Comments on: Technology Cheerleader http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/ Writings and ruminations about emerging technologies, Web 2.0, information architecture and libraries. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:19:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Grace http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-377 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 22:52:02 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-377 I think that people have to need to use the technology to do so, and they need the time to participate. Your comments point to Social Infomatics, but this only helps inform us. Different communites serve different aspects of our being...as Ginger noted look for the new friend. I think that people have to need to use the technology to do so, and they need the time to participate. Your comments point to Social Infomatics, but this only helps inform us. Different communites serve different aspects of our being…as Ginger noted look for the new friend.

]]> by: Library Views 圖書館觀點 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-374 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:40:11 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-374 <strong>Web 2.0 的服務對象</strong> 在看到 Dr. Wendy Schultz 於 OCLC NextSpace 電子報 所講的 &#8220;Library 4.0 將不會取代 Libraries 1.0 至 3.0&#8221; 這段話之後，讓我對目前 Library 2.0 或 web 2.0 的推廣有一個想法，那就是 Web 2.0 技術是用來... Web 2.0 的服務對象

在看到 Dr. Wendy Schultz 於 OCLC NextSpace 電子報 所講的 “Library 4.0 將不會取代 Libraries 1.0 至 3.0” 這段話之後，讓我對目前 Library 2.0 或 web 2.0 的推廣有一個想法，那就是 Web 2.0 技術是用來…

]]> by: DW http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-362 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 03:47:46 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-362 This is one aspect of the problem we are trying to solve at <a href="http://www.suprglu.com" rel="nofollow">SuprGlu</a>. You can get all your stuff together under one roof to share with anyone. Web 2.0 aware or not, they just simply follow one link and they can see what you're sharing/reading/writing. We presented this back in the Dec. NY Tech Meetup, and we hope it'll be a good first step for everyone to adopt the openness of the latest web services. This is one aspect of the problem we are trying to solve at SuprGlu. You can get all your stuff together under one roof to share with anyone. Web 2.0 aware or not, they just simply follow one link and they can see what you’re sharing/reading/writing. We presented this back in the Dec. NY Tech Meetup, and we hope it’ll be a good first step for everyone to adopt the openness of the latest web services.

]]> by: Kathy Kawasaki http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-357 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:55:12 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-357 School librarians are familiar with your problem. We always deal with one teacher at a time. It's very slow, but you can't deal with the whole staff/family at once. School librarians are familiar with your problem. We always deal with one teacher at a time. It’s very slow, but you can’t deal with the whole staff/family at once.

]]> by: ginger http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-356 Tue, 30 May 2006 10:51:11 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-356 look for new friend not the old one look for new friend not the old one

]]> by: Jane http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-352 Tue, 23 May 2006 10:33:51 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-352 Both comments have really hit the nail on the head. I'm involved in the developing of a UK eco site. We've been trying to get friends and family involved in populating it thinking they would find it easy.... but it's not as natural to them as it is to us - they don't use computers day in day out and other web 2.0 tools, so they are lost. It's been interesting to see how they are responding to it though. Both comments have really hit the nail on the head. I’m involved in the developing of a UK eco site. We’ve been trying to get friends and family involved in populating it thinking they would find it easy…. but it’s not as natural to them as it is to us - they don’t use computers day in day out and other web 2.0 tools, so they are lost. It’s been interesting to see how they are responding to it though.

]]> by: Sara http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-351 Thu, 18 May 2006 17:05:45 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-351 I agree with Greg and would add that the mainstream might simply be intimidated by the unknown. In the movie "What the bleep do we know?" there was a part about Native Americans not being able to see Columbus' ships on the horizon because they had no vocabulary or previous experience with which to even register such a phenomenon. As Josh notes in the 53,651 post - most people haven't had any contact with these Web 2.0 ideas. Here in the academic library where I work, we're still trying to pitch the internet to some of our professors; we've offered online course reserves for years but every semester without fail, many professors still bring us paper materials to put on reserves. Is this the technology bell curve? Will the good folks at the slow end hold back the rest of us? I agree with Greg and would add that the mainstream might simply be intimidated by the unknown. In the movie “What the bleep do we know?” there was a part about Native Americans not being able to see Columbus’ ships on the horizon because they had no vocabulary or previous experience with which to even register such a phenomenon. As Josh notes in the 53,651 post - most people haven’t had any contact with these Web 2.0 ideas. Here in the academic library where I work, we’re still trying to pitch the internet to some of our professors; we’ve offered online course reserves for years but every semester without fail, many professors still bring us paper materials to put on reserves. Is this the technology bell curve? Will the good folks at the slow end hold back the rest of us?

]]> by: Greg Linden http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-350 Thu, 18 May 2006 15:39:52 +0100 http://infotangle.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/technology-cheerleader/#comment-350 Could it be that your friends and relatives don't use these tools because the tools aren't built to appeal to people like them? Many of these tools seem to require a fair amount of work and effort. Geeky early adopters are willing to tolerate that pain, but I'm not sure the mainstream is. There has to be immediately, obvious, and overwhelming benefit for mainstream users to bother with these tools. Josh Kopelman has a nice post on this point recently called "53,651". http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/05/53651.html Could it be that your friends and relatives don’t use these tools because the tools aren’t built to appeal to people like them?

Many of these tools seem to require a fair amount of work and effort. Geeky early adopters are willing to tolerate that pain, but I’m not sure the mainstream is. There has to be immediately, obvious, and overwhelming benefit for mainstream users to bother with these tools.

Josh Kopelman has a nice post on this point recently called “53,651″.

http://redeye.firstround.com/2006/05/53651.html

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