Myspace, Spam, Safe Practice, Business and Children Making Me Think To The Future!

From my experience, I get more spam through my work and personal emails, despite all the firewalls, especially at work.

I am finding that those who email through my 'myspace' are those who really wish to be involved in the charity, want more information, wish to join, wish to donate, or are just willing to help spread the word. After 4 weeks not one email that was not of interest - no spam.

Sometimes you do find the creeps asking for approval to be your friend but it is easy you just deny them access. If anyone slips through it is easy to check your friends and block those who you do not want or need.

I am in the process of designing a strategy to manage all that comes in. I would dare to suggest this is the beginning of businesses beginning to work with such tools as an add on to their exisiting websites.

Haystack (the haystack project) is a business to business networking tool and whilst young - it has to start somewhere, just as myspace did.

I will even be bold to enough to suggest, especially after reading the articles that I have provided the links for, that their is already a generation in the workforce that find blogging an everyday part of life. Those entering now and in the future will be able to do alot more with these networking tools - will be curious about them and use them as a little play ground - all of this will change businesses as they will need to adopt new practices - led by the workforce as we as educators are being led as to what we need to provide by the learners.

Our learners are changing - faster than we may realise and personally I do not think the TAFE education system is any near being able to keep up and provide the learners with a learning environment and pedagogy that will suit them.

Okay - I have just put myself out on a limb here with such comments, but it is my opinion.

Something to conisder and it scared me into a realisation that kids are changing the way they interact maybe more than we realise.

My teenage boys had a little brawl recently before I got home. Once home they told me what happened but they had sorted it out and all was fine.

How did they sort it out. They gave each other space, went into their rooms which are next door to each other and began messaging each other via msn, until they had calmed, cleared the air over the internet and then went outside and shot hoops. SCARY but boy - oh so thought provoking.