I find it rather fascinating how blogging is so main stream that we do not talk about it anymore. The local newspaper’s, magazines, and some more advanced businesses have found another voice and a way to get it out there. In classes I have students who last year looked at me as if I was from outer space when blogging was mentioned and this year some of them are bloggers.
When I first started teaching application software in 2000 (after many years of consulting) I would have classes where only 1 or at the most 2 would even have an email address, today most people in our classes have at least two and some have three. What makes that more interesting is that email to some degree is being supplanted by SMS or text messaging and at a high rate of speed. Kids do more text messaging than email and they have been our leaders in a great deal of this technology. What is it, “out of the mouth of ….”.
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Text messaging coupled with the use of Twitter is considered micro blogging – maximum length of post is 140 characters. In discussing Twitter with a student this week and explaining how a business could put it to use (and benefit from it) her comment was “Please do not tell my boss”. Technology is coming at us fast and if you duck you are in trouble.
One of the great things that I do (in my opinion) is to turn someone’s lights on to these great tools. I guess I have a passion for learning and for spreading the word.
Oh yes, I have 37 email addresses, but who is counting. I have a great Outlook so it’s a sunny day in the cloud.
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