If I’ve been driving a car for 20 years does that make me a mechanic? If I’ve been baking cakes for 10 years, does that make me a pastry chef? If I’ve been on Twitter for 2 years does that mean I am a social web expert? Often in the discussion of expertise about technologies, many fall into the trap of associating the length of usage as an indicator of expertise. In the blog entries mentioned in the previous post, many discussed ‘usage’ of social web technologies – how many years used, in what ways, which tools – as an indicator of expertise.
Technology usage as an indicator of expertise is not new or unique to the social web context, but is most certainly fatally flawed. » Read more: Measuring Social Web Expertise: Moving Beyond Usage Experience!
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