Mark your calendars everyone, because Friday is national Silver Surfers Day! (in the UK) It's a day of education and awareness promoting the idea of web literacy for folks 50 years and older.
With plenty of local support for adult education (Hi, JALC!), wouldn't this be a great event for us to celebrate as well? I mean, there is no real online community until all of us are fairly represented, is there? You know the young punks are always going to represent. (Hi, young punks!) But sometimes some of the rest of us appreciate a good old-fashioned nudge from the unwired world to get us going.
We could even do this event in conjunction with other web literacy promotionals.
How about "Critical Mass: online edition"? People surfing wirelessly on their laptops scattered randomly around the sidewalks of downtown Carbondale impeding pedestrian traffic and serving as a visual map of local web hotspots?
Or even a "Surf to Work Day"? Hundreds of local folks doing their jobs from home, meeting for synchronous chat at a pre-determined place and time (online). Prize for the "least-travelled"? Lunch ordered online and delivered? (travel to front door will not count in determining awards) [My spidey-sense tells me Dave may have explored this idea before.]
There's still time to make the local web a haven for local people. More generations of folks online means more opportunities for finding Consumer Created Content online.
Are you down with the CCC?
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