Alison wrote:

> Our first discussion on the uses of computers (and the Internet) for
> health promotion was led off by list facilitator [extraordinaire!] Liz
> Rykert, and it still holds true today - here it is, slightly 
> adapted for
> 2006, with hopes that you will join in a renewed discussion 
> of the same
> issues:
> 
> "What are your lessons learned to date with respect to 
> incorporating the
> Internet in your work?
> 
> You may want to take one aspect - training, facilitating, on-line
> mediation, creating on-line culture/atmosphere, mentoring, 
> connectivity
> planning and design in health promotion, etc., - and roll out your
> observations in small bites."

Great question!  I might have to come back to it -- and I hope others will post on this and give me food for thought.  

Off the top of my head, I'll say that the lessons I've learned have been about the power of flexibility and changeability.  If you can't use the Internet one way to do something, find something, or convey something, there'll be another way, and another.  One learns to be like water and to go around the obstacles, and to keep an eye out for new possbilities.

Another lesson might be about the vastly expanded network of connections the Internet makes possible.  Not just connections between people (although of course those connections are critical) but between arguments, ideas, and bits of information generally.  Because of these connections the Internet allows me to draw from a much broader flow of information than was possible previously.

Of course, I look at things very much from an information-oriented point of view, so I am looking forward to hearing from others whose health promotion work differs --

Robyn Kalda
Health Promotion Information Specialist
OPC Health Promotion Resource Centre
(416) 408-2249 x226 
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