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