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This is just a draft placeholder while the overall document is developed. | This is just a draft placeholder while the overall document is developed. | ||
Please do not edit, send comments to [[User:DavidM| DavidM]] for now. | Please do not edit, send comments to [[User:DavidM| DavidM]] for now. | ||
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People have very good reasons to be hesitant about change. Technological change – seeing if its tested | People have very good reasons to be hesitant about change. Technological change – seeing if its tested | ||
the background reasons for technology to be developed and used. | |||
{{#ask: [[Category:Play Person]] | {{#ask: [[Category:Play Person]] | ||
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# describe key goal (including baselines and measurements), critical budget and timing issues | # describe key goal (including baselines and measurements), critical budget and timing issues | ||
#define and refine goal(s) | # define and refine goal(s) | ||
# research solutions and select working set | # research solutions and select working set | ||
# refine goals based on working set | # refine goals based on working set | ||
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# measure effectiveness | # measure effectiveness | ||
# summarize effects | # summarize effects | ||
# iterate | |||
avoid custom software vs accessibility | avoid custom software vs accessibility | ||
what do the non profit tech workers want? - problems | what do the non profit tech workers want? - problems | ||
==Access== | ==Access== | ||
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=Technology as a solution= | =Technology as a solution= | ||
We think of the technology we use today as new, but in reality most of it has been around, in different forms, for a long time. Hypertext, for example – a way to create links between documents – | We think of the technology we use today as new, but in reality most of it has been around, in different forms, for a long time. [[wp:Hypertext]], for example – a way to create links between documents – was visualized in a microfiche based system in the 1940s (the [[wp:Memex]]). There are large cycles of introduction, reaction, revision. The entire Internet as a mass novelty, in the 1990s, resulted in the [[wp:Dot-com bubble Dot-com bubble]] shortly thereafter, as overexcited expectations were deflated. | ||
The Internet does have to be considered one of the greatest, and most unexpected innovations of our lifetime. No company would have created a network where anyone can publish and access information with equal ease and virtually no cost, for nearly anyone, around the world (nor could they, due to the cooperation involved). Companies were left scrambling to react to this disruptive development. | |||
The internet is the product of generations of scientists, strategists, and implementers, now available for anyone to use, at the price of stepping into a limelight, encrypted or not. Twitter, the current craze, merely represents the latest version of the [[wp:Echo chamber]], a metaphorical space where “information, ideas or beliefs are amplified or reinforced by transmission ” - but this time, with more identity. | |||
The internet went through several phases of “killer applications,” as the entire world happened across its capabilities. Majorly are the ease and (no) cost sending of email and the richness of the World Wide Web, which was originally envisioned as an intimately linked, eminently re-usable “read-write” research web, where one web site's information can be linked with another, and information shared easily. Unfortunately, commercial and individual enthusiasm (and the unreadiness of the background technology) has resulted in many messes – email can be unusable due to “spam,” and most web sites today could be easier to use as a paper brochure, and they certainly don't encourage information re-use. | |||
This is another reason it is important to highlight the background reasons for technology to be developed and used. | |||
Wikis promote one of the original ideas of the Web, easy participation, and newer developments promote easier exchange of information – for example, using another organization's data in your Web site using systems such as Freebase and Semantic Mediawiki. | Wikis promote one of the original ideas of the Web, easy participation, and newer developments promote easier exchange of information – for example, using another organization's data in your Web site using systems such as Freebase and Semantic Mediawiki. | ||
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go past using tech as typewriter | go past using tech as typewriter | ||
curb cut principle | curb cut | ||
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don't expect more than what is offered | don't expect more than what is offered | ||
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technology as a threat | technology as a threat | ||
=Connecting and getting advice= | =Connecting and getting advice= | ||