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December 14, 2006
Social Software's Growth
More and more of your social interactions are moving online. David Teten and Scott Allen, authors of The Virtual Handshake uncover 10 major cultural implications of social software's growth in their lastest installment in the Networking Resource Center.
For instance:
" Basic computer skills really matter...and fortunately the next generation is much more technologically skilled than the current generation. It is harder and harder for blue-collar professionals, let alone white-collar professionals, to do their job without basic computer literacy. Think how often people of all socioeconomic backgrounds email one another, participate in web-based training, or apply for a job via an Internet portal. Just to get a job in the first place, you need to know how to type and how to learn new software programs reasonably rapidly. The good news: given that 33 percent of online teens share content (artwork, photos, stories and videos) on the Internet, the next generation will have an even higher comfort level with this technology than the current generation working in corporate America." Read more.
Posted by Lynne d Johnson at December 14, 2006 12:31 PM | Category: networking |
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I began homeschooling my three children 6 years ago because the public school wasn't teaching them the RIGHT stuff...technology and computer use. The student to computer ratio was something along the lines of 25:1. In our homeschool it's 1:1.
Tomorrowland will be populated by haves and have nots. Those who understand and can use technology will be the haves. Those who don't, the have nots.
I wonder if this undercurrent of "Social Software" is going to be a major factor for
giving rise to the so-called Web 3.0...
What else, if any, is coming along together with it to constitute the Web 3.0 Society?
Where will the computer tech meet with the human mind in the next-generation society?
A Japanese curious soul
in Chiba, Japan
/gtw-1
The true cultural impact of of social software's growth may be somewhat hidden by the fog of a society's attempts to control it and maintain the established business enviroments. These enviroments contain people that are comfortable with systems that are not prepared for the information and interaction age that is here! Cell telephones and their expanding capabilities are shifting our professional and personal lives, shrinking our world, and openning our eyes. Information has leaped as much or more than it did when we went from tool and rock to ink and paper.
Social Software is really needed in many countries like Russia. Many of my old school friends are living like 100 years ago ((