Getting people online is paramount to social media’s success

September 7, 2009 by Colby
Filed under: Social Media (General), Teaching 

A recent article about the different classes of people who adopt new technologies at different rates brings up an obvious but important point: the potential of social media will not be realized unless enough people actually use it.

The article links to this one describing some of the reasons why getting scientists online and interacting is so difficult.  Some are skeptical, some are overly independent, and some simply don’t realize the potential.  Without leaders taking the initiative and risks in these innovations, the nutrition field would fail to keep up with the inevitable changes that others do take advantage of.

This blog will highlight leaders in the nutrition field in hopes of showing how they better the field overall with their creative use of Web 2.0 technologies.

For the benefit of human knowledge, we must begin dropping asocial barriers and convincing those to experiment with new learning methods.  With an increasing specialization from rapidly growing research fields, we need to leverage collaborative technologies to augment our human limitations.

It all comes down to taking the time to show those who are slow to adopt social media tools their potential in changing healthcare and human knowledge.

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