http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/07/07/communication-culture-and-short-text-messages/ Understanding technology ... in both senses of the phrase Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:32:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.texttechnologies.com/2008/07/07/communication-culture-and-short-text-messages/#comment-44311 Daniel Weinreb Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:06:40 +0000 http://www.texttechnologies.com/?p=256#comment-44311 I sense a bit of confusion in the Tom Davenport's posting. Sometimes he's talking about whether information will flow freely in an organization, and other times he's talking about whether an organization will become more democratic, with a front-line worker's opinion as important as that of the CEO. The latter certainly isn't going to happen just from technology, if it happens at all. But the former does not strike me as problematic. At my workplace, we have an in-house Wiki, and also an in-house document management system, which have been quite helpful in allowing information to flow between us. I sense a bit of confusion in the Tom Davenport’s posting. Sometimes he’s talking about whether information will flow freely in an organization, and other times he’s talking about whether an organization will become more democratic, with a front-line worker’s opinion as important as that of the CEO. The latter certainly isn’t going to happen just from technology, if it happens at all. But the former does not strike me as problematic. At my workplace, we have an in-house Wiki, and also an in-house document management system, which have been quite helpful in allowing information to flow between us.

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