A Web 2.0 Employment Network
Steve Delaney
www.linkedin.com/in/sjdelaney
I started this as a means of participating in the great exchange of ideas that have been taking hold of the internet since 2004.
I must admit that for the first time in many years I am excited about the future of IT. I mean this web 2.0 stuff is really cool. So cool I'm afraid to ask about 3.0 until I get my mind around these things called mashups and everything that goes with them.
I can see that web 2.0 is going to change the world as we know it - it already has. And being a technology change agent (a campaigner on behalf of the creators of which I'm not one) is pretty much what I like to be. I can get passionate about these things - but I admit it's been a while.
Also, I see no place in the global corporate economy that will be more impacted - or needs it so badly - as workforce management (employment; human resources; personnel management). Sig Sigma, ITIL, CMMI, and PMO combined, will not impact Human Resources as much as LinkedIn and facebook. Most people don't get it yet. And when they do, hot dang, they won't be able to contain it. They'll be able to replicate it, but it'll take 'em ten years to control it.
It all kind of reminds me of the eighties.
-sd
I started this as a means of participating in the great exchange of ideas that have been taking hold of the internet since 2004.
I must admit that for the first time in many years I am excited about the future of IT. I mean this web 2.0 stuff is really cool. So cool I'm afraid to ask about 3.0 until I get my mind around these things called mashups and everything that goes with them.
I can see that web 2.0 is going to change the world as we know it - it already has. And being a technology change agent (a campaigner on behalf of the creators of which I'm not one) is pretty much what I like to be. I can get passionate about these things - but I admit it's been a while.
Also, I see no place in the global corporate economy that will be more impacted - or needs it so badly - as workforce management (employment; human resources; personnel management). Sig Sigma, ITIL, CMMI, and PMO combined, will not impact Human Resources as much as LinkedIn and facebook. Most people don't get it yet. And when they do, hot dang, they won't be able to contain it. They'll be able to replicate it, but it'll take 'em ten years to control it.
It all kind of reminds me of the eighties.
-sd
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Permalink Reply by Wendy Belancourt, CPRW on -
Steve,
I couldn't agree with you more that this is quite an exciting evolutionary time on the web. I have been a LinkedIn member since it was a beta baby and teach my clients how to effectively use it for job searching. It seems like overnight I all of a sudden became an old fogey on this frontier as it has exploded into an amazing spider web that I'm not sure how to navigate.
I would appreciate insight to this new phenomena or direction to online articles I can read. What exactly is Web 2.0? What are tags? What do you use them for? Why do so many blogs have little symbols such as "diggthis" you can click and what the heck do they do? Again, I'm feeling creeky and very un-with-it.
Ziff Davis published a story in their "Innovations" e-zine today called, "Web 2.0 Security Fears Deserve Attention" which points out some security risks everyone will want to review. Read the article here: http://innovations.ziffdavisenterprise.com/2007/11/web_20_security_... and share your thoughts. How can we enjoy this brand new communications tool and still protect ourselves?
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