Six personal qualities: generosity, discipline, patience, perseverance, insight, analysis

Description of how thses six personal qualities apply to the world of e-culture, the most successful killer applications and my personal activities. How do I personally cultivate insight ?Distinction between real generosity and generosity from sales generosity strategies.

These six qualities do apply to the world of e-culture : generosity illustrates e-culture because one the greatest characteristics of e-culture is to share and to give as much information and services as one can. Skype is of course a great example of this generosity. This leads me to the distinction between “real” ans “strategical” generosity. I would say that real generosity is more a personal matter, it is mostly what you share with other people in terms of ideas, passions, communication... though it can also be a concrete help that you provide to someone, while strategical generosity is more related to companies which take advantage of offering services or information, because the relation to customer always implies a joint-venture aspect, weather this is implicit or more explicit. To myself, generosity is the best way to establish enjoyable and rich relations with people and feel in harmony with people in such a hard world of competition and challenge. I recently discovered this photos sharing site : I think it’s a nice example of generosity: it’s a great sharing experience because it goes beyond the photos you make available : you also share your passions and personal motivations with other people.
I’m afraid I will lack time to discuss all six qualities we discussed in class. Therefore I will make the choice to pick one more that also is essential, that is insight. Indeed, it is very exciting to learn and to be contact with others, but sometimes we can easily forget the most essential : that is what is our personal purpose with sharing and learning. It’s not always easy, but insight helps to remind that’s there’s no need to ever run faster, we sometimes need to walk quietly and think of what we’re looking for, what we wish four ourselves and people we care for. I think that this insight can lead one to the real well being, and that it is a essential path to harmony. try myself (even if it’s hard these days ...) to keep in mind and develop the reasons why I’m here in the Celsa, why it is important to me to go into e-culture and what this will bring to me more generally.
Very clicky now, perseverance and patience are gold rules in every situation, and e-culture doesn't represent an exception to this principle. For instance at first it can take time to get familiar with online tools or use new applications – I think for example of personalizing a blog, adding photos etc. But the time that you spend at first rewards you twice at the end : you get the expertise to do things quicker, and you access to new opportinuties oeffered by e-culture.

Is e-culture pro-social or anti-social?

Does it isolate people and create bad habits or bring them together and generate pro-social trends?

Well that’s a difficult question to answer. I think that e-culture can be both pro-social and anti-social. It is pro-social for several reasons : first of all because it links people together, but also because of the transparency it produces. As a few students noticed, some employees have denounced their working conditions on their blogs. Because the news spread so fast on the web, companies are now forced to take into account the fact that their “emploggers” can quickly and easily tell the world about the company’s practices, as Estelle showed us with Ubifree.
But unfortunately blogs can also have anti-social consequences. First of all there can divide the world between users and non-users, depriving the latter from various opportunities offered by blogs. Anyone should probably try to drop its old habits and contract new ones. Still some people might not have the capability to take advantage of e-culture tools. There also can be a vast debate on the characteristics of e-communication…it can be argued that virtual communication kills real communication. Some experts studying e-communication consider that communication on the Net is extremely poor and superficial. They refer to so-called “weak (social) links”. Anyway I’m not even sure that blogs can fit into this analysis because again, they are so personal and intimate. I actually think that they are a mini revolution within the e-culture itself. On a larger scale, some association like Vecam are fighting to try avoid a deep seam between the connected and the unconnected world. This can be seen within a society or in the world, particularly vetween the northern and the southern countries.

Characteristics of blogs and blogging

How do blogs validate or contradict the principles and qualities of E-culture ?

Blogs are undoubtedly a powerful illustration of e-culture qualities we discussed in class. One of these qualities is impermanence, which blogs illustrates because they are extremely volatile, like most of the web content because they are extremely volatile : new blogs are constantly created while other vanish at the same time. See how our bloggers community has quickly emerged this year. Blogs also clearly shows how e-culture lead people to drop old habits or, let’s say, how they quickly adopt a new one when it is meaningful and offers precious opportunities. The explosion of the blog practice shows this very well. This trend might concern especially young and culture oriented people, but as we saw in class, blogs are gaining field in the professional world too (employee’ blogs, corporate blogs, job research. A lot of recruiters now look for candidates on the web and examine their blogs to make a primary selection.
As far as transparency is concerned, I’m almost willing to say that blogs are almost transparency themselves. What is more transparent than presenting oneself to the world, in a totally free expression space ? Blogs are pioneers in a new type of transparency on the web. They are a totally new way of communicating, which might partly explain their wide success. As Christine showed us warblogs are (quite sadly) another kind of illustration of how blogs can promote transparency on the web.
Blogs illustrate precious opportunities because they offer people the opportunity to share their thoughts, passions, laughs and tears. Blogs are very personal, therefore the communication which takes place between people is a very precious dialog as well as a precious opportunity to communicate with anyone all over the world. They also connect people through specific communities and can sometimes bring unexpected opportunities, as Max revealed us with his personal experience.

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