Guest guest Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Information Gathering And Sharing Most of us grew up with the idea, without actually thinking about it, of aquiring information in a mainly passive manner. We got information via schools, newspapers, TV, our friends and aquaintances tell us something, etc. Most were all passive means of getting information. This approach became habitual for almost all of us. Most in depth research was beyond our physical abilities to do so. We didn't have access to special libraries, etc. and the time required to do any research was enourmous. With the advent of the internet and home computers all of that changed except our thinking. We had the world open to us, but our thinking was still somewhat stuck in analog in the past. We would go on the internet and maybe join a group or two. Read s few news services, but use the internet mainly like we had previously used previous information sources. we used it as a social channel also. It became a huge social channel of communication. Most groups became social channels no matter what the group subject of discussion. Most became more social channel than anything else. If we wanted to know something, we still asked our friends (now cyborfriends) what they thought, or passively read our newsletters. Why else limit an enquiry to a few people's thinking when it is easier to use a search engine and you can have the choice to read many thousands of people's thinking. We used search engines in a limited way, but that way doesn't feel as familar as the passive methods to most of us. And we were not used to sharing info except to our close friends and family. This group was started around the idea of discussing nutritional information with a few like minded individuals and sharing information with one another to further all of our understandings of those subjects. Since we placed emphasis on the quality of the information and kept the information flow somewhat restricted as we screened out most of the chitchat of social communications which can dominate and over ride most boards to the point of them becoming great social boards but almost worthless as real sources of good information. The group here grew in spite of our intention to be a small group. Also our field of interest grew as our understanding of the interconnectedness of many things grew also. Most of the people who came later along the way, either wanted to play the familar passive role discussed above, ask their new cybor friends for information, or they wanted to post a lot of chitchat like they did on other boards. Also a great many like to have the benefits but don't like the work involved to give back. It has been hard to maintain the integrity of the board and to keep it on track so to speak. How this group is supposed to work is that members will research an area of interest and when they find sonething they then share that with other members. It is a very hard concept to carry of with a large group. We do ask each other for information but that has to be balanced with research on our part also. We need to share information. We all need to help pull the load with research and sharing. We need to post the information in a clean readable manner and to do so may require a few basic computer skills. We need to think beyond the box sometimes without becoming so extreme that the information appears wildeyed craziness. And a ton of other things, but basically this is the group. I recommend that people join a few grops, to a few newsletters, read some websites,journals, online magazines, blogs, etc on a continuing basis. If yu find somethig that you think is worthy of sharing do so. If it has interest to you do some net surfing using search engine results also. each of those results can be a good source of further enquiries for further searches, etc. Post the nuggets to the group for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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