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Post early, post often
Among the average worker in Ed-Tech, I’ve been told I post comparatively frequently on social media platforms.
I don’t have thousands of followers on any social media account, but quality is usually more important than quantity. This post is in response to a meeting I recently attended where two people on the call said something like: “I don’t know you, but I know your name because I see you all the time on LinkedIn and Twitter… thank you for posting things to promote interoperability.” To be fair I have less than 4K twitter users and my LinkedIn posts rarely receive more than 5 ‘likes’ but I’ll take it!
While I started both twitter and LinkedIn as a math teacher — and on twitter there was/is a quite active community united through hashtags like #iteachmath and #mtbos — it’s in the past few years that social media has become more important as a professional tool. The edtech industry is much smaller and if I’m honest, the amount of people who really care about interoperability standards for competencies is probably around 5,000 globally, even if the topic will impact anyone learning anything anywhere. Yet the more I post to a general audience perhaps I can inspire more questions about it and spark a conversation. That’s why I started a podcast about interoperability…
