Nine Shift

Do you like Wikipedia?

The battle over the legitimacy of Wikipedia is on. How do you vote?

At issue is the legitimacy and value of having everyone and anyone provide content, change other content, and generally provide information without a gatekeeper, supervisor or censor. 

The Wikipedia battle is seen here in Wisconsin, where rival boat ferry companies crossing Lake Michigan have started firing Wiki-pedos at  each other in Wikipedia entries.  One says people get seasick on the other ferry; the other mistates how long its rival takes to cross the huge lake.  Wikipedia had to lock out unauthorized authors from future postings about the two ferries. (photo of SS Badger, one of the ferries)

So, is customers-create-content legit and the wave of the future? Or is Wikipedia a nice but futile try,  creating InfoChaos?  Vote now!   Tell us your opinion : :

Upcoming Nine Shift events

New! We've expanded the NineShift keynote and now have a one-day seminar version of Nine Shift for executives and other audiences. Email me at draves@lern.org if you are interested.

NineShift this fall:
* Tiffin University, Tiffin, Ohio, Aug. 25
* Real estate executives and Building Owners and Managers Association, in Fairfield, Hartford and another city, Connecticut, Sept 21
* California State University, Long Beach, Oct. 5
* North Carolina Adult and Continuing Education Association, Raleigh, Oct 18
* Cushman & Wakefield, corporate meeting, Phoenix, Oct. 12
* Smart Boys, Bad Grades, Anoka, Minn.  Oct 9
* Smart Boys, Bad Grades (Julie presenting), Woodbury, MN, Oct 11
* Utah Continuing Education Conference, Salt Lake City, Oct 23
* Premiere of Nine Shift one day seminar, Harper College, Chicago, Nov 1
* American Amusement and Park Association, Atlanta, Nov 14
* Minnesota Recreation and Park Association, Minneapolis, Nov 15
* New! Nine Shift for 2007.  LERN annual conference, Baltimore, Dec 2

A Nine Shift class!

Hi folks--just wanted to let you know that tomorrow I'll begin teaching a First Year Seminar at Christopher Newport University in Newport News VA titled "Office Space: Exploring How Gen Y Talks About Work". Our primary text? Your book "Nine Shift". I'm a Communication Studies prof and as I was looking for a thought provoking text I came across your website and decided to use the text to get these college freshmen thinking about the future of their worklife--and mine!! I'll keep you posted on how it goes--any thoughts you have on my grand experiment are most welcome. I'm a baby boomer--not yet very Internet/web savvy, but I'm going to get this class to bring me up to speed!!

 

All the best,

Claire Jacobs, Ph.D.

Comm. Studies, CNU

cjacobs@cnu.edu