Blogs v Wikis

The word Blog comes from the words Web Log. It's a Web site that allows an individual, or group of individuals, to share a running log of events and personal insights with online audiences. In simple terms, a Blog is an online journal.

A Wiki is a type of Web page that allows anyone with an Internet connection to create and modify pages easily and quickly. This means that anyone that visits your Wiki will be able to create new pages and update your content whenever they desire. The name wiki comes from the Hawaiian words, which means quick.

As the article states that:’’ Here's an example of how blogs and wikis complement each other. Let's say you have an upcoming release for a software application. You prepare informative release notes. Put the release notes on the wiki, since the release notes will be helpful to users for months to come. But since people don't generally review the list of most recent changes to the wiki, you also post a note on your company blog about the new software update. The blog post is brief just a summary or extract of the information contained in the wiki page”.

If effectively deployed, wikis, blogs and podcasts could offer a way to enhance students', clinicians' and patients' learning experiences, and deepen levels of learners' engagement and collaboration within digital learning environments. As Dr axel Bruns said :  A gradual shift, by contrast, is less noticeable until what’s there today is markedly different from what was there before and only then do we realize that we’ve entered a new era, and that we have to develop new ways of thinking, new ways of conceptualizing the world around us if we want to make good sense of it’’.

I think by having blogs or wikis as co-workers we can Spend less time hunting things down and more time making things happen. Organize the space work, create documents, and discuss everything in one place. Create anything your team needs, meeting notes, product requirements, and knowledge base articles, on the web so everyone can contribute. Give feedback on any Confluence page or file with inline and pinned comments.

Work cited

Dr axel Bruns (http://produsage.org/0 is the author of blogs ,Wikipedia, Scond life ,and beyond :From production to produsage (New York :peter Lang 2008.)

http://idratherbewriting.com/2012/04/19/differences-between-blogs-and-wikis-and-why-you-might-need-both/