[Sigia-l] Needs Analysis

[Ed Housman]

I am out here on Martha's Vineyard, my
first winter on an island.  

I found the "locals" to be a wonderful bunch, and I
volunteered (as a retired information scientist)
to help out be several local organizations in their
use
of modern computer technology.  Two are Historical
Society
and group trying to set up a kind of electronic
university.

In working up web page (hesitantly launched last
night)
for the "university", I began to realize that the very
creation of a site for an organization like this
forces
it to take a deep look at its missions and needs...

I saw this happening, and I wonder if any of you have
noticed this effect.  Also, anyone who is interested
can visit www.nathanmayhew.org

I would appreciate your biting criticism.  It was my
first experience with Dreamweaver.

--Ed Housman

Oh, for any of you who are interested in my progress
in digesting our comments on "Data vs. Information",
I have not given up.  I have all the comments in a
full text search engine and am probing for subthemes.
The piece is being set up as a semi-humourous Socratic
dialog among a group of itchy gremlins.

Actually, our conversation has come to the attention
of the
1876th Annual Intergalactic Conference on the Habits
of
Strange Beings.  They set up a committee to rake
through
our remarks and make some sense of them.

The committee meeting has begun with a report on the
concept of CONTEXT.  If anyone wants to see my
early draft, just sing out.

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