Social Media Home Schooling – PR Tactics Journal
December’s PR Tactics journal from the Public Relations Society of America includes my latest Digital Dialogue column. “Social media home schooling: Create your 2010 lesson plan” focuses on some basics that individuals and businesses interested in social networking can use to organize their profiles and help expand their Web proficiency.
There is a lot of noise on the Web to sift through, and likewise a lot of knowledgeable people to learn with. Just this morning I read a post from Todd Defren about how he’s scrubbing his Twitter follower list, not in an effort to abandon followers but rather to weed out spam that has accumulated and restore the list of those he follows so he can return to the level of Twitter conversations he originally benefited from.
Time management is essential. Identifying some favorite resources to visit regularly – blogs, podcasts, communities etc – while leaving your door open to additional discovery requires a bit of planning and maintenance that is worth a bit of effort, and sanity, in the long run. This is what the December piece seeks to offer: a few starting considerations for presenting yourself online and keeping up an appropriate learning curve, along with encouragement for others to add their ideas. The article cites just a few resource specifics within space constraints. Any favorites you would add heading into the New Year?
