Last week I started my first blog and this week my first wiki. I’ve had a pretty good grasp of blogs for a while now, but wiki’s were a bit new. I’ve found blogs useful for providing information about current events – informational articles on blogs can be very interesting (depending on the topic… not everyone loves copyright or Notre Dame like your's truly!); however, having a medium to post current happenings and up to the moment information strike me as the greater purposes for blogs.
Though wiki’s are kept current and up to date (updates can be made immediately), I view wikis as more of encyclopedia/reference resources. Where a blog may tell me how my favorite baseball or football player performed over the weekend, a wiki entry would provide me with information on the rules of baseball and football (or biographical information about the players). Speaking of wikis – feel free to give my wiki, Teach the Teacher, a look and let me know what you think!
In the library world I live in, both blogs and wikis are of value to both library staff and patrons. Though I wonder how many patrons read our library’s blog, with the blog our users are kept up to speed on new classes we are offering, changes in our database subscriptions, and the cool new books we’ve purchased. We don’t have a wiki yet, but I’m venturing a guess that it would be of major value as well: our library’s webpags are full of great resources and help information and having all of those materials on a wiki may aid in finding (and better using) our help information.
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