http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/06/new-media-consortium-conference-session-5 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:02:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/06/new-media-consortium-conference-session-5#comment-426 Sarah Lohnes Sun, 15 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/06/new-media-consortium-conference-session-5#comment-426 very suggestive number (who knows how to measure such things, but still...) - "75% of the learning in today's workplaces is informal and social" - I would agree with this absolutely. what I love about email and about blogging is that these are tools that feel really informal and social, and allow stuff to move quickly from person to person to person. we do a lot of work with a vendor in Texas, Attenza, and while I find telephone conference calls with them kind of nerve-wracking and weirdly artificial, I benefit so much from emailing with them, and from the email-driven customer support service that they provide. I feel like Rick and Jack and Karl are my "buddies" even though I have never met any of them in person, and I have learned so many things from them that have helped me enormously at my job. very suggestive number (who knows how to measure such things, but still…) - “75% of the learning in today’s workplaces is informal and social” - I would agree with this absolutely. what I love about email and about blogging is that these are tools that feel really informal and social, and allow stuff to move quickly from person to person to person. we do a lot of work with a vendor in Texas, Attenza, and while I find telephone conference calls with them kind of nerve-wracking and weirdly artificial, I benefit so much from emailing with them, and from the email-driven customer support service that they provide. I feel like Rick and Jack and Karl are my “buddies” even though I have never met any of them in person, and I have learned so many things from them that have helped me enormously at my job.

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