Ways to Organize and Find Content For Your Professional Network

Paper.li is one of the many tools that can find content and build your professional network. Paper.li is a website that allows for you to put in topics that you are interested in or that pertain to your field of work and it will generate articles that revolve around those topics. These articles will show up in a newspaper format and will allow you to see all the articles generated for you all at once. In, Follow smart people 5 ways with paper.li, it also expresses that you can use paper.li to share articles with people who don't have Twitter. This allows you to build your professional network outside the realm of Twitter. My paper.li account is called, What's Happening in Elementary Ed, and when you get to my profile it shows articles that pertain to teaching and elementary education. This is because when I signed up for an account, those were the topics that I chose for my articles. I will definitely continue to use this tool because it will allow for me to find content that relates to the field of education and allows me to share this content with people outside of Twitter. 

Another useful resource is Flipboard. Flipboard is an app where just like paper.li, you choose topics that pertain to your career field or interests, and then it generates articles for you that relate to the topics you chose. But unlike paper.li, the articles show up one at a time and the article doesn't interest you, you swipe up and it brings you to the next article. Flipboard also expanded its capabilities by adding a storyboard feature. In the article, Flipboard just became even more of a must-have app for new junkies, it explains that there is a feature that allows you to create a board of all different articles that pertain to your topics that you pick. This storyboard can be a great way to organize your articles and a great source to share on your social media to better your professional network. I have found Flipboard to be the most helpful resource that has helped me to find solid content about teaching and elementary education to post to my social media accounts. Using Flipboard has allowed me to gain knowledge and perspective on the education system based on the articles I have found and posted so far. I see no plans of not using this app any time soon. 

Apps like Flipboard and Paper.li are a great way to find content for your Twitter. But when finding all this content its important to stay organized. Microsoft OneNote is a great resource that can help with that. OneNote acts as your own online notebook and offers certain features to keep yourself organized. But the main reason I want to talk about one note is because of the learning tools that it offers. Microsoft new OneNote add-on makes reading easier for dyslexic students, explains that OneNote will read the text to you and break words up into syllables and highlight elements of syntax. This is a great resource that I will be using when I become a teacher because not only does it offer a great way to become organize, it also offers an excellent feature to aid children in their learning that can help guide them to success.

In the book Light, Bright, and Polite for Professionals, John Ochs gives advice as to how to portray yourself on social media and how it can influence your reputation and in return your chances of getting a job. In chapter one, Ochs stresses how everyone on social media has what's known as a digital footprint which can be found by anyone on the internet. Ochs explains your digital footprint includes every social media account you created, every post you commented on, online discussions you were apart of, and post from other people with similar names. He goes on to expose the false accusations and about social media. One myth he debunks is "My boss/ potential boss and I aren't friends on Facebook, so she has no access to what I post (and no right to see it)". He unravels this myth by explaining many social media apps like Facebook change their privacy regulations quite often, so it's hard to know for sure if your account and posts are really private or not. And if your posts are private, there is a good possibility that your co workers will show your boss. Ochs is able to debunk this myth by proving the fact that nothing you really post on social media is private and can be found by anyone who wants to see it, even your boss who doesn't follow you. Ochs gives specific scenarios, just like this one, throughout the chapter to get his point across that social media can hurt you professional network if not used in the correct way. I will take all of his advice into consideration as I enter the Education field. It is especially important I follow this advice because I am considered a role model to my future students and so therefore the school district that I end up working for is going to do some extended research on me and my background. 

Overall, Paper.li and Flipboard are great resources to help you find content that can help build your professional network. Although these apps do offer some features to keep you organized, OneNote is a reliable tool that offers many organization capabilities. I plan to use these tools throughout my journey of becoming a teacher and continue to use them after I become one.