Virtual Handshake Blog Review
by Paul Flyer
We are all part of a virtual community whether we know it or not. By simply having a website, every webmaster is part of THE online community. We are now part of the Web 2.0 age where connecting to each other online is becoming more and more the standard and practice.
The Virtual Handshake is a site about social networking software. The site is essentially a means to continue the discussion started in their book: The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online. The site offers continuing insight and advice on how to connect in the virtual world. Their insights are not only for internet marketers or business people. Anyone interested in the way the Web shapes our culture and our world can benefit from their knowledge.
While there are a wide variety of resources on the site, but the point of this post is to point people to their blog. The Virtual Handshake blog offers the following information:
- Ongoing discussion about their book
- Posts about social networking software
- Reviews and critiques of sites that use social networking software
- Insights into Internet Marketing in the Web 2.0 age
- Interviews with those shaping the Web 2.0 world
The web is a powerful resource to connect to other people. While we hear on the news about the downside of such “connectability” in the form of spam (email and comment), hackers, and stalkers, all of which makes us paranoid about internet security and privacy, we forget about the other side of the coin. The web does indeed have the potential to allow people to expand their horizons, make new business connections, and have a voice in any of a variety of narrow or broad online communities. For example, this blog is a “voice” in the web tool “community”. Albeit a small voice, in its humble beginnings I have seen an impact on a number of users and software makers. It is really quite incredible.
Check out the Virtual Handshake and see how the web can not only expand the horizons of business, but expand the horizons of each individual. Get ready to connect!
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