Notes on "An Introduction to Web 2.0" (Mike Riversdale)

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