Web 2.0 for Business and Professional Use

Here are some links to readings to facilitate group projects in Project Three. Wikipedia has a good page on Web 2.0. Also, Google has many Web 2.0 options and services if what is below doesn't pique your interest. Feel free to add new comments with other relevant links.

Content Management Systems, Blogs and Wikis

One of the easiest applications of Web 2.0 is in content management systems (CMS), like this website (drupal), Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, and WordPress. These easy-to-use web interfaces are providing many small businesses and other small entities with a professional web presense.

Those CMS sites allow more intergration for blogs and wikis. Here are a couple articles:

Other Possibilities

A few groups wrote about iPods or eBay. Something related to iPods is podcasts, which is becoming a new kind of marketing and advertising medium. eBay is also offering many entreprenuers a new way to run a business and makes sales. And finally, YouTube is making streaming video even easier and more accessible for more people, including businesses and professionals.