A careful balance
How much time do we spend learning how to become more efficient, learning new ways to do things, finding new resources vs. actually doing things? That is a careful balance. One for which I don't think there is a clear answer.
As an example, we learn how to use email. We have it at work. Then we create other personal accounts or get them through a variety of ways. Email is so much faster and more conversational than traditional snail mail and offers the advantage of asynchronous communication such as telephone but it has become a beast to be wrestled with in terms of volume.
My interest is not only learning new technologies and ways to do things but in learning ways to help give me better tools or more time to accomplish what I need to do in the run of a day. As I see it, content is not the issue. There is so much available on the internet today that anyone can secure content usually for free. How to do it efficiently and effectively is the careful balance I'm looking for. Hopefully this course will help shed some light on this.
internet content
Kent, well put, it really is about the volumes of free information available on the Internet and how to better access and manage it (Delicious). Dave called it cheating, not in a negative sense but cheating the inefficient and expensive information gathering processes of by-gone days. The new generations are masters of this we need to be as current as possible, know how to use it and communicate it while maintaining that careful balance you describe. It should be interesting to see if an answer can become more clear over the next two weeks.
I agree
Hi Kent,
I do agree, I would like to learn about new tools but also would like to become more advanced with the ones I use daily because I may use alot but with a bit of training or awareness could become much more efficient and this would help alot at work.
Leslie