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Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War

Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 5 November 2008

 








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Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War
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Knowledge LetterAppears in the Gurteen Knowledge Letter issue: 101
Posted DateWednesday 5 November 2008 18:40 GMT
Posted ByDavid Gurteen
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I recently read an interesting and provocative article Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War from Venkatesh Rao that produced a number of reactions by other bloggers.

He makes some good points but I just don't agree that this is a generation war. I have run scores of knowledge cafes and knowledge sharing workshops around the planet these last few years and although I have met people of all ages: Boomers; Gen-Xers and Millennials - I have not seen attitudes and behaviors differentiated by chronological age.

As Mark Gould commented in his blog post Oh good grief… "Date of birth does not determine a generation. Where you fit in the generations will depend on a range of personal factors — personal responsibilities (are you a carer or a parent, or are you fancy-free), political focus (do you tend to respect authority, or do you seek your own gurus), and age (not when you were born, but how old are you)."

Personally, I think the post is nicely argued but it is a crude stereotype and is wrong but take a read and decide for yourself from your own experience.



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