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The Government Blocks Twitter No It Doesn't - O'Reilly. Geeks Invade Government With Audacious Goals - O'Reilly Rad. Leadership 2.0. I started blogging in 1998—before it was called blogging. I simply posted new articles to my web site, because I noticed that people would come back if the content kept changing.

But it was a hassle. It wasn’t easy to change the content or structure of your site. Everything was fairly static. Photo courtesy of ©iStockphoto.com/mtrommer But in 2002–2003, things began to change. According to Wikipedia, Web 2.0: refers to a perceived second generation of web development and design, that facilitates communication, secure information sharing, interoperability, and collaboration on the World Wide Web. I think that a similar paradigm shift has occurred in our understanding of leadership. Therefore, if leaders are going to be effective with the current generation of Internet-savvy web-users, they must shift their leadership style. Leadership 2.0 embraces change.

Leadership 2.0 represents a quantum leap forward in effectiveness. The irony is that this may not be so new after all. 20 cool Twitter mashups to light up your tweets | News | TechRad. Twitter's appeal is that it can be put to lots of different uses. You get 140 characters to post anything you like to your list of faithful followers. News updates, insightful opinion, banal chat, jokes, journal posts, links and banter - the medium makes them all possible. But mix up all that raw data with other services and you get something else entirely - and there are a whole heap of mashups that do just that. So we've picked the best 20 we could find - from useful tools to daytime distractions.