On Friday the 11th of July we held our first Workshop in Cairns :

Multimedia Communication / Networking and Collaborative technology

We covered a multitude of topics from Web 2.0 and the new Enterprise to how they Y Generation is perceived and how best to work with them.

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This was a letter I was replying to recently with regards to the definitions and uses of different online networks. Let me know what you think? 

Firstly what is digital networking? Its simply a way of communicating via the Internet.

New public digital forums have sprung up over the last 10 years but just like Alexander Graham Bell had to wait until quite a few people had a phone before his invention started to work for him, there had to be a critical mass of people who knew about these digital forums before they became popular. Now here is where I can directly address your concerns. Let us say that once we all had a phone and all the phone lines were in place and we were all calling each other merrily chatting each day suddenly someone who was very popular and rather powerful set up an entirely new copper wire phone network and it started to take off. Some of your friends signed up for this new network and stopped using the old one. Those people now couldn't call you as there were now two separate physical copper lines and you started to lose touch with them and it seamed the world was going a little mad. They then started to post you letters (they can't call you) asking you to come across to their new network. Well that it what is happening in the digital forum space. This is the deluge of invitations you get from ex-colleagues, friends, family people who you thought had left Australia and were now in Guatemala who all of a sudden have an e-mail in your in box saying in a very often formal manner:

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The generations are getting closer together and more diversified than previously. I know a number of Baby Boomers who simply don't understand that they are not employing a replica of their own generation. The latest employable generation or what are referred to in Don Tapscotts book Wikinomics as the Net Generation are never going to be the same as the managers employing them and frankly don't want to be. They want fun and excitement in the workplace and with that they bring a whole lot of social and business networking skills. Haven't the Baby Boomers always said it's who you know and not what you know, well believe you me this generation have that taped. While their parents spent hours wasted, watching a square box with mindless soaps and advertising this generation are communicating and boy do they have a zillion ways of doing that.

 I'm interested to hear you take on this?