There should be a course in the curriculum called, "How to Survive and Thrive in a Information-Centric World." And one major objective of the course should be taken from the Chinese proverb: "The clumsy bird that flies early gets to the forest first." The course should include the history of the Luddite movement and what eventually happened to cottage weavers.
Everybody lives in an information-centric, knowledge-driven world now. Professionals that don't thrive in this environment will eventually wind up working at Mickey D's, where they will enter the orders they take into an automated, touch-screen system.
Or they end up as information-driven drones, talking on their cell phones while they walk or drive, reading their e-mail on their Blackberrys while they sit on the john, and spending their weekends staring at their computer moniters while they telework from home.
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>>;I'm assuming that the point of this question is not a specific organization's needs assessment. The responses it will yield will be useful for workforce development. If we're thinking in a general way about the tech skills that will be useful for the nonprofit workers of the future, then this question is a good tool for brainstorming. We need to think now about training. We need to incorporate these skills into various curricula - not just for support staff, but also for students in MSW, MPA, and MBA programs.>>
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