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Use Social Media Tools to
Discover and Target Future Goals
Social media also improves our success in understanding,communicate and share information about educational and career plans.
Use Social Media to Bridge the Generation Gap: A Word to Parents and Professionals
Awareness of the generations is necessary to engage and connect with other generation. Knowing the differences makes communication easier.
As an example, Millennials and Generation Z have unique characteristics. They are -
- Technologically sophisticated: Digital natives, Native speakers, Nets, Internet generation, iGeneration and Nintendo digital generation
- Optimistic: Generation Y and Sunshine generation, an inclusive and hopeful generation
- Generation C: Connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented, always clicking
Types of Social Media
Expertise with social media tools is important. Media technologypromotes social networking, career exploration, and future educational planning.
According to Michael Wu, Ph.D., two major types of media tools:
- Social Networks
- Online Communities
Popular social media tools, mobile and web technologies, include Facebook, Linkedin, and Twitter.
Media Technology helps us -
- Provide 24/7 access to resources, e.g. the US News and World Report (2012) discussed how High School Students Increasingly Use Social Media for College Search.
- Provide and receive immediate feedback
- Engage and connect with colleges, employers, companies, coaches, mentors, and other students
- Build networks
- Collaborate with others with shared interests
- Make your future plans
Hollandcodes.com has a variety of social media tools -
- Resource One: Facebook
- Resource Two: Twitter
- Resource Three: LinkedIn
For a complete list of our social media tools, see our post .
Twitter is an information network, an online social networking service, and a microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional business-oriented social networking service with over 175 million members and growing rapidly.
There are different reasons to use LinkedIn -
- Networking - Connect with professionals
- Recruitment
- People, company, and industry research
- Job Email Alerts
- Discussion groups
- Branding
- Job Search
- Interview preparation
- College or field of study research - LinkedIn for Education
Facebook has 70,000 users, 3 million daily page views and 90 million monthly page views.
Hollandcodes.com uses Facebook to display information about a variety of career development and social media topics.
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