Christian Home Based Business and Web 2.0
April 10, 2009 by Catherine Willis
Filed under SEO
There has been much talk recently, both in the IT world and in the media at large, about the new Web-based social collaboration tools collectively labeled ‘Web 2.0. While several savvy companies have picked up on the usefulness of Web 2.0 to expand their Christian home based business opportunities, there are many that fail to see the opportunity presented to them. These new online services, where people and communities collaborate and share information, are known as Web 2.0.
I think the title is a bit overblown but there is some good stuff here relating to information literacy. I think that Wikipedia is a wonderful example of human beings working collaboratively to gather and organize information on almost any topic you can think of. The Internet has made information so readily available to share and consume, that with a little reading, almost anyone can become an expert on any topic.
Most research indicates that Internet use in the United States will rise from its current rates of approximately 85% to 90% by 2009. And because they?re the most visible target, the search engines will bear the brunt of the attack. I did a bit of research on Web 2.0 before I started my Christian home based business opportunity so that I could market it more effectively.
As for shared communities like Kaneva, MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and Xanga (among others) the members often portray themselves as well – not necessarily who they really are. Twitter is no longer just a social network but a tool you simply must integrate into your online schedule. I regularly communicate with colleagues over twitter throughout the day.
Like individuals, businesses will have to give up some of their obsession with confidentiality and privacy in order to make use of these tools. I agree that many Christian home based business opportunities still need to see the tools and the basic ways of using them, no doubt. Our explanations of the effectiveness of new tools needs to be detailed, persuasive, and comparative.
The opportunities afforded by new social tools offer to create new communities of research practice and to foster the sharing of teaching materials. The complicating problem here is that sometimes this definition can include an interest in using web tools. I was also really encouraged by the fact that all of the tools we explored were free (some had ads and/or will have ads, but that’s an okay trade off).
