I’m browsing through my blogroll and Dave Pollard has once again written a post that relates to our discussions. You may want to take a peek at Communication Technologies — A Decision Tree for Users.
I also draw your attention to the decision tree at the beginning of Dave’s post, not its contents so much as the concept. Perhaps this presents us with a model for organizing discussions or, even, the Symposiums.
The other thought about the decision tree is that if there was a way we could assign frequency and importance of communications to the various links and nodes in the tree, we might develop additional insight into the manner of communications. Maybe Pollard’s idea represents a useful diagnostic for understanding communications within a community.
This morning’s browse through The Huffington Post brought me to The New Generation Gap: Required Reading by Anastasia Goodstein
New rules indeed! Goodstein seems supportive of my comment of yesterday.
“I very much buy into the notion that new rules for communication are not only required, but need to be accommodated. The younger generation never asked the older generation if SMS was within the rules.”
This then causes me to wonder whether someone from the generation Goodstein writes about ought to address the symposium.
We’re on it. And have been all along. We’re planning to include students in this year’s conversation.