Our goal at TheVirtualHandshake.com is to create the leading resource guide for users of Web 2.0 technologies: blogs, social network sites, virtual communities, relationship capital management software, and so on. Our new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online is the manifesto; this site is the living guide to the industry.

Traditionally the Web (1.0) was simple HTML pages. Web 2.0 is a read AND a write medium. Because Internet literacy is now so widespread, and so many people have become comfortable with virtual interactions, the Web has become a social medium, and Web 2.0 applications take advantage of that evolution.

Consistent with most Web 2.0 applications, this website is designed to be highly interactive.