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My past experience with social media started off
interesting. I had a Facebook page and connected with friends from high school,
former colleagues, relatives that I had not seen in years and felt in the loop
with current friends and co-workers. As time went on, I found the benefits of the site were posting a one-time
announcement or invitation, one click and the word was out.
Great right! Well the down side was I could not control the
crazy things that people would post (arguments and unhealthy competition). I found
myself wanting to quickly get out of the loop and I did, I haven’t been back on
Facebook for four years now.
As for social media, in terms of advocating, blogging would be the way to go . When I first
started my blogging in the graduate program, I thought this would be a fine way
of sharing information with parents … you know having resources, articles and
stories to share. Yet through a parent meeting, I found out they do not want
this…. to sign on to one more thing is not worth their while, wow!
Back to the drawing board……..
So now I’m back at Facebook…. Although I have not used it in
four years I could create an educational site, I could not use my child care
centers name but if parents are on the Facebook media site they can link in without any
problems. Oh, just typing “link in” made
me think of the site linkedin site …. It’s
not really advocating (more of networking) but I assume I could be an advocate
on the site,
Meagan, as my colleague…. Can you provide some thoughts….. Help!
Val I used to use Facebook faithfully during my college years no I really limit my post but use it more as a resource to invitations, videos, and family or sorority connections. My company has a Facebook page for marketing, they post videos on our learning activities and events in the center. Something I recently discovered is an app called Brightwheel. You or your teacher can use it to write notes to families that they all can see or private messages as well. Linked In is a great professional networking site. But I do agree with you Facebook is great in some since but there will be some negativity. Social media can be a powerful advocacy tool.
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