In a message dated 12/16/01 5:12:44 PM, alan.stew...@senet.com.au writes: <<
This request stems from an approach to me from a person commissioned to promote better communication among IT people in a large corporation and their customers. Anyone have experience in working with "geeks/nerds" ie the technical people who create software and the hardware that runs it - on issues that cannot be addressed through engineering brainpower? And stories of where this happened? >> Alan, Well, a good first step would be to eliminate deprecating names. Although generally "accepted" as being supposedly descriptive, they hurt at soul level, imho. And I hardly know how to use email, much less write computer programs. But, in highschool, I was a "brain", and that wasn't said kindly. So, the old saw about sticks and stones and names is simply wrong. Names wound at levels that sticks and stones can never reach. Just one idea about how to start out improving communications. Paul Everett * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
