The first discussion group of the day – I’m in the yellow group, and we are going to be discussing the use of mobile devices.<\/p>\n
The first question posed is – what are people doing now? Seems to be a feeling that at the moment there is some support of ‘traditional'(!) mobile computing (i.e. laptops). Also someone reporting an experience of students using SMS instead of email.<\/p>\n
The next question seems to be – should we be proactive, or just let it happen?<\/p>\n
One issue just coming up is ‘power’ – it is fine to be mobile – but if you don’t have power, then you can’t use the device for long. Especially true of laptops – not so true of handheld devices – pdas and mobile phones.<\/p>\n
Interesting issue here about handhelds – where is the line between mobiles and pdas? Mobiles are ubiquitous – and low cost. SMS is a standard – but perhaps more of a feed, rather than conversation? Has ‘realtime’ sms taken off?<\/p>\n
Keeping records up to date is an issue – but is it new. Mobile phone numbers change regularly – but is this a new problem, or just the same as knowing their postal address? There seems to be a feeling that if their is a motivation to get the information, people will make sure they can get. Possibly what we need to do is set up methods for users to specify preferences – how do they like to be communicated with? Push vs Pull. Reusable content an important issue here?<\/p>\n
Finding it difficult to keep up with the discussion here – time for a new post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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