Mike is talking about Web 2.0. He blogs at miramarmike.co.nz and is on FaceBook.
In the old days ... the Internet was a place to read.
"Web 2.0" was originally a marketing term, by Tim O'Reilly, for a conference. Before the Web was about "reading", but now it is about "reading and writing". Key ideas of Web 2.0:
- harnessing the power of the crowd
- data on an epic scale
- architecture of participation
Some of the technologies for Web 2.0:
- Search ... led by Google, consumers have very high expectations of search within the organization. In some browsers, IT can change the default browser search box to search the Intranet.
- Blogs ... a Web site that is normally authored by one person, and the pages that are shown are usually shown in reverse date order (My comment ... that's what a blog is technically ... but ... it's something much wider socially)
- Wiki ... an editable Website. Some organizations are moving their Intranets to a wiki platform.
- ... Make sure you have a business outcome for your wiki.
- ... Don't have blank pages in your wiki.
- ... Paste the guidelines in the wiki.
- Tagging ... the power of tagging is when individual tags are aggregated into tags clouds ... for an individual, for a group, for the whole community. Sharing what I have tagged gives others a view into someone's world.
Aside: Dorje on Tagging
- Needed to find people who were experts in skills, and what skills are we light in?
- Put in a tag cloud system to identify both of these answers
- ... the size identifies the number of people with certain skills
- ... the color depth identifies the quality rating of staff on those skills
Back to Mike ...
- RSS ... brings it all together
- ... make it easy to subscribe ... to content, to searches, to people
- Profiles about people ... another way to keep it together
- ... get the profile updated from lots of different systems
- ... put up a picture of yourself
- ... list interests ... helps find connections to other people
- the latest poster child ... Twitter
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