Web 2.0 Opens The Lines of Communication

Connections are at an all time high with all the online social media sites out there, such as Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Squidoo, WordPress, Blogspot, Linkedin, and all the rest.

The Web 2.0 internet is all about connections, engagements, networking, sharing, brainstorming in groups, and relationship forming. Web 2.0 offers what prior people in history, prior to the internet, missed out on, but would have been attracted to. They would have grabbed the opportunity og getting connected, if only they had our technology.

Imagine the world before the internet, and before the computer. Go back in history to the horse and buggy. Most people could only be connected to a few folks within the communnity. Communication was mostly limited to how far they could walk or horse ride in a day. Lifestyles were limited to the immediate surroundings of the neighborhood. As a result of the lack of outward relationship building, people had fewer opportunities, fewer connections with others, fewer intellectual hangouts, fewer ideas.

Web 2.0 has come as an angel giving everyone with internet access the opportunity to get connected with people all over the planet, and to get better connected with others in the same neighborhood.

Web 1.0 provided a library of information, on a one way street, not allowing for reader comments, inputs, feedback or website linking. Web 2.0 opens up communication, and makes the web an interactive tool of communication, where readers reply, and the public can also read and interact. The internet becomes a conversation in real-time with two or multiple users discussing most any subject.

The blog is a piece prepared by the blogger, with the idea that someone will respond, and comment on the blog, and on the blog site itself.

Later, in the Web 2.0 era, came the micro-blog, such as Twitter. Now, the conversation between blogger, and reader continues, but within the character limit of 140 characters to a post. More people can write and read since it is much easier to read 140 characters than several pages worth of a blog post.

You can find me micro-blogging on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/KenFach

Keywords in technology

In technology, keywords are our signals used so others can find us in the vast universe of the internet. When, where, and how we use keywords will be a big factor on who will find our blogs, websites and social media inputs.

We surely want traffic to our blog. We blog thinking that we have something useful to share, and the use of keywords will help our blog to be found more easily in the search engions, such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, and others. A blog platform such as WordPress, will often list categories of topics, and narrow that list down to another list of specific keywords. Keywords are usually listed at the beginning or ending of a blog post, and when a word is clicked on, other related posts can be viewed and read. I use WordPress and like the system of order wwith the categories and keywords. Think of the category as the folder, and the keyword as a document within the folder.

A good strategy for getting higher on the search engion page, and getting more traffic to your blog, website, social media page, is to dedicate one page (or document) to one keyword. Write everything you can about that one keyword, but don’t make it too long, and provide useful content around the keyword to interest readers.

In our internet avtivities, we often are focussed on certain keywords. In our offline communications we use keywords, and in fact, we use very little language out of the entire language universe. We are keyword focussed off and online. I sometime catch myself using words or phrases over and over that I wish I would not use, or that sound dull or ridiculous, but can’t easily reject them. They are my keywords by nature or habit.In blogging technology, keywords are our constantly used tools.

What I have recently done, was to make lists of keywords around more general categories. When I am ready to blog about something, I can go to my keyword lists and pull the word out that I want to use. My only task would then be to use the keyword throughout my blog post in a useful, interested manner that will attract readers and search engion crawlers.

If you have more tips or thought to share about keywords please don’t hesitate to respond with your comments.