Blogs and wikis are two of the most popular online platforms that allows people to share their ideas and thoughts. These two platforms provide very similar functionalists to users, such as post ideas, debate, review and collaborate. Of course, there would be some difference between them. Blogs are own by individuals which mean it only allow blog owner to edit it while others can only view and comment. Unlike blogs, wikis is a great platform to share opinions and collaborate projects. Wiki users could easily access to wikis, they could edit it anytime without permission. According to Wikipedia on Wikis, " Wikis can serve many different purposes both public and private, including knowledge management, note-taking, community websites and intranets." Basically wikis provides a very broad platform for users. Whenever you type something on the search engine, Wikipedia always pops up on the first ten results. If people need to collaborate in blog, I would say they could either share one log in information or one user post a blog and others leave comments below, then that user can edit the original blog base on the comments. According to article, "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia" by Margaret Locher, wikis allow users to make better solutions and complete the project in a more efficient way.
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Wikipedia on Wikis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Locher, Margaret. "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia." CIO.com. N.p., 17 Apr. 2008. Web. 03 Mar. 2015.
Yes, definitely, blogs are more personal, only blog owner can edit it. For me, I can only comment! LOL. Wikis are more user friendly in terms of collaborating class works or works.
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