Category: People issues

Oct 07 2005

New skills, new era

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, People issues
7 October 2005

Tim at Cutting Through reads the same newspaper as me. He, too, was struck by an article in today’s Guardian about the changes in media habits of the current generation of 14-21-year-olds: a third of all young people online have launched their own blog or website. As Tim points out, this generation of the ‘ultrawired’ …

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Oct 06 2005

Teleworking revolution: not yet

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, People issues
6 October 2005

A Silicon.com leading article discusses the latest findings from an Office of National Statistics (ONS) study of teleworking in the UK. The headline figures sound promising: home-working has more than doubled in the past eight years with 2.5 million Britons working at home. However, as Silicon.com points out, the majority were self-employed, and only a …

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Oct 05 2005

Trusting the internet

By Paul Wilkinson in Internet, People issues
5 October 2005

One objection some people have to use of web-based technologies concerns security, and their lack of trust in the technologies to manage confidential or sensitive information. Yet, this uncertainty is slowly declining – the latest evidence comes from a survey of attitudes to online banking. The survey (reported by Silicon.com here) suggests more than a …

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Oct 03 2005

Social aspects of collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues
3 October 2005

As a sociologist (OK, my doctorate was in criminology, but I had to do all the sociological stuff first) now working in the construction industry, I have long been interested in team dynamics – an interest stimulated still further by the challenge of incorporating technology into the mix. Thanks to the guys at Cutting Through …