Comments on: What They Learned in College http://andrewmcafee.org/2006/10/what_they_learned_in_college/ The Business Impact of IT Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:08:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: john caddell http://andrewmcafee.org/2006/10/what_they_learned_in_college/comment-page-1/#comment-2763 john caddell Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:37:36 +0000 #comment-2763 At the last company I worked for, a not-so-big company where I was a member of senior management, I tried to encourage us to experiment with wikis as a way to collaborate across locations and with other companies. Only the techiest folks in the company got interested, and used them for some very basic functions. The IT group was not very supportive--probably because it lessened their control of things. Any job applicant who had any knowledge of web 2.0 technologies would have looked at us as if we were Cro-Magnon. And we were an IT company!! At the last company I worked for, a not-so-big company where I was a member of senior management, I tried to encourage us to experiment with wikis as a way to collaborate across locations and with other companies. Only the techiest folks in the company got interested, and used them for some very basic functions. The IT group was not very supportive–probably because it lessened their control of things.

Any job applicant who had any knowledge of web 2.0 technologies would have looked at us as if we were Cro-Magnon. And we were an IT company!!

]]> By: Susan Scrupski http://andrewmcafee.org/2006/10/what_they_learned_in_college/comment-page-1/#comment-2762 Susan Scrupski Fri, 27 Oct 2006 00:06:45 +0000 #comment-2762 Professor McAfee... I believe you're inciting a revolution! :coolsmile: Your post is reinforcing my comments on the "youth culture" and their unwillingness to accept the status quo. Rock on. Susan Professor McAfee… I believe you’re inciting a revolution! :coolsmile:

Your post is reinforcing my comments on the “youth culture” and their unwillingness to accept the status quo.

Rock on.

Susan

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