Blogs vs. Wikis

Compare and Contrast Blogs and Wikis

- Blogs are web pages usually consisted by short and frequently updated posts. Blogs mostly are arranged in reverse chronological order by time. As the content of the blog, it can be your personal thoughts and experience, including your point of view on current news, food, and anything else you would like to share. Blogs focus on a person's thoughts, no matter how immature and ridiculous it is,personalization is the most important feature of blogs.

- Wikis site generally has a strict common concern and its topic is usually clear and firm. Wiki site's content required highly correlativity. For a Wiki site, personalization is not the most important thing but integrity and sufficiency of the information and authority are the ending targets.

Important on the Importance of Convergence in today's network word.

In today world, converging has played a very important role. With the development of technology, people can easily get together and share their thoughts online. Meanwhile, it is also a good opportunity for all enterprise to develop their business. As an example, " Wal-mart says the Web site helps buyer solicit quick feedback from consumer on the merchandise and shows a softer side of the giant company, which has 5,000 stores, 1.2 million worker and annual sales of $ 400 billion." a better converting mode had provided a better way for the enterprise to gather more information from their client in order to make a suitable change, vice versa. According to Wiki While You Work, "Wikis are very good for a departmental project." With the help of Wiki, People from the group or globe are allowed to collaborated with each other and changed wrong information. It has enhanced the work efficiency. Blog and Wiki as the new era's communication tools have the significant impact on people's life.

How can blogs be used for collaboration and a new use for a wiki

Blogs can use for collaboration in education and share your experiences with someone has the same interest. For example, Teacher can give a topic for the class and student can share their thoughts and idea with classmates. People can create blogs and share their life tips in orders to helping other people to solve some problems and other people also can give you some advice in the same time.

A new way to use Wiki - final review Students can create their own wiki and share with classmates. They can edit and add all the study resources that they have to Wiki to help their classmate to study. In the same time, people can provide better information to you and correct you wrong notes.

Work Cite

- Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write a Blunt and Unfiltered Blog, NY Times, march 3, 2008, p. C1, at:http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/03/business/03walmart.html Wal-Mart Tastemakers.pdf

- Wiki While You Work; The technology popularized by Wikipedia can help companies gather and manage their own collective knowledge. Here's how to get started by Margaret Locher. CIO, May 1, 2008. Vol. 21, Iss. 14. Available at: http://www.cio.com/article/336818/More_on_How_to_Build_Your_Own_Wikipedia More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia _ CIO.pdf