Vis a vis the comments made by Judy Perry and others on this thread and others on the board regarding the state of funding for education....
It is appalling to me that as a country, the United States (and apparently this phenomenon is not a respecter of national borders) values education so little. My business partner's daughter has a degree in social service and education and wants to teach. Instead, she's a bartender because she can make more in a good weekend of tending bar than she can in a week of teaching. At lunch the other day, two of my other friends and colleagues were sharing stories about *their* daughters, who are both full-time teachers but who supplement their incomes with waitress jobs that end up paying them more in a year than their teaching positions. Funding for specific programs -- particularly those which, as Judy describes, are showing declining enrollments but may nonetheless be important to the overall value of education -- gets reduced while sports programs, MBA programs and other efforts designed more to feather the university's PR and endowment nest than to contribute to mankind, get increased. All that said, I don't believe this obligates any company to have a policy that so favors the educational community that it affects that company's ability to stay in business and serve its primary customer base well. And, before anyone jumps all over me again, I am *not* saying or implying that Judy or anyone else here suggests RunRev should do so. But even though Judy said in one of her replies that when it comes to creating and distributing Media "I think it costs the company nothing and has the potential to bring in a certain class of users." I'm sure she didn't mean that Rev Media didn't cost the company nothing, but only perhaps that having a strategy to sell such a product doesn't cut into the sales of their primary product line and in that sense isn't a revenue disruption. I'd like to see the educational administrators get their priorities together so that liberal arts programs aren't short-shrifted while business and science/technology programs explode. But in a sense, I suppose, they, too, are just responding to demand. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution