What is web 2.0 - A definition for the Christian community that are confused by it
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I mentioned the phrase web 2.o and started saying how churches and Christian para-organizations should start to gain advantage from web 2.0. I have had people contact me saying, sound great Steve but what is web 2.0? I apologize for the use of terminology some people will understand the phrase others will not. So for those of you that didn’t.
Briefly, web 2.0 is the next generation of the Internet. The web has evolved and changed over the last decade. Previously the most popular websites for visitors and traffic were the search engines like google, yahoo and msn. People would showcase their websites on these websites to gain traffic.
These are no longer the most popular. The new next generation web 2.0 websites are. Web 2.0 websites allow the users to control the content. Examples of these are like youtube, facebook, myspace and blogger, to name a few.
There are stacks and stacks of them. To make a comparison though, I have put this graph on from Alexa.
As you can, google has pretty much stayed the same over this period, but these other web 2.0 sites are on an upward curve and will eventually take over google.
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Welcome, I always like to share a little about me. My name is Steve Prescott, I am 29 years young, I live in Bolton in the UK. I am the founder and author of igniteyourministry.com.
I have set up this site to share, teach and learn from other online marketers in the Christian world. I have been marketing online for the last decade but only over the last 3 years I have really seen massive growth online in the secular market. More about that shortly, a bit about me first.
I am Steve, I have been a reborn christian for 3 1/2 years now and my life has been turned around. I am now studying at Nazarene Theological College in Manchester, England training to become a Pastor. I am part of a church called Kings Church Bolton and is part of the Assemblies of God denomination.
I have a beautiful daughter called Stephanie whom is 7 this year and is growing into an a brilliant young lady. I have learnt from some of the best online marketers in the business and feel compelled to share what I have learned to the Christian community to build local church, and Christian para-organistaions, which in turn will build the Kingdom of God. Some of this information will be free, other courses will have a cost.
Read the vision statement on how I can help.
Steve has been working in online marketing for the last 10 years. Since becoming a Christian 3 years ago his heart changed from making money to building the Kingdom of God and a vision was birthed to create a series of training courses to aid the church and Christian para-organisations