Smooth Networking

7.1.2010 von joergkrause.

When looking at the behavior of digital natives I feel the power of an ever connected community. Store your thoughts and they get spread widely through your network. It makes us a bit more like parts of a swarm then before. Instead of having a close relation to only a few, we get a wider range of contacts. Some of them, and the chance is higher than ever to find more compatible ones, would be good enough to get closer to. At the end of the day this is directly related to the techniques we invent and develop day by day.

I think that this will have an impact on our labor world, too. Currently most employers recognize the usage of such connecting tools like messenger and partly email as an annoying time consumer. Time is eaten as in Langoliers (a Stephen King based TV episode). Though, communicating is essential for practical work. That leads me to the conclusion. Office and knowledge workers are supposed to communicate. It avoids mistakes. It clarify things that aren’t frankly open at all. It makes our work life stronger and smoother.

Usually people complain about not having enough time to do their work. If they would organize themselves better, use the network that exists around them, and delegate tasks as well as gather tasks that fit their personal possibilities better, they would save more time than the maintenance of their network cost.

Digital native do this by default. For digital immigrants it’s time to think about a shift. Shift to new tools and gadgets, but don’t see this as a tool or gadget but as a valuable part of your life.

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