Chapter 4: Heartware: Your Why for Being Online
Summary of Exercises
This chapter 4 exercise has six parts:
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What’s Your Why for Leading Online?Why are you online? What do you hope to accomplish? With whom do you want to connect? Will it matter if you have a presence on Instagram—or further, what difference do you hope to make because you are on Instagram? These deeper questions illuminate the philosophy behind digital leadership. How can you have a stronger impact if you align your values and goals with your social media presence?
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Don’t Add More Platforms—Add More PurposeCan you be honest with yourself in where you are with social media? What do you need to better understand and learn to use these tools?
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Extend Invitation OpportunitiesThink about how you have made connections to others online.
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Pausing for PersonalizationMake sense of humanizing and personalizing online, what is authenticity to you? What have you seen done?
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Platform ReflectionReflect back to think through what platforms you are on, what you post, when you post, and for whom.
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Warm-Up to Leadership TheoriesWarm-up for the work we’ll do in Chapter 5.
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Next Steps
Now head to our book community, the Digital Leadership Network found at http://bit.ly/DigitalLeadershipNetwork, and find the chapter 4 topic, where you can share a few of your reflections, discoveries and actions on any of these exercises.
The Digital Leadership Network is a community of learners reading the book Digital Leadership in Higher Education.
Chapter Resources
This rewind of my path of technology adoption outlines major shifts in tech tools over the last 40-plus years. Use my timeline as a jumping-off point to reflect on your own relationship with technology.
