Re: Groupware and Learning LO2565

Carol Anne Ogdin (Carol_Anne_Ogdin@deepwoods.com)
24 Aug 95 20:16:23 EDT

Replying to LO2529 --

In LO2529, David Skyrme asks...

> As far as Rick's model is concerned, I personally prefer a model that
> makes the other axis not LO, but degree of social interaction. You can
> then get hi-tech, hi-touch in the upper right hand quadrant, while face to
> face is upper left etc. I once mapped different functional units within
> our organisation into these quadrants based on their use of different
> communications medium for certain business purposes - it was very
> instructive and acts as a diagnostic for where people are at. I suspect a
> lot of the current proponents of so called groupware are in the bottom
> right quadrant (hi tech, low touch) - can anyone thing of a suitable name
> for them??!

Propeller-heads? :^)

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