I've had a bit of a revelation recently - I know to the rest of the world, in terms of time spent doing online things, social networking is up on email but weirdly, 80% of DWP staff (of those surveyed, about 400) dont use any social networking sites. Which got me to thinking, are we all getting a bit carried away with this social media/social networking malarkey? Are people still really talking to one another? (probably not actually).
Then I had a technology exclusion experience of my own.
As a child I had a squint, my eyes facing in two different directions (how attractive and no I dont have a picture, I burnt them, lol). I have no binocular vision.
Cut to me looking for good films to see - a long time fan of Tim Burton and of animation, I was all excited by the prospect of seeing Coraline. Sadly, its 3D and I can't see 3D...at all (not even magic eye pictures, lol). Even the film that opened the Cannes Film Festival was a 3D animation
I now feel completely excluded, not through a lack of interest, but through a lack of ability.
How many are still in the internet wilderness suffering from that same lack of ability, being bamboozled by #links and confused by RSS - and how can we support them (and should we) to engage in this madness that is social media?
Answers on a tweet to @helennicol ;-)
1 comment:
I learned a long time ago that trying to introduce new technology to people who don't care about it abd are not interested, is an uphill struggle. It can be done, but needs a massive corporate push. The most effective knowledge-sharing approaches I know of are based on very simple tools such as email, web-pages or mobile phones; technologies people use already. If they won't share knowledge using the tools they already have, what's the cahnce of getting them to do it using a tool they don't want and can't understand?
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