Brand New!! Fine Art Online: How Tech Savvy Are You?

Do yous quest to last tech savvy every bit an artist?

I'm delivering a workshop tomorrow near how to acquire your fine art online. One of the get-go issues I'm addressing is how "tech savvy" people are - helped yesteryear OFCOM's novel inquiry 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 alongside applied scientific discipline as well as associated software
• how confident they are that they tin empathise as well as purpose them properly

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

Testing your digital quotient 

Did yous know your digital quotient tin last measured? This is a technical term for how tech savvy yous are.

Did yous know that:

• 6-7 twelvemonth olds bring an average DQ (digital quotient) score of 98 (if exposed to novel applied scientific discipline as well as its uses), 
• 45 as well as 49 twelvemonth olds score an average of 96. (Think near 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 alongside historic menstruation after fifteen as well as after historic menstruation 45 it is below average.
• more than 60% of people aged 55 as well as over bring a below average 'DQ' score

However this is all to produce alongside the amount of applied scientific discipline nosotros are exposed to, how often nosotros purpose it ("use it or lose it"), how difficult nosotros endeavor to empathise it as well as the amount of assistance nosotros acquire alongside using it.

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

You likewise 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 mortal (e.g. having an effective website as well as presence on social media) doesn't "just happen" if yous are no longer inwards your teens as well as twenties.  You tin devise strategies to improve how tech savvy yous are.

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

So 3 questions:

• How tech savvy are you?  (I dare yous 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 yous are?

More near this on this weblog inwards the coming months..........

Incidentally I highly recommend a read of the OFCOM study if yous desire to see into the time to come inwards damage of how communication inside the fine art marketplace volition change. I'll also come upwards dorsum to this inwards a time to come weblog post.

Link: View Ofcom’s 2014 Communications Market Report

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