user generated content

Blog Entry - Sat, 2008-05-24 11:12 by jim wilde

A central web 2.0 principle

Students at LIAFA University in Paris partnered with a team at Orange Labs to analyze Flickr (a web 2.0 application) using data from 2006. They produced this paper.

Blog Entry - Mon, 2008-04-28 10:54 by jim wilde

How many times a day does - What do you think - get asked? Who's asking? Your customers, your employees, your suppliers, your kids, your friends, strangers, the media, colleagues. It seems everybody wants to know what you think.

Blog Entry - Sun, 2008-04-20 09:19 by jim wilde

Sorting out social software, community platforms, content management.

Collaborative Tools - Web 2.0 - Social Networking Software - Community Platforms - Social Commerce - Content Management.

Social applications fill in the gaps that traditional business strategies, rigid IT software, and static web sites fail to address.

Blog Entry - Wed, 2006-01-04 16:55 by jim wilde

The meaning of Web 2.0.

What Web 2.0 Means to You By Jim Rapoz

Offers his opinion on Web 2.0... "The next generation of the Web is agnostic and interactive, giving more control to the user through services,lightweight interfaces and hard-to-recreate data sources."

Blog Entry - Mon, 2005-08-15 10:18 by jim wilde

Open Source Leadership as an Organizational Management Style

Open source, like the blogosphere, is a grassroots (bottom up) movement. Try not to let the grassroots lull you into believing that it is about one or two people with an idea or cause.

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Two

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Scenario 3. You have problems - gaps - that your business strategy and IT applications fail to address. Your employees, customers, and stakeholders want to get work done. You need to innovate and help people find solutions.
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