<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">right on.<br><div><br></div><div>amen.</div><div><br></div><div>ayibobo. (haitian-creole)</div><div><br></div><div>chris, you've just perfectly articulated the ideas bouncing around in my head since i've been reading posts on social networking the last couple of days.</div><div><br></div><div>you are so articulate!</div><div><br></div><div>thank you. </div><div><br></div><div>with gratitude to you and others for sharing reflections,</div><div><br></div><div>john</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>chris, god, you're so good with <br><div><div>On Mar 31, 2009, at 2:15 AM, Chris Corrigan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I love the social tools because they allow me to connect with and get to know people in far flung areas who are closer to me in thought and spirit than those who are nearby. For me, twitter, facebook, skype and blogging are a means to an end, and that end os sharing open face to face conversations with folks that are in disperate places, but with whom I learn a lot. <br> <br>And something to think about intergenerationally is that there are teenagers now who have lived their entire lives in a world with blogging, skype, and facebook. Think about that for a minute. These people don't consider these technologies to be old at all. They consider them the default setting. <br> <br>In a time when intergenerational conversation is becoming more important (how do we talk to the people with whom we have saddled with a trillion dollar debt, to explain to them to follies of our excess?) knowing a little about how these technologies enable self-organizing behaviour among digital natives is very important. And learning to use them I think is as important as employing other powerful social technologies like, say, Open Space.<br> <br>So I don't begrudge the unwillingness to particiapte in the collective monkey mind (thanks Karen!) or the pining for real contact, but I do encourage people to learn about and play with these tools, just like we have with OST and see what happens...<br> <br>Chris<br><br>PS... micheal...dynamite cafe design!<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>CHRIS CORRIGAN<br>Facilitation - Training - Process Design<br>Open Space Technology<br><br>Weblog: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot">http://www.chriscorrigan.com/parkinglot</a><br> Site: <a href="http://www.chriscorrigan.com">http://www.chriscorrigan.com</a><br><br>Principal, Harvest Moon Consultants, Ltd.<br><br> * * ========================================================== OSLIST@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of oslist@listserv.boisestate.edu: <a href="http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html">http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html</a> To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: <a href="http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist">http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist</a></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>*
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