[LINK] "I don ' t understand computers" is not an excuse!

[Roger Clarke]

At 8:47 +1100 29/1/08, Stilgherrian wrote:
>I don't understand computers" is not an excuse
>If you own or manage a business that handles information (and which business
>doesn't?) then you must understand computers and the Internet. If you don't,
>you're incompetent. Yes, that's right, you heard me. Incompetent.

I know you want to keep it simple and to-the-point, but "here in the 
21st Century" there's a problem with the word 'computer'.

Sure, 'we' know what one is, and to some extent so does 'the public'; 
but the idea manifests itself very differently in different 
businesses.

Desktops, portables, handhelds, phones, smartcards, RFID tags, and 
that's without getting into the embedded ones in photocopiers, fuel 
injection, etc.

If micro and small businesspeople from 10 different sectors read the 
piece, will they interpret 'computer' in an appropriate way?

If not, they may dismiss the piece as too superficial.

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