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Jul. 25, 2006 - That is so Web 2.0

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Thanks to a cartoon on Sandy Mattingly's blog by Hugh MacLeod, I visited MacLeod's Gaping Void blog. Cartoon's on the back of business cards. There's a niche.

A couple of months ago... I started wondering what Web 2.0 meant. Real Living had introduced a Web 2.0 feature for us to use interactively with our clients. I had heard "Web 2.0" but I did not uderstand Web 2.0.... For a time I thought if I waited patiently the universe would explain Web 2.0 to me.

I think it was the Inman Innovator Awards that made me realize I better figure out what Web 2.0 is....Real Living is nominated for an Inman Innovator Award for Most Innovative Web Service category. Lot's of buzz among the nominees and now the finalists re: Web 2.0 on Inman News and on real estate blogs,etc.

Finally I had to Google Web 2.0 and research what Web 2.0 is on my own.

A Tim O'Reilly coined the phrase? A blog is Web 2.0, a personal website was Web 1.0. MySpace.com is Web 2.0 ....Flikr is Web 2.0

From Hugh MacLeod's blog another blog and this one answers more questions about what web 2.0 is alll about: The BbGun Blog - How to rollout a Web 2.0 product.

If I decided to go Web 2.0 I don't even know what product, service... but here's the plan....

"First, drop the last 'e' in your name."

Should I go with 'Mauren' or 'McCab'? I've grown very attached to both e's over the years* and how they help some but not all pronounce my first and last names correctly. How about I drop the "e" some people sometimes ad to "Mo" making it "Moe" (one of the Three Stooges...) that only happens in writing. Spoken it's always been "Mo."

"When you have infrastructure problems, no need to hire an experienced tech when you can hire an evangelist instead."

Hire an evangelist? I don't see what it will do and I hate to mix religion and business but it's worth a try. Maybe Central Ohio's own Rod Parsley is for available?

"Make a _really_ big deal at how young the developr is. This is important–make sure that everyone knows that how this product will kick butt because of the youth of the developer (as compared to the old farts over at …. well, you know.)"

Hire a teen age nerd who I could not understand nor whom could understand me, an '"*old fart"....

I want to be an artist or a writer in my next incarnation but until then I'm just a real estate agent with a blog working for a real estate company that has innovative ideas.

Greed?

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Jul. 25, 2006 - re: That is so Web 2.0

Posted by Bonnie Erickson

Evangelist is now a blog term. You'll love the search results when you "Google it". Either you knew already and were exercising that dry wit of yours, or (for once) I knew something you didn't!

Bonnie

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Jul. 25, 2006 - re: That is so Web 2.0

Posted by Anonymous

As I explained to Bonnie, via email I knew it was a blog term, it was a joke that I would hire a local religious evangelist. I am not changing the spelling of my name, or hiring anyone who thinks I am an "old fart" either. Or any of the other showy facetious things outlined on the BbGun Blog, including a man named Om!!!

Chris Bubney, Richard Nacht (?) etc. are real estate blogging evangelists. They're RealtyBlogging.com I think... that is so Web 2.0!

from RealtyBlogging.com website:

"Thank you for visiting Realty Blogging! A Network of Blogging Evangelists Writing on Effective Real Estate Blogging. Realty Blogging has become the "go to" online destination site for realtors interested in how to effectively use blogs for marketing. Our Expert Panel of bloggers write daily about effective blogging techniques, trends, tips and tools that can be put into practice as agents learn how to efficiently use their blogs. Additionally, Realty Blogging is a site which provides an opportunity for real estate agents unfamiliar with blogs to acquaint themselves with the newest media revolution, for free! Over the past several months, over 200 individual agent blogs have been created on Realty Blogging! "

I guess you could say the Tres Amigos / IC are 'evangelists' as well. The numbers of Bloggers on RT blogs is growing phenomenally! or maybe Hector and the team are the the prophets... minor evangelists? Or Blog midwives... or whatever blogger FFT christened Hector.

Greed, sloth and the other five!

Mauren McCab

Edited by Maureen on July 25, 2006 at 9:14 am

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