Monday, September 26, 2016

Blog v Wiki

Wiki and blogs are similar in that they are both ways of communicating to other people. Blogs are more opinionated than wikis. Wikis are the way to share the information with other people, while blogs are more of another way of to express your own opinion on topics that they want to talk about.



In an article “How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere?” by Kathy E. Gill, she says the Web promised active communities and social networks in early 1900, sharing ideas and shaping new realities. Everyone who wished to be would be a publisher; democratization of information (and, consequently, power) would follow. Indeed, the growth of the Web was nothing short of phenomenal. Blogs have played a role in raising those expectations; thus, blogs have demonstrated influence: the power to affect events. Blogging as Journalism. blogging software opened this form of journalism to nontechnical writers, blogs have exploded on the Web’s landscape. In the process, bloggers are influencing the world outside of the blogosphere, as measured by audience reach, media adoption and political necessity.

on the other hand, an article “How to Build Your Own Wikipedia” by Margaret Locher, she dedicate schoosing a  wiki—a software application that allows groups of users to create, edit and comment on online documents—so that each team member could contribute and access up-to-date information on the project. There are more positives than negatives to using wikis. They don't require a lot of personnel to support them and many of the tools are free. At some companies, end users run their own wikis, without help from IT (and sometimes without IT's knowledge—more on that shortly).  Wikis work best when they're focused narrowly on a specific project or collection of information, as well as on a specific group of users. The software used by Wikipedia is the open-source Media Wiki. Wikis are great tools for helping people to come to consensus quickly, whether about what to put on a meeting agenda or how best to meet customers’ needs.


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