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Volume 5 Number 2 Spring 2010<\/h2>\n

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by June Kaminski, RN MSN PhD(c), Editor in Chief <\/em><\/p>\n

Editorial<\/h2>\n

\"\" W<\/span>eb 2.0 has taken the Internet by storm. People of all ages use the new social media capabilities to connect with others, learn, dialogue, and explore. But only a small percentage of nurses and other health professionals utilize Web 2.0 capabilities in their professional or private lives.<\/p>\n

What is Web 2.0?<\/h2>\n

E<\/span>ssentially, Web 2.0 is a concept that shapes the online landscape into a platform for social connection, sharing, dialogue, and multimedia enhanced interaction. The goal? To promote social networking and creativity. It isn’t really a “new” world wide web. Rather, it is a new perspective of how to use the Web to really capitalize on its’ ever-evolving capabilities. With the advent and usability of social software applications like blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video-sharing, community software, and mobile access, the structure and tools for Web 2.0 evolution were born.<\/p>\n

O<\/span>ne of the people credited with the launching of the term, Tim O’Reilly described the history of Web 2.0 as:<\/p>\n

“The concept of “Web 2.0” began with a conference brainstorming session between O’Reilly and MediaLive International. Dale Dougherty, web pioneer and O’Reilly VP, noted that far from having “crashed”, the web was more important than ever, with exciting new applications and sites popping up with surprising regularity. What’s more, the companies that had survived the collapse seemed to have some things in common. Could it be that the dot-com collapse marked some kind of turning point for the web, such that a call to action such as “Web 2.0″ might make sense? We agreed that it did, and so the Web 2.0 Conference was born.” (O’Reilly, 2005, pgh.2). <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Key Principles of Web 2.0<\/h2>\n

T<\/span>im O’Reilly listed important principles that distinguish Web 1.0 (the “old” web) and Web 2.0:<\/p>\n