I was having another look through Reader 1 and after posting my initial thoughts I thought I'd share with you my further developed ideas about Web 2.0 and it's tools that will help me (and already apply) with my blogging and my own professional practice.
Firstly after Paula's comment I've been thinking more about how my current ballet company uses social media and Web 2.0 tools. Here is a link to my theatre's facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/vanemuine.
Here you can see they often update it, promoting upcoming shows and concerts held here and what the ballet company and other theatre departments are involved with. They also update their followers on the latest news and whenever there's a premiere photos of the show will be uploaded. You can probably see the current cover photo is promoting our new ballet Raymonda. The company also have a Youtube account where they upload videos and clips from productions. This is quite a useful tool for my own professional practice too as audition videos can be sent as a youtube clip.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kaunitarjakoletis
I managed to embed a video of last seasons Beauty & the Beast (Kaunitar ja Koletis) off of the Vanemuine Ballet youtube page taken from the wings as a small promotional video prior to the premiere. I hope you enjoy!
In O'reilly's 'meme' it talks about RSS technology allowing people to receive notifications when they 'subscribe' to a page. I was wondering if Blogger has something similar? I find I keep going back to the list of blogs to visit other peoples and don't seem to be notified if somebody replies to any comments I make. Does anybody know if you can receive some form of notification? Or do we just keep having to go back to the comment to check? On my network dance profile I often receive emails as a way of telling me when somebody has updated their profile or added pictures etc. This makes networking so much easier.
So many young people these days are glued to TV/laptop/mobile phone screens subsequently because of the wonders of Web 2.0. It is so much easier to communicate and it saves a lot of time, effort and money. People can communicate with more than one person at a time and get replies straight away without spending a penny. However in some ways, although Web 2.0 has solved so many communication problems, has it also created them? Often people don't take as much time to sit down and have a one to one conversation with a friend in person. I know I tend to message people over ringing them now. I always enjoyed receiving post from home when I was away at school but rarely now do I write letters unless I have to. Sometimes its nice to have something to actually hold. Although Web 2.0 without a doubt has changed things for the better, as Melanie Cannon points out... I don't think we should forget those traditional ways of communicating once in a while :)
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