At 17:20 05/12/95 GMT, you wrote:

Hi,

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I would like to hear any opinions about this. Has anybody any other suggestions as to how the education of the eventual end-users of this new technology should be achieved?

One way I'm trying to do it is to 'force' them to use the web by making it the *only* source of certain internal documents, eg minutes of meetings, etc.

Sure, that is the 'stick' approach, and it has value, but I have found the 'carrot' also to be useful. I have shown academic staff here at Southampton that our research group has had : 1) numerous, sensible applications for postdoctoral positions advertised on the webpages (how much is an ad in Ch in Brit ? or New Scientist ?) 2) applications from overseas undergraduates _with_their_own_funding_ who had found our research on the webpages 3) suggestions for collaboration from other researchers/institutions. Much more interest was definitely shown by academic staff on hearing the above and, as previously said, once people begin to realise the *potential* of the web it seldom takes long for them to start using it. Dave Currie p.s. I am a postdoc, and it interesting to see what the positions are of the people who are administering depts' web pages ! ************************************************************ * Dr Dave Currie --------------- * * Superconductivity Research Group | O | * * Chemistry Department | | O | * * University of Southampton | |/ | * * Southampton, United Kingdom, SO17 1BJ | O---Cu----O | * * Tel. 01703-593304; FAX 01703-593592 | / | | * * Chemistry Webmaster | O | | * * http://www.soton.ac.uk/~chemweb | O | * * EMAIL dbc@soton.ac.uk |_______________| * * Web //www.soton.ac.uk/~dbc * ************************************************************ ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)