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[Room 120] Brainstorm - Bridging the Web 2.0 Generation Gap

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[Room 120] Brainstorm on Bridging the Web 2.0 Generation Gap with Doug Black @dlblack and @JessieX and @krazykriz

Andrew’s blog (@krazykriz) http://generationshift.blogspot.com - he’ll post his presentations there and they are also below.

@dlblack - Is there a generation Gap with Web 2.0 tools adoption? If so, what do we do about it?

Unique sceanrio in the govt: The Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Xers, Millenials (Gen Y)

@JesseX - Four architypes:

Prophet/Idealist - Dominant
- define inner world of values and culture
- baby Boomer (1943 - 1960)
- Hippies

Nomad/Reactive - Reccesive
- pragmatic check on idealist excesses
- Thirteenth/Gen X (1961 - 1981)
- Juvenile Delinquents

Hero/Civic - Dominant
- rebuild the outer world of technology and institution
- GI, (1901 - 1924)
- Millenial (1982 - 200?)
- Boy Scouts

Artist/Adaptive - recessive
- ameliorate Civic excess and omissions
- Silent (1925 - 1942)
- Homeland (?)

Gov20Camp - Generations and Social Media

Generation C - consumer generating content - some one of any age that is actively using social media.

Stat: There are more boomers on the internet than milenials.

Important to understand online pursuits by generation.

USA Today article Boomers zero in on Social Media.

Boomers aren’t really going to retire - will take second careers to help others.

Gen Xers are right in the middle - those who feel like they didn’t have a voice.

Social media can help bridge the gap to government jobs (millenials)

Social media is not just for kids

Great need for training

Must be sensitive to people of all ages

Boomers need to create the culture now

Recruitment o f new

E-mail: transactional allows for control. Web 2.0 is much more horizontal.

Gen Xers (nomad architype) - hit childhood when children were a hassle. Millenials hit young adulthood in an opposite environment. Boomers are oriented towards turf.

This country needs practical Gen X leaders to serve as leadership.

Assume the monetary system that we know will not exist in short order.

2005 Census

Boomers - 64 million
Generation - 81 million
Millennial - 79 million

Social media bridges the gap because we don’t see ages.

Make it about the millennials, because Gen Xers will need to siphon between the two.

Craft your need in support of the rising generation.

Here’s a link to the Twitter stream from this session: http://tinyurl.com/c3ec23

Tags: #gov20camp, generation gap, room 120, Web 2.0