Blog #5: Social Media

Blog #5: Social Media

With the addition of Web 2.0 tools and social media applications, the Internet has evolved into a collaborative culture. With Web2.0 social media tools, not only a chosen few experts in the field can create, edit, and publish information that goes out to the public at large. With the use of open source documents and other social media Web2.0 tools, anyone is able to collaborate on projects together. Brainstorming ideas together online, interactively, means that users can create, edit, and revise a document online, at the same time, seeing each others input, while at the same time have the ability to video chat. The ability to talk to each other through video chat or text while working together on a project online adds to the creative process and the continual evolution of that project. What comes out of these brainstorming sessions is a better product. Remember that saying “Two heads are better that one?” Web 2.0 and social media, help bring that saying to life in my opinion.