February 7, 2009
By chris
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The Techno-Generational Divide
NPR.org has an article talking about the technology divide between younger managers and older employees within companies. The managers find they really need to encourage the older generation to get up to speed with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and mobile apps like text messaging. Their reasoning? It increases productivity. But there’s not only a tech divide, but a general gap in mindset when it comes to social networking. The older generation comes from an era where face-to-face or phone networking was the order of the day. Today’s generation does it via text, Web or — when necessary — phone.
There is merit obviously to both mindsets — current technology is excellent for networking and keeping in touch; and face-to-face communication is necessary for building an understanding of one another — a “feel” for one another — that the Web or phone could never do.
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