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[Rick Welykochy]

Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net wrote:

> I recognise that many people in IT don't know anyone who is complaining,
> but that speaks more to the narrow circles many people mix in (me included)
> not a reflection of the real environment.
> Case in point, I am involved in a newish community group who does almost
> 100% of our coordination online.
> We now have a few members who do not have access to email, and only patchy
> access to a website. Communicating with them is hard.
> They would certainly struggle if the only channel to monitor their income
> statements was online.

Off Topic: a friend of mine joined a community garden project
last summer. The only problem was organising who does what with
the garden and when. So the organiser opted for an online
Google spreadsheet. That was enough to throw the entire project
into chaos and it died within a month.

Many of the people were older folk and had no idea how to get
online and access the activies roster in Google.

A perfect example of throwing technology at a problem that does
not really need solving. We've managed to co-ordinate a bunch of
gardeners or weavers or whatever forever without technology. My
friend was floored that a simple paper-based roster "was out of
the question."

Big sigh.

cheers
rickw



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it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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