What Is Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the term for the second generation of web-based communities and hosted services that facilitate collaboration, enhance creativity, and encourage sharing among users. If the original web provided electronic content, then Web 2.0 provides a method to manipulate, jointly create, and repurpose that content. Examples of Web 2.0 platforms are social-networking sites, wikis, RSS feeds, shared documents, podcasting and blogs. These web-based tools have tremendous value for both businesses and higher education. For businesses, they permit access to resources that are not locally available. Within higher education, they change the way that information is both exchanged and manipulated, thereby altering the learning process. As a business incubator, economic development office, and university center, CETES is interested in all uses of Web 2.0 technology.

CETES offers a training course to orient individuals and teams to the power of Web 2.0 technology. See the course overview under the Training tab.