Who is My Audience

What are your initial ideas for where you might go in addressing the challenge of creating a resource to influence others and share your knowledge & research based on early readings of  Dervin, Baggio and your beginning readings in Clark?

Who isn't my audience? This is one of my struggles as a site administrator, i.e., constantly vacillating on who my audience is at any given moment in time. I am not saying that I am unable to identify an audience, but rather to point out the inevitable contradictions and/or competing interests when meeting the need of an audience - audience in the single sense. As with any people based industry, needs and wants are both fleeting and fickle. This situation lends itself to a level of unsustainable appeasement and/or inaction/stagnancy that fails to truly address the fundamental needs of our end user. Too much of a bird walk?

Back to the real question with an initial bias first. As openly stated in my research paper and in other areas of my career I always approach the notion of "replication" with caution, whether on the receiving or recommending end of it. Knowing the context of any people based situation is unique per the interplay of infinite human and non-human factors, my "research's influence on others" is terribly limited. This is not to absolve myself of research and new learnings, but rather to constantly reflect on how it "fits" within my social and professional paradigm.

In terms of my eventual resource and how it reflects Baggio, Dervin, and Clark I am initially not versed enough to be able to synthesize anything coherent. That said, finding a way to tell a compelling story through visuals that represents a gap being bridged with end user voice with the goal of improving educator instructional capacity sounds fun.