What I think you now know…

1. What I think you now know… • You can talk intelligently, confidently, and with authority with anyone about Web 2.0, social networking • What it is • Where it came from • How it impacts • Lives • Reputations • Businesses • Governments • Span of authority • regulation

2. What I think you now know… • You know about ‘Open Source’ applications. You also know about the meaning and business implications of ‘free’ as it applies to Web 2.0 • Linux • Google • Gmail • Docs • Health • Android and Chrome as an operating system • Apache • Media Wiki

3. What I think you now know… • You know about the various technologies that facilitate social networking. • Blogs • Microblogs and Tweets • Photo Sharing • Google+, Facebook and MySpace • RSS and IM • And, particularly, Wikis

4. What I think you now know… • You can speak authoritatively about what you might use a Wiki for • And then you can tell someone that you were part of creating a wiki from the ground up

5. What I think you now know… • You can discuss how business uses new Web methods and technologies to communicate with its customers, and vice-versa. You can cite winners and losers and explain why. • You can also discuss the phenomenon of ‘crowdsourcing’ and how it offers opportunities and significant threats to businesses • New business models • New competitive pressures for conventional media • I even showed you a legacy product: a newspaper

6. What I think you now know… • You can discuss technologies related to Web 2.0 in context, and tie them together • M-commerce • And related applications • Cloud Computing • New markets • Changing computing structures: Netbooks and Tablets • Content Management Systems • Internet Security Issues and Concerns

7. What I think you now know… • You know about winners, losers, and can identify potential winners and losers in the Web 2.0 world, and can give examples and discussion about how Web 2.0 is changing the business landscape • Sony • Brittanica • Naptster • Wikipedia

8. What I think you now know… • You know about the really big players, and how the Internet is in a ‘mergers and acquisition’ mode. To get rich now, it seems getting bought is the current trend. • Yahoo • Flickr • Del.icio.us • Ebay • Craigslist • Google • Microsoft

9. What I think you now know… • You can discuss how Google is an example of brilliant strategy, excellence. In the same conversation, you can highlight how Google has the possibility of Orwellian danger signs. • Don’t be evil Googleversus • "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”Lord Acton, 1887. • "Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it" William Pitt, Speech to House of Lords, 1770.

10. What I think you now know… • You can talk generally about Internet demographics, who is using social networking, and how an organization could harness some of this potential. • You can also talk about the complexity of ‘getting it right’ the first time, and how a foray into Social Media requires careful thought and respectful dialog

11. What I think you now know… • You can also talk technology as it pertains to Web 2.0 and social networking. • Tablets • Apple versus Windows versus Android versus HP • Smartphones • iPhone4 versus Android versus Blackberry

12. What I think you now know… • And I truly hope you have picked up a habit of keeping an eye on what’s new in technology from various sources. • Its always handy if you are in an IT role to have an intelligent answer to the question: ‘So. What’s new in IT today?’ • ‘So, what do you think about this RIM drama?’

13. What I think you now know… • You know a lot of things now, I think. • And you will prove that to me next Friday from 9:30 to 12:30 in the afternoon in WMC 2301 (our computer labs)… • If you have an Internet connected notebook, please bring it. I don’t think we have a lab computer for everyone (but most)