The difference between blogs and wikis are subtle but crucial in order to perform what each forum was designed to do. Some major differences between wikis and blogs include;
- Blogs are posted by a single entity and can't be changed vs wikis which are posted by many people and have the ability to be changed by outside people (this could make the information inaccurate)
- Since blogs are posted by a single person or group of writers there is no collaboration with the outside world, getting many different views on a subject matter is key in to well written works vs wikis which are all about collaboration, you post something and somebody around the corner or around the world can edit or add to your comment.
- Blogs have suffered recent backlash over sponsored content. This is content that may or may not be genuine from the blog writer which was paid for by an outside company. For example if you have a home improvement blog and you write an article a bout how good Behr paint is because they paid you money to do so vs Wiki which is completely upfront, since it is a work by many people and frequently edited this leaves little to no room for sponsored content. What you see is what you get (for the good or the bad)
There are many more differences however that was to show some major points. Whether you like it or not wikis and blogs are part of new media and thus part of the future. This future will include allot of working together in teams. However, with any new technology you need to be careful. According to the New York Times "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog". They keep watch because as soldiers they are suppose to be the voice of the Pentagon however this is a unique opportunity to for soldiers to give their personal insight, which could be potentially dangerous.
Convergences is extremely important in today’s society. When
working at my internship this summer we used are worldwide team to get the job
done. For example, some information wasn’t available to are Canadian branch so
they assigned me to communicate with that branch of the company to find out and
deliver the information they needed. This is just a single example of the
global workforce working together.
think
communication between branches of are company could have used a wiki in order
to enhance are communications systems. Through email communication some
information could be lost of double stated. However, in a Wiki its like working
on a single piece of paper with a group of people.
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