blog no wiki

That is definitively not new here. In the past 2 years we’ve seen many article about the migration of computer application to the web and how this one is becoming so collaborative that it is replacing other means of being informed and connected to other people. Wikipedia has a definition :

“… Web 2.0 can refer to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomies — which aim to facilitate creativity, collaboration, and sharing between users.” ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web2.0 )

I guess it all started with the blogs, where people could have their own little journal without being a web designer or an IT. Or well maybe earlier, as I recall Tim Berner-Lee who thought and design the first web, intended it to be right a collaborative one.

Anyway, so I decided to give it a try. Starting first with del.ici.us, then all the Google goodies (gmail, calendar, gtalk, igoogle and what not,) , put this blog on technorati, subscribe to linkedin, twitter, rememberthemilk and finally the most well known of all, facebook. Along the way I may even find others but for now those cover (so I think) the best of the applications the NPOs and NGOs should use and get some benefit from them.

While I’m always fond to try new things, I find difficult to keep up with all those. So the experiment is to come up with something useful for NPOs/NGOs, if not some advice, and also a definition, what is and what is not. The most striking fact is that we need to name it “web 2.0″.