How many times do you use Google? Once a day? Twice? Every hour?
Google is a life line for many. It provides us information at our fingertips in seconds.
For me personally, I use it multiple times a day. It is my confidence booster, when I'm doubting myself. It is my teacher when I want to learn something new.
Google is the gateway to connecting you to new Web 2.0 platforms. In many cases, when you search for something, inevitably there will be a search result that links to a Web 2.0 platform.
Late last night I was thinking about my next blog post and Google kept coming to mind for knowledge sharing. Granted I know it is not exactly the same as the knowledge sharing activities we are learning about in class, but Google at one point (and arguably still is) a platform for knowledge sharing.
In the beginning, Google's creators, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, had a mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" in 1998. Today, Google searches help facilitate learning and connecting people to the knowledge they seek. On Google's story, they state "the relentless search for better answers continues to be at the core of everything we do." This line speaks to me on a professional level. As a performance improvement designer, the search for better answers is also at the core of what I do. After reading that line, I thought about finding a job at Google!
Today, Google has many enterprises and though searches is still is most popular use, they have created Web 2.0 tools and platforms which aligns more with our class' definition of knowledge sharing.
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