http://www.newsome.org/2005/08/project-flickr-update/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2005/08/project-flickr-update/comment-page-1/#comment-5210 RichardQuerin Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:10:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2267#comment-5210 Very interesting read about dragging the rest of the family into the internet/photo sharing space. I have taken a similar but less upfront method by creating a site separate from my more techie one that is directly aimed at my family. I haven't emailed anything directly (other than the first notice with the blog address) but most of them do seem to keep up with what I've posted on the blog. My rationale is to then introduce things like Flickr, Google Maps, Google Earth, rss aggregation, podcasting etc.. and other concepts in a more gentle way to maybe get them knowledgeable. I'd like to do it without scaring them :). BTW, it's not just an age or education thing either. I work with a dozen guys of which most are engineering graduates and in their late-twenties and for the most part they don't have a clue about rss, blogs, podcasting, flickr or any of that stuff. You should have seen the look on their faces when I demonstrated Google Maps to them over a coffee break one day! Nevermind when I installed Google Earth, the eyes lit up. They are really not used to doing anything really neat (or maybe more importantly really useful) with the net. Very interesting read about dragging the rest of the family into the internet/photo sharing space. I have taken a similar but less upfront method by creating a site separate from my more techie one that is directly aimed at my family. I haven’t emailed anything directly (other than the first notice with the blog address) but most of them do seem to keep up with what I’ve posted on the blog. My rationale is to then introduce things like Flickr, Google Maps, Google Earth, rss aggregation, podcasting etc.. and other concepts in a more gentle way to maybe get them knowledgeable. I’d like to do it without scaring them . BTW, it’s not just an age or education thing either. I work with a dozen guys of which most are engineering graduates and in their late-twenties and for the most part they don’t have a clue about rss, blogs, podcasting, flickr or any of that stuff. You should have seen the look on their faces when I demonstrated Google Maps to them over a coffee break one day! Nevermind when I installed Google Earth, the eyes lit up. They are really not used to doing anything really neat (or maybe more importantly really useful) with the net.

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