{"id":158,"date":"2010-02-22T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T04:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:58:19","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T05:58:19","slug":"computer-use-in-the-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/computer-use-in-the-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer use in the bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are still misguided souls who believe the percentage of computer literate rural residents is lower than the percentage of urban residents. In actual fact it&#8217;s quite the reverse. Most rural residents are so practical and efficient they will pick the eyes out of anything new and ignore what is time-wasting or unhelpful. There is a typical story of a farming family&#8217;s use of the internet on &#8216;Farm Management 500&#8217;, &#8216;Networking the Nation&#8217;. John Ryan of Yarrawonga got to know a Canadian farmer due to helpful advice he was posting on a harvester website, travelled to Canada and met in person, resulting in some very real benefits for his farming business.<\/p>\n<p>There are numerous benefits in the development of such contacts &#8211; from straight technical advice from people with first-hand experience, through to what is perhaps even more valuable &#8211; shared stories and experiences, with people living a surprisingly similar life though they happen to live in another country. Australia-wide and international rural networking will increase in future &#8211; it is only in its infancy and it will be fascinating to see this professional networking develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are still misguided souls who believe the percentage of computer literate rural residents is lower than the percentage of urban residents. In actual fact it&#8217;s quite the reverse. Most rural residents are so practical and efficient they will pick the eyes out of anything new and ignore what is time-wasting or unhelpful. There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[82,179],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fionalake.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}