Well, the relatively non-techie made it through the weekend! My mind is swimming and I'm wondering how I am going to find the time to read all the blogs I just subscribed to (and, I'm sort of wondering how life went on before subscribing . . .). I find myself left with many of the same questions I was noodling around with before we started class. Like, how companies are really going to adapt and adopt technological and real collaborative strategies? How do we recruit and retain net gen employees in a baby boomer organization? I'm just going to have to continue to think on those. The opportunity to discuss the book with my peers was great as it really opened my mind to some different ways of processing the information.
In terms of practical application, boy, where do you start? I think the poll everywhere site will allow me to implement some new techniques into a rather stale audience experience. I had no idea that there were so many useful aspects of google. I've mainly utilized the site as a way to find a good restaurant or searching for websites that sell long pants for tall people. Setting up our own blogs was a great experience and I can see that this will be a wonderful way to learn from everyone else in the class as we process through. And, in case you forget how to get back on to add a new post, it's http://www.blogger.com/!
It really is overwhelming, but you ask some very good questions about what the changes mean for companies that are not at all in the Net Gen mindset. I wonder if the collaborative environment Wikinomics talks about is really possible for all models of business, but I think that aspects of it really could be.
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