Blogs Vs. Wikis

Blogs and Wikis are similar to one another in that any person can create one. Blogs are alternative to personal web pages. The blogs are mostly used to publish your own ideas and share them with many people. Blogs have limited collaboration since only the user can post content on his or her page. If you are not the owner of the blog you can post comment on the user's page which is a great thing. Also, the user can post links to different websites and to other person's blog. Blogs can create relationships among readers and the users since people are exposing their own unique perspectives.
Wikis give a better feel of what is meant by the word collaboration. A wiki is web page created by user in where other users can access it, edit or add new content to that page. A wiki integrates three important aspects which are communication, collaboration, and community (Friedman). A wiki is ideal for an entire company or just a department in the fact that every can share their own ideas or suggestions. The truth is like stated in the article How To Use Wikis For Business by Ezra Goodnoe "although wikis have been around for a decade, they're just starting to take off in business."
Blogs can be use for collaboration by sharing your ideas with many people. Right now you as the reader are collaborating by taking your time to read this blog post. One thing you can do, is to post a comment regarding my blog post. I can then write back to you and read your own ideas. We can then create a community among other blog users and create a blog roll. Wikis perform better in this area. A new way that wikis can be use is in the area of medicine research. Doctors can share their approaches on new research regarding rare diseases. Doctors around the world would be converging in a single place which would be a wiki.

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