Analyze the challenges your organization (Albany state University) faces in understanding how to use technology to communicate and how you might address these challenges from the perspective of a learning organization. Get and give feedback on writing in the style of a white paper.

Communication and technology are clearly related, although communication and technology skills exist independently of each other. However, the increasing reliance on technology for communication presents challenges and opportunities that require a thorough understanding of each.

How does your organization rely on technology for communicating? What challenges has this raised for your organization?

What are one or two things you might suggest implementing in order to shift to more of a learning-organization–centered approach to meeting these challenges?

• Whom would you need to involve to assist you in making this change?
• Write a short memo to that person or people, outlining what you propose and why, along with a brief plan for how to implement the idea. Practice writing in the style of a white paper. Use concise, nonjargon language and bulleted lists, with a chart or graph to illustrate your point, referencing the literature with footnotes or endnotes.
• What was it like to write this way? What do you have to work on?