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Wikipedia and the wiki utopia, revisited

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If Wikipedia can be as good as Britannica, we could replace all our outdated corporate knowledge repositories with wikis. Was that just a collective hallucination caused by too many consultants who drank a lot of the Kool-Aid 2.0? Was Wikipedia just the exception that proved the rule? Image by Octavio Rojas via Flickr.

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BMJ blogs " Blog Archive " Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 or become yesterday's person

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Richard Smith: Get with Web 2.0 The essence of Web 2.0 Most websites are firmly Web 1.0â??a Bmj.com has its Web 2.0 but the only way to really understand Web 2.0, As an evangelist for Web 2.0 because the appearance of Web 2.0 We also begin to see how Web 2.0

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Marketers as Social Evangelists

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. When Web 1.0 first came to prominence, most companies were challenged by how to adapt their traditional business models to take advantage of web technology. While Web 2.0 It is my premise that the full value of Web 2.0 Such is the nature of disruptive innovation.

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Chris Abraham joins Frank Eliason and Shel Holtz on FIR

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Burger King tried some subversive advertising last week that hacked both Google Home and Wikipedia. A pioneer in online social networks and publishing, with a natural facility for anticipating the next big thing, Chris is an Internet analyst, web strategy consultant and adviser to the industries’ leading firms. He specializes in Web 2.0

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Awaiting the Next Horizon–Will the Internet Enforce Social Good?

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. When the Web was first available as a business tool, there were many debates about its value. Along the way, Web 1.0 begat Web 2.0 Populated by pornography, bulletin boards, and chat rooms, there was little to recommend it the business community.

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The Cambrian Explosion and our obsession with “the next big thing”

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Photo credit: Wikipedia. Others will include “the Internet of Things” , or will reduce it to SoLoMo (Social, Local, Mobile), or call it “Smarter Planet” And if you look closely, even Tim O’Reilly’s “What Is Web 2.0?” You’ve heard it before, perhaps with different words.

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Digital Transformation: the need for buzzwords

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As usual, Wikipedia does have a somewhat decent definition for it: Digital transformation refers to the changes associated with the application of digital technology in all aspects of human society. It’s not far-fetching to place Digital Transformation as the latest specimen in the lineage that brought to us terms like Web 2.0