Getting the powers that be interested in the web

[Dave Currie]

At 17:20 05/12/95 GMT, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>  I would like to hear any opinions about this.  Has anybody any  
>> other suggestions as to how the education of the eventual end-users  
>> of this new technology should be achieved?
>
>One way I'm trying to do it is to 'force' them to use the web by making it
>the *only* source of certain internal documents, eg minutes of meetings, etc.

Sure, that is the 'stick' approach, and it has value, but I have found the
'carrot' also to be useful. I have shown academic staff here at Southampton
that our research group has had :

1) numerous, sensible applications for postdoctoral positions advertised on
the webpages (how much is an ad in Ch in Brit ? or New Scientist ?)

2) applications from overseas undergraduates _with_their_own_funding_ who
had found our research on the webpages

3) suggestions for collaboration from other researchers/institutions.

Much more interest was definitely shown by academic staff on hearing the
above and, as previously said, once people begin to realise the *potential*
of the web it seldom takes long for them to start using it.

Dave Currie

p.s. I am a postdoc, and it interesting to see what the positions are of the
people who are administering depts' web pages !


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