I've been at my current employer for 10 years now. I have seen many changes with an exception in the technology area. To give you an idea, we still use Okidata 320 printers, pretty sure they made the Smithsonian decades ago. And don't even get me started on the Cobalt programming, we do have potential to change this one in the next year! So technology is not a high priority. A couple of years ago we were FORCED to have a facebook page, per vendor demand. It took mountains for our home office to "get over" this one. But they seem to like it now. I don't see blogging in the near future. We could use it similar to our facebook page. We post sales, promotions and special events there. Only about 5% of our customers access our facebook page and about half of that would blog. (I work in agriculture, farmers want crops to grow and cows to produce. Most could care less about a blog. Not degrading anyone of them, but a blog about "us" not a top priority for them.)
Karen Eisman 6.3 part 2
Hi Karen,
ReplyDeleteI think its intresting how they think that its not that important keeping up with the latest technology. Because new technology makes things so much more efficient. Also what made you want to work in agriculture?
Alissa Kartavtseva
Alissa, I agree technology is highly important! I didn't really decide to work in ag., I do love the farm life and working with the farmers but I'm more for the accounting part of my job. Hopefully, will advance to farm credit. Thank you for your post.
ReplyDeleteThat is a great post Karen! While this great world is advancing far beyond the farmers in social media, it's nice to know there will always be someone that remembers how to do things from scratch. :)
ReplyDeleteThat was Julie. :)
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