Sneh Duggal
Making this map was a good excuse to actually think about how I use each platform.
LinkedIn and Brightspace both landed institutional-visitor. I use both because school or the career stuff requires it, but I’m not really building a presence on either one so I check in, do what I need, and leave. GitHub is the one platform where I’m actually institutional-resident. It’s not just a place I visit for a task, it’s the current record of what I’ve built, and other people can look through it the same way I look through other students’ or researchers’ repos. That’s the closest thing I have to an active professional network right now.
On the personal side, YouTube and Chess.com are visitor platforms for me; I use them constantly, but almost entirely to consume- ML tutorials, chess puzzles, whatever- without any presence of my own there. Instagram and my poker group chat on Discord are where I’m actually a resident, that’s where people know me, where I’m participating.
That actually makes me a little more aware of the LinkedIn gap. It’s the one platform meant to build a professional network, and I’m currently just visiting it, not participating in it. If I want it to actually function as part of my PLN instead of just an online resume, I’d need to start acting more like a resident there, engaging with posts, following people in ML and AI, and the other influencers in this space not just keeping a profile up to date; this can eventually help me land something in the future.
My question for the group: for the platform you use the least intentionally, is that because it doesn’t fit how you like to build a network, or just because you haven’t gotten around to using it that way yet? I’m not sure which one it is for me with LinkedIn.