Here goes…

Strangely, in my line of work, I’m rather cynical of certain technological advances and their social impact, but figure I’ve got to give this a go… Personally I’m not sure I will be able to sustain blogging. Is it just another fad, or will we all have moved on in a few year’s time? I’m also trying to get my head around facebook at the moment, the problem is that I, and most of my closest buddies, are not into using the web for anything other than shopping….which we embrace with all our hearts..

Instant messaging is good, I can see the value in that… and Carl gave me a fine example of where blogging would be really useful… Teachers blogging what they did in their class that day, so parents can find out what the children have been learning… I thought that was a cool idea… if anyone can give me any other “real” useful examples.. (not some “day in the life of MP” nonsense!) In my line of work I go out and talk to non-technical people and they need convincing that if they are going to change the way they work/communicate/live, it needs to be better than what they already do! i.e. tangible efficiencies -saves them time, saves their colleagues/customers time, easy to use… etc etc.. I know that the people who I engage with would see this as time consuming, and another thing they need to read…they’ve lived without it up until now.. so they can continue to live without it…