Re: Professor Tim Noakes's name has been cleared

Johnsveitch — Sat, 22 Apr 2017 01:24:01 -0000

This was a well presented report. Cutting to the chase on this event isn't easy. THe background given by your reporter was excellent. The ADSA has mud on the face, and the HPCSA has shown itself to be incompetent. Congratulations, Dr Noakes and team.

Re: Amazing growth in social media understanding

Johnsveitch — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:11:23 -0000

The social web is a network of volunteers. Most people even after they have joined social networking groups fail to see the point of being there. They never get engaged enough to find people like themselves, they don't bother to read posts, they don't get to know who the other people are, and they NEVER post themselves.

To get any benefit out of social networking YOU have to do things yourself. Since this is a choice you make, you have to choose to do more work. Only after making that choice can you discover, people, topics, places where your engagement is a useful addition to your day.

So those who are very successful in using social media are about 5% of those who choose to participate in the first place. About 15% find some benefit but never get deeply involved. The other 80% are the long tail, "I joined but I never used it much".

I quote LinkedIn because my numbers there are fairly solid. LinkedIn is the premier business network on the Internet. More than 7000 New Zealanders are members. (LinkedIn told me 10,000 two years ago.) The median number of connections of the people that can be found is 5. BUT fewer than 3000 people are findable, the rest have 0, 1 or 2 connections and effectively absent.

The "information super-highway" is yet to arrive.

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