Comments on: Things change… http://paralleldivergence.com/2006/10/10/hello-world/ just when you think you've got it all together Tue, 10 Apr 2012 09:53:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: stuhasic http://paralleldivergence.com/2006/10/10/hello-world/#comment-4 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:48:12 +0000 #comment-4 Thanks Roger, I’m certain to be looking into the sorts of things I can add to the blog to make it better.

I like the comparison of change to ‘death’. While we’ve always had ‘spin-doctors’ to portray change in a more positive light, the problem is that there have been too many people that have been burned by false promises. They’ve all become more skeptical and resistant.

We need less selling of change and more actually doing and demonstrating it.

I certainly will be popping by at LIPS.

]]> By: Roger http://paralleldivergence.com/2006/10/10/hello-world/#comment-2 Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:50:29 +0000 #comment-2 Stu, great to see your blog up and running. As you know, I see this format as a great way to communicate in certain circumstances. You’ll find that there’s a large number of themes and plugins available for WordPress and I’ve added a plugin which allows people to subscribe their email address to be notified of site updates. I can think of some situations where this is really useful when people have been used to a listserv type of message delivery. I also like the availability of the RSS feed, and could see great value in people using a simple News Aggregator to be kept up to date with blogs and feeds from a number of different sources.

Change is something which seems to leave some people almost dealing with it as though it causes the ‘death’ of what they have come to know. The responses can follow the same cycles of denial, anger etc with some taking a long time to progress to any form of acceptance.

I like your metaphor of ‘parallel divergence’ .. it is a conundrum within itself .. Maybe we are seeing yet another example of the impact of an ‘internet paradigm’ on a social context. That is, we have made a shift away from the linear view of sequential growth and development into a mental model of interconnected mutliple pathways and places, media and messages..maybe, really, in this case: ‘the medium IS the message!”

I hope you get plenty of comments and opportunities to promote dialogue. Anybody reading this should also feel very welcome to drop by to the LIPS blog at http://pryorcommitment.com/lips2

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