Now with more tubes!
Posted in Rants/Raves on 06/10/2008 11:04 pm by enjanerdTonight was the big end-of-year turnover meeting and dinner for the engineering society I’m a member of. It was kind of awesome, in that it did, in fact, fill me with awe.
I’ve been webmaster for the local chapter for a few years now. And for the most part, no one visits the website and I’m the last to hear about stuff that typically would get announced on said website.
So, I was rather unsurprised to see that on the agenda for today’s meeting was “Web 2.0″. As discussed by 3 guys who asked me today what to do with the FTP login/password that national sent out to our section last week after the “catastrophic hardrive failure”. But they’re totally stoked about this internets thing everyone’s talking about.
By the time we get to that agenda item, we’re running about 10 minutes late and all our significant others are gathering a few blocks away for the fancy dinner. I want to move this along, but I’m also interested in what they think this is and why it’s so important to implement RIGHT NOW.
They explain that at the recent meeting for all the incoming Chairs and Vice-Chairs, the big-wigs up at national have hired some consultants to put together a shiny, new website for them. And it will be totally Web 2.0. Great… so what does that mean? Well, people will be able to see our calendar and get updates about our events.
Oh, you mean like the iCal I set up 2 years ago where people could choose to subscribe or download the whole season, or import specific events? Or the RSS feed that I was told to take down “because no one knows what that is.”
Oh, that’s right. No one visits the website. But it’ll be like MySpace. Will someone make a Facebook group for us? Will you friend me?
The Chair didn’t even know we had a calendar. Why do we need Web 2.0 again?