Web 2.0 Tools

Web 2.0 tools can be a great asset to almost any one as they can allow you to get out on the web more frequently and more importantly they can allow you to advertise your self to people from all over the world to get your name out there in the community. There are many of these tools that can be used to enhance your personal productivity, these range from wikis through to blogs and social media. Today I will be guiding you through a couple of these and how exactly you can use these to your advantage in order to use the internet in its most efficient way.

So firstly to start of with we will look at wikis. A wiki is a collaborative web page which a group of users edits in order to display and maintain a set of data. This can be extremely beneficial when working within a team environment as no two people have to be in the same place as the whole group can just all look at and collaborate all of there work via the wiki page. One of the most widely known wikis is of course Wikipedia. Although academically Wikipedia is frowned upon it can provide a great base source in order to gather relevant information on a topic. But in saying this as almost anyone is able to edit the information on these pages at times they can be quite inaccurate. 

The second tool that I will be talking about today is Twitter. Twitter is a social media site that allows its users to great a ‘microblog’ with posts under 140 characters. This tool can be incredibly powerful as it allows people to aim there post towards a specific audience by the use of there ‘hash tag’ function. Twitter can be detrimental toward the use of web 2.0 as it allows you to narrow the audience to the people that are actually after what you are posting. For example with my blog (the one you are reading now) I use twitter in order to advertise to the world that my blog is here and available for anyone to come along and find what they are looking for.

The Final Web 2.0 tool in that i will be looking at today is the use of blogs. A blog is one of the most powerful tool that you can use in order to enhance you personal productivity as it allows you to present your self to the world in exactly the way in which you want to be viewed. it also allows you to have a central hub as such in which you pass everything to so people can find you. An example of this is you maybe using your blog to keep people up to  date on the latest gadgets hitting the market, so you could create a link on your twitter and facebook accounts to your blog, you may also put your link on a wiki page saying that you are regularly updating on this information on your blog. 

So yes from this I believe that a blog is the utmost important web 2.0 tool that you could use to sharpen your web presence and most of all your productivity. Although without the other tools supporting it your blog will be completely invisible to everyone searching for it.