Beyond Bandwidth: Web 2.0 Brings Together Strange Bedfellows

I find it interesting that you're writing a blog without an RSS feed, and referencing Web 2.0 services w/o mentioning your username/alias. To me, it appears as though you're writing of services you're not actually using. If you're in Twitter than let us know so we can follow you. Having an RSS feed enables communities to follow your writing so much more conveniently and tag you, share you in Delicious or via our feeders. If you're in Facebook, do you have a 'group' we can become fans of? Are you marketing your publications via these tools because if you are, I cannot find you.

this blog needs an rss feed!

What a great post. Web 2.0 is essential to making the biggest impact in social responsibility. Even this current discussion we're having right now via the web is contributing to a better future. And just as Web 1.0 evolved into 2.0 to help make a better and brighter future for all, so must Capitalism 1.0 evolve into Capitalism 2.0. You see Capitalism 1.0 worked for its time. It's what brought us the industrial revolution and all of the conveniences we enjoy now, but it also brought over consumption in which now we have depleted our resources and brought ruin to the environment. It is time for Capitalism 2.0. I like to think that Capitalism 2.0 is Socially-Strategic Capitalism. That is enlarging the efficiencies and motives of Capitalism 1.0 to a bigger sustainable version of value creation that uses environmental and human sustainability as points of strategic differentiation. I truly believe that this is the key to a healthy future for all of us, and with the help of Web 2.0 more of us than ever before can come together to make it happen.

Will Marre
http://www.thoughtrocket.com

When we talk to constituents about Web 2.0 concepts we are met with a mixture of knowing smiles and blank stares. Those with knowing smiles have have laid hands one or more of the read/write environments that include Wikipedia, LinkedIn, MySpace and a variety of other social networking spaces. The furrowed brows can be found among those who view themselves as the information oppressed. These are the folks who complain about information overload.

Web 2.0 technologies need to be recognized as appliances that enable users install flow restrictors to the fire hose of information they fear. When they can see that these are the means by which they can form or join trusted communities to exchange knowledge that is relevant and useful to their needs adoption will follow.

The Gilbane Group has just published a interesting report on Collaboration and Social Media. Its surveys of major companies showed that early adopters of Web 2.0 technologies like Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Social Networking, and Mashups found them to be very effective in adding value to business and organizational activities.

John Iwaniec
Meetings Collaborative
john@meetingscollaborative.com
http://www.meetingscollaborative.com