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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