Thought I would pass this on. It’s a response to a person who believes twitter has nothing to add to the training and learning field. The thread was started initially when I posted about efforts to create a community of practice for trainers, instructional developers, etc, via twitter. Comments?
> ===>From TRDEV-L<===
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> Robert,
>
> Perhaps I’ve not been quite clear as to my experience with Twitter.
> While I have no account, I have seen the web pages of several of those
> who do “twitter” and the messages that they have sent. There are
> several of the business shows that I watch who have Twitter accounts, as
> well as other pages that I’ve seen now and then, and they all look
> pretty much as the one you shared. I’m not sure that I have to have an
> actual account to make a decision that it would or wouldn’t work for me.
>
To tell you the truth, I’m ABSOLUTELY amazed that any professional
trainer cannot make the important distinction between the experience
of participating in a process, and watching a static “picture” of the
process. I don’t quibble with your opinion about twitter, but the
“arrogance” factor pushing you to believe you “know” without the
experience is pretty amazing.
Seriously. Do you do the same for ropes courses? Or do “observers”
watch you work without participating and form negative opinions?
> I find that the messages are of such trivial and brief nature as to be
> useless. While I don’t want to waste a lot of time on sifting through
> information, I’d rather have the information be useful and complete
> rather than to be so brief as to be meaningless. Without context it
> pretty much is meaningless, and Twitter doesn’t offer much context.
Actually it’s YOU that doesn’t have a context, which is fine. You
don’t need to have one to hold an opinion. Neither do you need direct
experience, knowledge, skill, etc.
> > It is much like the comments by
people at the bottom of articles on some sites > on the internet. We have
no idea about the credibility of the commenter, and so > often the
comments are so useless as to be a total waste of time.
The above comment is clearly from someone who hasn’t taken the time.
Actually, like anything you learn about credibility thru experience,
which you lack with twitter. Besides, the above comment could be
addressed to any medium, including books, TV, and this discussion. In
short, it’s nonsense.
It only took
> a couple of times of reading these kinds of comments to determine that
> they are a waste of time for me. I don’t read them and I don’t waste my
> time posting to them.
No context comes from not experiencing the INTERACTION, which you
haven’t.
>
Look, Gary, I hold lots of dumb opinions about things with which I
have little or no direct experience. Old age seems to bring more. But
please, OH, please spare me the dumbass rationalizations. You don’t know.
You haven’t experienced it. You don’t want to experience it.
You have, in effect, an ignorant, uninformed opinion. Please don’t
dress that pig up in fancy clothes, at least for the sake of others
who might put some credence in your opinion, perhaps foolhardidly.
http://twitter.com/rbacal
