Facilitating Adoption of Web 2.0 Tools

Nancy White just posted Second Wave Adoption where she discusses various aspects of helping adoption of Web 2.0 type approaches. This is definitely an interesting question and something I've written about before:

• eLearning Technology: Adoption of Web 2.0 and eLearning 2.0 Revisited
• Enterprise 2.0 - What's the PU?
• Web 2.0 Adoption in the Enterprise - It's Personal

These posts may be worth reading, but the basic gist is that adoption starts from the personal utility - actually its the perceived usefulness (PU), but that's roughly the personal utility.

Nancy's post has some ideas (slides) about how to facilitate adoption and she points to a few other posts: Focusing, Stimulate people's imagination, trigger inventiveness.

I simply wanted to add to what she is saying that adoption is going to be dependent on us first learning how to use these tools ourselves and then showing others. Maybe take a look at:

• Personal Learning for Learning Professionals - Using Web 2.0 Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective
• Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools