Yesterday went along to Records Management Society meeting of Wales / West Midlands. Interesting day! Particulary as a coach load of students came along from Aberyswth University.

In the afternoon one of the asked ‘what’s going to be the impact on the workplace of the digital natives entering?’.

Waking up at 5.30am this morning, the first thought that occured to me was ‘brevity’. For a generation learned in the way of social networking, instant messaging, Facebook, Twitter, SMS, blogs – they’ll want brief and constant streams of information; not huge long reports. In which case, it won’t be word  processing packages either – but different tools. That’s going to set up yet another interesting challenge in terms of how organisations make use of technologies.