The American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers recently surveyed its members and asked them some communications technology questions. I provided some ideas for the questions and they’ve shared the results with me. So here’s some items you might find interesting (I rounded out the #’s).
To start with, of the respondents, almost 70% are over 50 years old and an even higher percent are male. 97% say they have high speed internet access. 24% have visited Facebook. 24% have or visit blogs. 18% download podcasts. 9% use or visit LinkedIn. 55% use or visit YouTube. 5% subscribe to an RSS feed.
I find the RSS feed response interesting. The questions were very simple and perhaps there are some respondents who don’t even know they’re using RSS. But it’s one of the technologies I get asked about very often or find that people don’t understand very well.
Here are some of the additional comments that were posted:
My employer blocks You Tube, Facebook, and many blogging sites.
Most of these items are blocked by company servers
I believe in and use technology. Other than the internet, how do the above relate to the appraisal industry ?
We have an IT dept. that handles all this and sets up limitations for staff.
I read financial and economic blogs every day.
no time for a lot of this.
What is an RSS???
Pod casts, maybe very occasionaly. You tube, but rare, RSS?
Are you going to tell us what RSS is?
Yahoo search engine regularly.
Business operates in a corporate banking environement, many of these features are blocked or prohibited due to security and privacy concerns.
Too out of it to know what RSS is?
DO NOT LIKE LINKED IN OR UTUBE