion and can allow for everyone to come together. It further allows everybody to engage in conversation and allows people of various backgrounds, ethnicities, educations, etc., to come together and contribute their own values and beliefs. It allows an individual like myself for example, to learn from others while also sharing my own knowledge with others.

In the course interview with Markiel Simpson (2021), Markiel describes himself as a Canadian activist and politician. As a person of colour, Markiel discusses just how important it is to continue to advocate and amplify voices within the community every single day. He says that this can be done simply by retweeting somebody’s Tweet or engaging with them in conversation to learn more and share your own knowledge. Markiel says that he uses Twitter, on a professional level, to engage with politicians, teachers, and other individuals to advocate for Canadian Black history to be included in the school’s curriculum. He uses hashtags like “strongertogether” and “togetherwerise” to bring everybody together, and to get his message across.

References:

Miller, J. [MILLER]. (2021, June 1). EDCI 338 – Markiel Simpson [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsoDHGaXNNs