[Hidden-tech] Thanks to all those great Web designers - curious about the new generation/work expectations

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While we're on a roll, I thought the 1st generation social networking
systems, like BIX, did most everything useful that's being done now, and
changes since then have been evolutionary, with much of the difference in
fluff and with technology taking a smaller role in change than positioning.

BIX was more or less like the HT list, except categorized, so you could find
people of similar, mostly technical, interests in a variety of subjects.
BIX, like Compuserve and AOL, began pre-internet, when 1200 baud modems and
150K floppy drives were hot technology.  I suspect few at that time would
believe a messaging system limited to SMS text length would be considered
"Web 2.0 social networking".  And many, I think, would have been surprised
to find that it would take nearly 20 years for networked video to begin to
make serious penetration.

Charlie
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lynn Nichols [mailto:lynn at starstruckdesign.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 11:18 AM
To: nestor at fuzzy-math.com
Cc: joseph at steig.com; hidden-discuss
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Thanks to all those great Web designers - curious
about the new generation/work expectations

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Hey Nestor - I'm a 54 year old web designer (hence a baby boomer) who is 
at the top of my game with the web and social networking (you can find 
me on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other social sites and I 
follow lots of others  through RSS feeds with iGoogle). And my business, 
which I started in 1999, is busier than it has ever been. So please 
don't put us boomers in the same box -- not all of us are ignorant of 
the ways of younger folks (in fact, some of us are heavy into 
cross-generational collaboration). I stay current with technology and 
cultural changes to keep my business moving forward and keep me from 
becoming a "dinosaur" at the top... ;)

Lynn

-- 
Lynn A. Nichols, Starstruck Design
lynn at starstruckdesign.com
http://www.starstruckdesign.com



nestor at fuzzy-math.com wrote:
> I think the key is that the boomers got a late start:  their parents 
> were a generation that held on to leadership roles long past 'normal' 
> retirement age, and so they feel they have to do the same.  I really 
> don't think that our generation will stand for that behavior, especially 
> in a more progressive economy where lean and mean is fastly replacing 
> that good old bloated hierarchy.  There just won't be room for the 
> dinosaurs at the top when it's the folks with the short attention spans 
> and social networking abilities that will keep things moving. 




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