09/28/2009

Making a social media pitch to your firm? First find friends...

I find this video very informative at this early stage in my Web 2.0 skill development. As a professor I am trying to teach my students the skills they will need to be successful in the world that they are going to enter. I recognize that that world is radically different from the world I entered as a working adult almost 20 years ago. While i enjoy teaching roughly the same information I was taught, I think it would be better if I changed both the content and the form of the conversation for my students.

This means that by learning Web 2.0 I am going back to school. But, for the school to serve its students well I think it will have to pay more attention to the youth. That means that I must be close to my own students, getting into their world and participating as an equal. But, that also means that my own mentors must listen to me when I share with them my intuitions about the future and how we might have to change our pedagogical practices to better meet it.

I have targeted several people in my building who I think can be advocates in the process of getting some of the Web 2.0 strategies adopted. This past week was devoted to learning alot about these strategies so that I will be a good salesman. But, I know that success in getting new practices adopted will be not be primarily due to the quality of my arguments but the stature and good will of my advocates and mentors. Wish me luck!

Sep 28, 2009 2:09:05 AM

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