Social Media Etiquette

Class Look Back

In this class, I have learned the benefits of building and utilizing a personal learning network in order to help further my career if I need help or can provide help to another person. This class has provided me with valuable information in utilizing social media as well as other web tools to help me in my future career as a manager. I have also learned how to tell a good website from the bad ones, so in the future, if I am tasked with managing the design of a website I will know specifically what needs to be added to ensure that the website would be successful. Some tools that I learned about in this class through the smackdowns were: Instagram for businesses, Wordpress, different functions on Gmail, and a bunch of calendar apps that could be useful in my future career for keeping track of important deadlines and meetings about important projects. I learned to utilize the new functions that I learned about Gmail so I can easily sort my emails, so when I need to find something I can do it with ease. I enjoyed the class the way it was structured and all of the assignments were great is teaching the content of the class because instead of just reading about the content we also got chances to apply them throughout the course and smackdowns.

Good V.S. Bad Websites Smackdown

The websites that I chose to showcase in my smackdown exemplify good and bad websites. This is due to the fact that they may or may not meet the following criteria which makes a website good or not. In order for a website to be good, some of the criteria that it must possess are: moderation, easy to use, phenomenal content, and striking colors. In my Smackdown Play Big Zone exemplified that criteria making it superior to its competition iPlay America. Play Big Zone's website is not overly cluttered with information, pictures, videos, or ads unlike iPlay America. It is a nice clean cut website that allows users to find the information they need. Since their website is not cluttered it aids in the ease of use because they have a simple navigation bar that clearly defines what information you will find on those pages. Additionally, it does not have navigation tabs that have multiple choices making it more difficult to navigate and find information, which is something that iPlay America has making their website more difficult to navigate. Furthermore, Play Big Zone's website has nice bright and vibrant colors that captures the user's attention while iPlay America's website is dark with hints of red popping in here and there throughout the website. Play Big Zone has almost been open for a year and their website is superior to iPlay America's who has been around longer and is the more established business.

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Social Media Tools

LinkedIn:
LinkedIn is a powerful networking tool which is an invaluable resource that can be used to aid a person in finding and getting a job. This caught my eye because a site like this allows people who are looking for jobs or just looking to get their name and business out there to easily connect with people from different businesses in order to help them in the future. I chose this because as a future manager I feel that this site would allow me to reach out and meet people from different businesses around the world in order to help further my career as well as aid me in finding the right candidates to hire. I would use LinkedIn, especially for the hiring process because it gives me the ability to see where the candidate has worked before as well as some other personal information about them. Additionally, when I start my career LinkedIn would serve to allow me to get my name out there and meet new people who could potentially hire me as a manager.

Grab In Box:

Grab In Box is a tool that allows you to post on multiple platforms from one site saving you time from having you create the same post multiple times for each social media site. This caught my eye because if I manage a marketing team in this day and age social media is a powerful tool in marketing, so with this tool it would easily allow my team and I to make one post to be published on all social media sites. I chose this site because it allows for time to be saved when marketing products. This site cuts out the unnecessary steps of recreating the same posts for different social media sites in order to advertise the same product. I would use Grab In Box because it would be an invaluable web tool to have since it effectively streamlines the ability to make posts for social media across multiple platforms quickly.

Facebook Business Manager:
Facebook Business Manager is a great tool that allows for the management of your ads, pages, apps, and the people who work on them all from one place. This caught my eye because a site like this allows for simplicity in managing multiple aspects of a business account from one place. I chose this because as a future manager this would allow me to easily manage the business's Facebook page as well as all of the active ads that are running on the page. I would use this because it allows me to manage all aspects of the companies advertising as well as its presence on Facebook.

Storyboards

The first 3 are from storyboard that, the 4th one is from Pixton, and the last one is from PicLit.

 This is when I went to pick up the first car I bought

I love taking cruises 

 This is me bored out of my mind social distancing

 This is when I was 5 and visited my Uncles farm for the first time

This is a quote I like from Ferris Bullers Day Off and is one that I try to live by.

Web Tool Smack down

For my web tool, I chose Skype because it is a great app that allows for easy and simple communication with other people. Skype has multiple different ways to communicate with people from anywhere around the world at any time. Most of these features are free, but there is one service that they offer that is a monthly subscription. You can create meetings with as many people as you want in just 3 simple steps. All you have to do is click the start meeting button, click share invite, and select the people you want in the video call and you are done. Skype makes it as simple and easy as possible when it comes to communicating with others. Furthermore, you can do the chat feature you can have a group chat or just message individual people where you can go over things that need to be done or just to communicate through in a less formal structure like email. The last feature that they offer is the monthly subscription to obtain a phone number through skype where they can receive and make called to any cell phone or landline anywhere in the world.

All of these features will be extremely useful in my career as a manager because as a manager you must be able to communicate clearly and quickly in order to complete the task at hand. The meeting video chat is useful since it allows you to conference with people who may work in different buildings around the world. A reason for doing something like this would be if you are working on a project together and you need to communicate your research and other findings to one another in order to complete the project. The same goes for the chat feature whether it is a group chat or and individual chat it allows the managers to quickly communicate with the various members of their team and share information that is relevant to the project. Communication is key in management and the quicker and easier one is able to communicate the better the business will be since they will be able to get more done. Lastly, the paid subscription is extremely useful because if I have to travel a lot for my future career if I have to visit other teams in offices around the world them obtaining a phone number through skype to make and receive calls from anyone is great. If you were to purchase an international phone plan from your provider it would be extremely expensive, but skype offers it for a low monthly rate. This would allow me to stay in touch with my home team while I travel to these other teams to ensure everything is being done correctly to complete the project.

The Connected Educator Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter 4 of Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall's The Connecter Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age discusses the importance of working together, forming trusts and transparency with one another in order to foster a better relationship while working together to reach the overall goal. There are many aspects that they touch on in order to establish the deep relationship that they talk about. Trust and transparency were some of the big ones that they discussed. Obviously, when working with another person on a project you have to trust them otherwise problems between each person could arise since you do not trust them. Transparency goes hand in hand with trust because if you do not trust the person you are working with then you will not be transparent with them when it comes to relaying information regarding the project to them. Another factor that they cover is storming. Storming is when people begin to disagree and get frustrated with the time it takes to learn something new. "...educators are not told that this is a normal part of the connected learning community growth process, they give up prematurely, assuming this is one more professional development strategy that does not work" (Nusbaum-Beach and Hall 67). These are some of the most crucial aspects that are part of building a collaborative culture.

The use of trust and transparency along with other aspects that Nussbaum-Beach and Hall describe would benefit me in my future career as a manager because as a manager I need to be able to trust the people that are a part of my team. If we are working on a project I need to know that I can count on them to get the work done on their own and I do not have to be that guy that has to micro-manage people. Transparency is the same thing, I need to be transparent with my team when issues arise and they also have to be transparent with me if they have any concerns or issues in order to ensure that everyone on the team can foster the deep relationship that Nussbaum-Beach and Hall describe. This deep relationship will benefit the team and will be the reason that everyone will work well together and no one would have to micro-manage or have issues with another person on the team.


"Building a Collaborative Culture." The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age, by Seryl Nussbaum-Beach and Lani Ritter Hall, Solution Tree Press, 2012, pp. 57-71.