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Blog vs Wiki


The main difference between a blog and a wiki is who gets to write and publish content. In a wiki anyone can write, edit or change content while in a blog only the admin can write, edit and publish. Other users can only comment in a blog which the admin can monitor. On the other hand, wikis are monitored by admins typically.  As a result of this wiki's are a more collaborative tool since anyone can write on it while blog is controlled by one person exclusively. "Among 311 CIOs who participated in CIO's 2008 Consumer Technology survey in January, 30 percent said they provide wikis as corporate applications." This shows the depth of how wikis are taking over the collaborative corporate environment. Blogs are used more in collaboration than ever before. For example, blogging became so big that the US military had started became wary of it. "Thousands of troops who use blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to communicate with the outside world are not always in tune with the Pentagon’s official voice." Blogging became popular and collaborative that the military is fearing that troops can be sharing unauthorized information or breaking their code of ethics with some of the messages they post in the blogs. Blog and wikis are changing the communication in the world and we must learn to adapt to the new transformational technology.

References:
  • 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
  • "Pentagon Keeps Wary Watch as Troops Blog" By James Dao, The NY Times, September 8, 2009.

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