Comments on: Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz

By: Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Books for an Enterprise 2.0 Canon

Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Books for an Enterprise 2.0 Canon — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:33:37 +0000

[...] 2.0: Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz is the best treatment I’ve seen so far of the demographic aspects — 4 [...]

By: Tim Aldiss

Tim Aldiss — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:39:02 +0000

Speaking optimistically as a Gen X’er I’d like to think that our generation (which as probably been able to live through more change than any of the others) is best placed to support and realise initiatives of the Milenials.

It remains to be seen whether the current era of accelerated innovation will sustain itself – the more involved, advanced and complicated it gets (despite the advent of solutions like cloud computing… explain that to anyone!) the more processes and systems will need to be bullt to support.

The revolution of the crowd has to be superceded some time.

By: Enterprise 2.0 Blog » Blog Archive » Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: The Reactions

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:01:10 +0000

[...] topic are based on analysis of my own experiences using ideas from Rob Salkowitz‘ book, Generation Blend, I asked him to weigh in. He did, over email, and since the response was so interesting, I asked if [...]

By: Enterprise 2.0 blog » Blog Archive » Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:51:01 +0000

[...] enterprise social engineering (for background, try Generation Blend by Rob Salkowitz, which I reviewed and summarized on my blog). The salient [...]

By: The Millenial Bug « Infovark

The Millenial Bug « Infovark — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:17:08 +0000

[...] Rob’s book yet, but In the wake of our conversation, I am definitely going to check it out. (Venkat’s Review over on RibbonFarm is also a good [...]

By: Venkat

Venkat — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:26:50 +0000

Good point. Salkowitz addresses this in the book, by segmenting into younger/older members of each gen. He talks about 2nd half boomers as ‘arriving late to a party in its weird, 2nd half stage’ and points out a number of consequences, including the greater comfort with computers. In fact the 2nd half of the boomers invented personal computing. The first half of Gen X took personal computing from ‘baby’ to ‘mature’ technology….

By: irving

irving — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:58:33 +0000

One aspect of the generational split that doesn’t often get much attention is that “boomers” are not really one group. Those, like me, who were born in the last few years of the baby boom have almost nothing in common with the ones born at the beginning. We were too young to go to Woodstock or Vietnam, hated the hippies, and are far more comfortable with computers than the majority of the older ones will ever be.

I’ve seen plenty of older boomers who still treat computer technology the way my 82 year old father does: As some kind of new-fangled toy that’s nice for the kids to play with but has nothing whatever to do with real life.

Those people will see efforts to use technology to “capture” their knowledge as being annoying and pointless.

The technology gap is bigger than some of us, who work with the newer technologies every day, realize. Trust me on this …