Ecademy - A way of living

Using an on-line medium.... Update

Communication styles in an online network are pretty vital

About 18 months ago I wrote this article : Using an on-line medium for discussion – New game – New rules….. on Ecademy and some debates on Ecademy made me look at it again.

These thoughts fit in well with the thinking about readership styles discussed in this posting and these discussion issues affect both reading and writing styles.

The rules I discussed 18 months ago are as true now as they were then, the key rules I determined were...

Where is your attention?

I read Stowe Boyd's comments about attention profiling with interest. The idea of a markup language that allows us to define what has our attention and helps organisations to use that to push the right data to us is fascinating and although I can see it has big upsides I can also see big downsides.

There is no doubt though that in today's world grabbing our attention and keeping it is really important. So what might happen if we get this right?