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Re: Constructive Conversation - Part III
I’m glad to see this discussion, and hope my observations are helpful. I’ll try to keep this short ;>) What I’m seeing is a whole lot of learning going on. I’m teaching a class on blogging, and most of my students are taking an active part in what’s happening online for the first time. They have a variety of reasons for wanting to learn about blogs, but the thing they have in common is their excitement over being able to participate in something beyond themselves. Because I live in a small town, I also get some contact with people from the local governments, who are also interested in using the Internet – not to promote themselves or their projects, necessarily, but to find out what their constituency wants. It makes their job a whole lot easier if they know what people are likely to want before they start working on, say, a bond issue for something, only to find out down the road that everybody really wanted something else. The Internet gives everybody a small town where they can easily access the marketplace, and go straight to the horse’s mouth for the latest. There are still some people who wouldn’t have a computer in their house, but mostly it seems that people are figuring out they don’t need to be anybody special in order to be a part of what may have been (to them)an unapproachable process in the past. There are responses to this message:
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