Applying New Knowledge

I was at work today and my manager asked me to apply a concept that I learned in class to a technology that can be used in the store. I work for a cell phone company so it wasn't that hard. I made up this whole presentation about portable web 2.0 applications. Which, in essence, is just using web 2.0 on your cell phone. I used a PDA to pull up youtube and wikipedia. What makes the whole experience portable is because you can access these applications from anywhere you can take a cell phone. My manager was pretty impressed with my ability to make a really complex topic sound really simple. I pitched my presentation to lots customers and they were able to understand what web 2.o was. At my job we position web 2.o as just Internet access. Now we have a whole pitch that makes it more appealing to the customer. I convinced three customers to add the feature to their phones and they have 30 days to try it out. This reminded me of media convergence. The fact that all these forms of media and technology can be condensed into one device is pretty cool. My manager's request was also quite similar to the activity we did in class were we had to find videos about web 2.0 and its many uses. Im pretty sure if I tried I could apply web 2.0 to any aspect discipline or industry