The Way Todays Web Changes Things
I could say it simply: the Web lets us do lots of stuff for ourselves.
Want me to unpack that a bit?
The Web lets us:
- Start businesses
- Cultivate customers and relationships
- Figure out our finances
- Bill people who owe us loot
- Manage projects
- Collaborate easily
- Find employees or partners
- Tell people about your business skills
- Learn about new things
- Report and communicate
- Buy things
- Sell things
- List things
- Watch things
- (enough with the things already)
You CAN do things a lot more streamlined than before. You don’t need an IT team. You need a nerd. You don’t need millions of dollars. You need day jobs. You don’t need a million customers. You need the right 10,000.
How are you using today’s Web? Are you taking advantage of the fact that YOU are driving? How much has this changed the way you work from five years ago?
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Comments
Awesome. Clear and so accurate. Did you see this post on ZDNet about IT becoming extinct? http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/?p=666
I can’t believe you wrote about this today! One of the projects I’m doing for school is related to how computers and the internet make life easier.
*adds to the “TO FOOTNOTE” list*
Thanks! :)
The Web has certainly changed, well, just about everything. I left my day job at a University a couple of years ago to do private work in social media and prevention … my focus is the convergence point of nonprofits, government and community coalitions. The web allows me to meet and get to know people; to collaboratively develop stuff (grin); participate in thoughtful discussions and communities of practice; and best of all, help others find their way along the social media path. The biggest obstacle to collaboration among the three … firewalls, fear and restrictive web policies.
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One of the really useful things I have found on the web is the Google Custom Search Engine. I am the content director for a Jewish History website (http://cojs.org/cojswiki/index.php?title=Main_Page) and have also created a custom search engine which searches only serious Judaic Studies websites. So you don’t get irrelevant or bad information, and your results are much more focused. It’s free, easy and a great service of users of a content-driven site.
My custom search engine is at http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012998926344705325805%3Adeclwpmzb2m