Harnessing Web 2.0 Technologies to Develop your own Online Community.
diane | April 23, 2009Online communities present a magnificent opportunity to promote your group, company or organization. Soflex Online.com specializes in creating online communities, and we hope our WikiZine will help you take your dreams to the next level. These days user created content for the Web is creating terrific opportunities for collaboration, public relations and building a deeper more meaningful brand and experience for your users.
The Web is providing a richer experience for all of us these days, as millions of people gather together and share their ideas through their own personal blogs, Wikipedia, Podcasts, Twitter, Flicker, YouTube, Linkedin, Facebook, My Space, Wikis, Moodle Online Learning, and countless other bustling centers of information. Social media on the Web is exploding with a vast diversity of subject matter and is bringing new ideas to individuals faster than ever before. We all are learning and experiencing exponentially as our collective efforts provide fruitful inspiration, or just provide a welcome relief of humor or joy in these harsh economic times.
For example, what person hasn’t been touched by the incredible video of Susan Boyle on You-Tube? Literally in one week’s time she’s touched the lives of millions of viewers around the world on You-Tube. This is far more people than actually were able to see the initial broadcast in Britian. Her voice literally filled the Web on an international scale. She lifted spirits, even pulled tears of amazement from many, and had a great emotional impact on all of us. This shows the power of user-created content. Sound, written words, and video can be shared at lightning speed from anywhere in the world by anyone who embraces the technology.
Sheer brilliance can be shared on an exponential basis by visiting Websites such as TED.com. Magnificient people who are at the top of their fields, provide stimulating and thought provoking videos on the site. Videos can be freely embedded from that Website to your own. What a terrific idea if you are wanting to expand on a certain subject that your group or company is working on.