Established Web 2.0 Technologies Effectively
Encouraging Active Collaboration
Introduction
For several years now the focus emerging Internet technologies has been on
so-called "Web 2.0" technologies. We would like to explore the
emerging plethora of web-based tools and systems that foster
collaboration, a theme central to Web 2.0. We would like to research the
reasons these technologies are successful (and conversely why some systems
fail to succeed), and analyze the methodologies that make
collaboration so essential to the modern Internet.
Why is this relevent?
The old knowledge management platforms such as personal web page and intranets
will be replaced by multiple forms of group authorship. The future
resides in a more collaborative internet.
Forms of Web 2.0 group authorship:
Wikis
Blogs
Tagging
Group messaging software
Goals of web 2.0 collaborative
technologies:
Allow for sponataneous, knowledge based collaboration
Supplament other forms of communication and knowledge management systems
by capturing releveant experiences and "best practices" (1)
Become an architecture for participation (2)
Characteristics of web 2.0 collaborative
technologies:
Contain a receptive culture that is open to group betterment
Share a common platform that allows for a collaborative infrastructure(1)
There exists some form of management and administration
Implemented by web application that
rival desktop applications
Architecture is based on social software (2)
Users generate content rather than consume it
Open programing interfaces let developers add to a web service
or easily pull data from it
The web, rather than the desktop, is the dominant platform
Images:
Result of a "What is Web 2.0?" brainstorming session at FOO Camp 2005
Sources:
1. "Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration," Andrew P. McAfee,
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/smr/issue/2006/spring/06/
2. "Are you ready for web 2.0?" Ryan Singel,
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69114-0.html
Image sources:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78726435@N00/62381076
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36521959321@N01/44349798