Art Online: How Tech Savvy Are You?

Do you lot take away to live on tech savvy every bit an artist?

I'm delivering a workshop tomorrow well-nigh how to acquire your fine art online. One of the get-go issues I'm addressing is how "tech savvy" people are - helped past times OFCOM's novel enquiry study on how Techie teens are shaping communications

Critical issues relating to getting their fine art online for many artists include:

• how familiar they are amongst technology scientific discipline as well as associated software
• how confident they are that they tin empathize as well as role them properly

In other words a lot of the practical issues relate to how tech savvy they are!  My workshop volition live on looking at ways to improve how tech savvy you lot are.

Testing your digital quotient 

Did you lot know your digital quotient tin live on measured? This is a technical term for how tech savvy you lot are.

Did you lot know that:

• 6-7 twelvemonth olds accept an average DQ (digital quotient) score of 98 (if exposed to novel technology scientific discipline as well as its uses), 
• 45 as well as 49 twelvemonth olds score an average of 96. (Think well-nigh it as well as reread the get-go bullet point!)
• Digital agreement peaks inwards those aged 14-15 years-old. On average their DQ is 113. 
• Being tech savvy falls off amongst historic catamenia after fifteen as well as after historic catamenia 45 it is below average.
• more than 60% of people aged 55 as well as over accept a below average 'DQ' score

However this is all to produce amongst the amount of technology scientific discipline nosotros are exposed to, how oftentimes nosotros role it ("use it or lose it"), how difficult nosotros endeavour to empathize it as well as the amount of assistance nosotros acquire amongst using it.

Which is how I explicate my tech savvy score of 117 - come across my score outcome below - as well as I'm having a major birthday afterwards this twelvemonth as well as am already drawing a pension!

You every bit good tin acquire your tech savvy score using an abbreviated version of the OFCOM Digital Quotient questionnaire

My Tech savvy score using an abbreviated version of the questionnaire

Being tech savvy as well as communicating effectively every bit an creative individual (e.g. having an effective website as well as presence on social media) doesn't "just happen" if you lot are no longer inwards your teens as well as twenties.  You tin devise strategies to improve how tech savvy you lot are.

My personal persuasion is that I alone got a relatively high tech savvy score past times working away at agreement novel technology scientific discipline as well as what it tin produce - as well as using the resources made available past times people (often online) which assistance me to learn.

So 3 questions:

• How tech savvy are you?  (I dare you lot to percentage your score!)
• Is your score amend or worse than the average for your age?
• What are YOUR effective strategies for improving how tech savvy you lot are?

More well-nigh this on this spider web log inwards the coming months..........

Incidentally I highly recommend a read of the OFCOM study if you lot desire to see into the futurity inwards damage of how communication inside the fine art marketplace volition change. I'll also come upwardly dorsum to this inwards a futurity spider web log post.

Link: View Ofcom’s 2014 Communications Market Report

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