In today's world, everyone wants a voice. Due to the great tool of the internet, that desire can turn into reality. Whether it is sharing our personal opinion or view on something or if it's to add some factual research we have found to add to a topic discussion, sharing is sharing.
That is where the distinction between Wiki and Blog comes into play. The latter, blogs, is used to give someone the ability to share their own experiences, their opinions and their views on pop culture or niche topics. It is a tremendous tool to gather a good sense of an argument by viewing different perspectives and a great way to understand other peoples POV. For example, in the article "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid" people began to share their experiences of drug deals and fights that happened within a neighborhood. The combination of a few peoples experiences and perspectives led to a drug bust by the police of crack houses. It is also another example of understanding peoples POV, from the outside-in an upper-middle-class student who doesn't understand the neighborhood of crackhouses gets a look into their lives through a blog.
Wiki is also another way of sharing information with the addition of peer to peer editing. For Wiki, the collaboration mostly deals with research and more factual additions to an argument. In blogs, you can simply share your opinion or perspective. However, on a Wiki page, it is generally used to add arguments backed with research and facts that agree or counter the arguments presented on the Wiki page. For example, on Wikipedia comments that aren't backed by a reliable source or aren't relevant to the topic is deleted. The article "An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified" shows an efficient use of Wiki. It showed how the State Department use wiki sites to share information to employees efficiently, in this case, biographies of important people who will attend an important meeting. It shows how vital proper and factual information must be added to the Wikis so the patrons using these Wiki pages as references don't embarrass themselves with lousy information.
Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/business/media/04link.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html
That is where the distinction between Wiki and Blog comes into play. The latter, blogs, is used to give someone the ability to share their own experiences, their opinions and their views on pop culture or niche topics. It is a tremendous tool to gather a good sense of an argument by viewing different perspectives and a great way to understand other peoples POV. For example, in the article "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid" people began to share their experiences of drug deals and fights that happened within a neighborhood. The combination of a few peoples experiences and perspectives led to a drug bust by the police of crack houses. It is also another example of understanding peoples POV, from the outside-in an upper-middle-class student who doesn't understand the neighborhood of crackhouses gets a look into their lives through a blog.
Wiki is also another way of sharing information with the addition of peer to peer editing. For Wiki, the collaboration mostly deals with research and more factual additions to an argument. In blogs, you can simply share your opinion or perspective. However, on a Wiki page, it is generally used to add arguments backed with research and facts that agree or counter the arguments presented on the Wiki page. For example, on Wikipedia comments that aren't backed by a reliable source or aren't relevant to the topic is deleted. The article "An Internal Wiki That’s Not Classified" shows an efficient use of Wiki. It showed how the State Department use wiki sites to share information to employees efficiently, in this case, biographies of important people who will attend an important meeting. It shows how vital proper and factual information must be added to the Wikis so the patrons using these Wiki pages as references don't embarrass themselves with lousy information.
Sources: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/business/media/04link.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/nyregion/26bayridge.html
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