It might be good to randomly pair people together (or 2 or 3 together depending upon the size of the group of participants) so that there is required interaction.
With few participants actually progressing in working in the 23 things, there are very few comments available to read plus no real incentive to read others UNLESS forced to do so.
So, grouping people together and requiring commenting on your partner's blog entries would increase the social networking aspect of this.
Everett Rogers in his classic book "Diffusion of Innovations" (1962) mentions several factors that are needed for most people to accept a new idea, product or service.
Why did very few (to date) of our library folks participate fully in the 23 things?
They probably did NOT see any "relative advantage" to learning these things. This is one of Roger's keys for acceptance of an innovation.
People have been doing their jobs just fine (they think) and did not see that learning any of this could offer an advantage. So, it may be important to make sure folks see and feel a relative advantage to accepting these new technologies and services.
I am glad I participated and have used some of the online image generators in teaching sessions.
Thank you for teaching us.
Tomi E.
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