Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is crucial in connecting people worldwide. Web has become such an implemented part of our lifestyles, businesses and other organizations have become extremely dependent upon it. If it no longer existed, it have a signfigicant impact to a business's order of operations. When I am web browsing, at times I find myself wanting to cut and paste paragraph snippets, pictures, or whatever I find interesting. My wish would be a sidebar fucntion/space in which I can snag a picture or text, and it stay archived in my browser window. Sometimes I am googling topics from A-Z and I stumble upon a website that I wouldn't necessarily bookmark, but there is specific info that I would want to snag. It would really help with searching topics because at times I forget what I wanted to search. This is the Google age, my friends.

Web 2.0 Wish

I completely agree with Victoria about the pop ups thing, that is really annoying! But other than that, I would have one specific preference for Web 2.0. I'm not sure if this already exists, but it would be nice to have an application that allows you to highlight, make side notes, and type all over a webpage, without changing its original format. I know there is a Wiki function, but I'm not sure if all of this would be included. This is really helpful for online research because online research requires digging up information and extracting it from resources, and this is not as easy as it seems. Also, something I would like to be featured is a paraphrasing tool. In my world, this tool would take any highlighted paragraph and with the click of a "paraphrase button", it would provide another paragraph with the exact meaning of the content, but in a simpler format. This would make online researching a BREEZE, although more cases of plagerism will most likely arise.

My Web 2.0 Wish...

Well there are plenty of tiny, obvious wishes I have for the Internet...like no pop-up ads or that things would load automatically instead of taking 3 minutes and then freezing your computer. Those aside, a wish I had would be for an ultimate analytics application that would tell you who has visited your site, their demographics, what their interests are, how long they viewed each individual page, where they came from. Of course, this takes an extremely painstakingly accuracy that is hard to come by on the web. Working with AB on HM09 web metrics showed me the long and difficult process of tracking people, whether it was matchbacks for the lists we bought or blog metrics. So I wish there was an uber program that could just calculate everything for you. Like Google Analytics...except more relevant, accurate and user-friendly. In the near future, analytics will surely improve but until then, we'll have to tally them up on paper.

My thoughts..

When it comes to Web2.0, there are tons of things that will probably happen within our lifetime that we never thought would happen. That being said, I think it is safe to say that many of our "wishes" will one day be reality. Right now, my wish that I believe can be or will soon be obtainable is tracking what type of people are looking at our website, facebook page, twitter, and for how long. Yes, it is great to know how many times someone searches our name, but if 50% of the time, it is SHM employees, that is not very beneficial. I am not saying that this is the case, but you never know. With facebook, we are able to look at all of our friends, so we can in a way see what type of person they are, whether they are a doctor, or someone that has no relationship to SHM. However, we can't see who looks at the page the most. If there are a few people that look at the page often, I believe it is safe to say they are very interested in SHM.

For now, those are my wishes. Like I said in an earlier post, I think face-to-face video chatting would be an awesome tool, and allow us to really connect with our supporters. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, this has not been implemented into the world of Web2.0 yet.

Web 2.0 Part 2

Thanks everyone, for your thoughts about web 2.0...I think you all made some valuable, and interesting points.

This week, I'm curious to know, if you had one wish that would automatically be granted, relative to web 2.0, what would it be? Would you add a new application? Would you get rid of an existing application? Would you do something that no one has thought of yet?

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Todd

On a side note - Em, Victoria, Sam, Natasha...glad to see your thoughts about organization in the workplace...here's hoping that's the start of a turnaround :->

Maintaining Organizational Integrity

It is important keep your belongings in order, not just here but in LIFE. It is a refelction of your character. It also is a reflection of your mental processes. When I was younger my grandmother used to come in my junky room and say , "Your room is a reflection of how your life is going." Those words always stuck and I have lived by them ever since. (If my gram saw my room she would be proud). Keeping your personal items in order in a professinoal setting, IS what attritbutes to making it professional. At SHM, things are run in a very orderly manner, and all things contained within it must fall in line. Humans by nature are not orderly, and it keeping organized is a habit we must acquire and consciously practice each day.

Guilty by association

Personal organization has been a problem for me since I was young. I clean my room and then I can't find anything for a week so it just gets messy again. This has been the way I am for a very long time now. Coming to college however I think by having a room mate I was forced to become more organized. Not only that when people are walking in and out of your room on a constant basis you don't want them to walk into a mess even if it is "organized." I think that it reflects you and how you present yourself. I know at time it gets busy and I fall prey to this- but things do get messy. I think the other day we all got called out on this and it makes sense: just like I wouldn't want people coming into my room and thinking i'm a slob, we shouldn't let people walking into SHM see our table and assume that the company is a mess! I do subscribe to an organized mess because that's how I function but I realize that it is not all that matters. I think that taking a step back is important, and it helps you reorganize your life and get things in order once again.