Lunchmeet-Hybrid+PLN

A Model of the Hybrid Approach to Professional Networking: "Lunchmeet"
As students continue to gain the skills necessary to build their own personal management systems (PMS), they must also learn to evolve that network from the digital world into the real word, and vice versa. The mode through which this evolution occurs must be cloud-based, user friendly, and free. As stated above, these specifications are necessary to sustain the practice. A model for this type of evolution is: Lunchmeet. According to Vissa Visham's review on Mashable.com (2011), the mobile application syncs with the professional networking site LinkedIn to allow users to plan an offline meeting during their lunch hour or after work. Veena touts that the free application "helps people strengthen and expand their professional network by having face-to-face, meaningful conversations in their free time."

The creation of sites like "lunchmeet" will be necessity for the classroom of 2025. Within the post-secondary world, students will be required to utilize applications such as these in order to sustain their own continued education. Teachers must train students with the skills necessary to navigate the type of world that blurs the lines between digital and real-world acquaintances. Obvious lessons that must go into the classroom will be training students to consider those they are talking to, the amount of information they are willing to share, as well as the location they are meeting their knew acquaintances. Sustainability in this case, will land in the hands of developers as well as the ability to have mobile devices within the classroom.

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