WEB 2.0 and how it works for you:Sharing information and online promotion.
The concept of Web 2.0 embodies the future of how we use the internet in our daily lives. At IC247 we believe strongly in sharing information and for our contacts to be able to interact with each other and the world in general over the internet.
For us Web 2.0 means not just having a good website but also to have the potential to post information using a variety of different means across as many different sites and platforms as possible and networking interactively with other sources of information.
There are many ways to start getting the benefits of Web 2.0 and some of use them already in our daily lives: Blogging is a great example. If you post Blogs then those Blogs are usually hosted on different sites using RSS feeds. Your Blogs can be accessed by anyone and the words you write and the information you provide is put out onto the world wide web.
Photo sharing and video posting sites are also part of the Web 2.0 world and are great mediums to really get a message out there to not just potential customers for your products but to also let others share your interests and hobbies. We all enjoy watching the amusing videos on YouTube or Dailymotion but have you thought about posting virtual tours of your workplace or interviews with your staff from your own website to these sites?
It's easy and this is the whole point; ease of use and simple steps to get your message out there.
Nowadays, our children, who have grown up in this interactive world, almost always access Wikipedia for their homework assignments or to look up information about a given subject. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia which can be edited by anyone online. Sources need to be cited and validated so that the information provided is factual and of true content worth but again, Wikipedia encompasses the spirit of Web 2.0 wholly and the informative text content, visual aids and subject information available as well as the idea of being able to edit yourself is fantastic.
Open directory projects with website listings being edited by humans are another example of how the internet is changing. Instead of us using the machine and learning from it, we are becoming the machine and we teach the machine as we go on. The original theory and dream for the internet was that it should be a democratic, information providing tool for the human race to evolve and progress through the ability to share and provide information at the click of a button. Web 2.0 is this epitomised!
The possibilities are endless and for us at IC247, the thought of helping to
add information so that we can learn and evolve together is a phenomenal thing. We love the thought of one of our customers providing information about a mountain bike that they sell in England and a kid in Tokyo who is completing a school project about his hobby accessing this information from his PC just really makes us tick!
There are so many buzz words and technical abbreviations; mash ups, Ajax, XML, CSS, RSS, RIA, Javascript, Podcasts, Blogs and so on and so forth that it can sometimes be a bit of a minefield. We at IC247 can make it all simple for you, like it should be!
Why not take a look at some of the following links and videos to get a better idea of what we do and as you watch just think about how you got to this information...
Wikipedia Web 2.0
YouTube Web 2.0
Web 2.0 Techcrunch
..... You got to it by social networking or Web 2.0 methods - in other words by reading this Blog we have posted you were given a link to new information!
You get it?
Come and talk to us on the contact details provided about how we can help you to get your information out there.
The IC247 team
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