It's interesting to follow the posts on the FSA Facebook Group for a number of reasons.
Sometimes posters in the group ask for help on various issues, questions of policy, software, approaches to handling service during the pandemic. Sometimes it's just sharing news, funny stories, etc.
In the last week there was a work issue which seems to have been solved by some software developed by a county employee, which a number of people asked for. Back in the day that sort of thing happened as well. A couple difference from 30-40 years ago:
- the existence of the Facebook group. I don't think we had a formal sharing site before the SCOAP QandA's in the late 80's and Jeff Kerby's BBS around 1990 or so. There's more lateral communication these days as opposed to running things up and down the ladder of the hierarchy.
- the gender of the person creating the solution. In the old days the creators tended to be males (I'm thinking of doing programs for programmable calculators around 1980 and queries for the System/36. I might be wrong on this--it might be I just noticed or remember the men more and/or the female creators were operating in a more informal environment.
I think both differences are good.
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