Blogs and wikis are online collaboration tools that have various business and education uses. Blogs are frequently updated websites that allow individuals to share information in a personal tone. Wikis enable collaborative editing and sharing of information across multiple pages in a more objective tone. As technologies like blogs and wikis became easier to use with little technical knowledge required, interest grew from teachers, educational institutions, and businesses. These tools are now seen as part of the shift to more collaborative and social uses of the web, and will likely continue to be adopted for more communication and collaboration purposes going forward.

1. Blogs & Wikis: Business & Education Uses Dr. Joan Vinall-Cox

2. Business Wikis Education Blogs

3. Definitions Communications Overview Uses Future

4. What is a Wiki? Online collaboration tool Create websites Open editing / creating (Sometimes only to defined users) “ Wiki wiki” means “quickly” in Hawaiian

5. Wikipedia - example

6. http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/gems/umlaut.html

7. Media Possibilities Text Links Attachments Documents Images Audio Video

8. What is a Blog? Web Log weBLOG Frequently updated website Little or no technical knowledge Personal tone Variety of styles Many topics

9. Blog - Example

10. Media Possibilities Text Links Attachments Documents Images Audio Video

11. Blogs Time-sequenced Chronological Discuss & Inform Single page Informal in tone Wikis Iterative Collaborative Inform & Share Multiple pages Objective in tone

12. The Early Web 1989 - late nineties technical interface

13. HTML FTP

14. The Web as a Medium One-way

15. Precursors to Web 2.0 email chat P2P

16. Technical Innovations WYSIWYG Little or No Coding Forms Pre-built apps

17. The Read-Write Web The Social Web

18. Interest Builds Teachers Educational businesses Businesses at many levels

19. Web 2.0

20. The Power of the Web Life Insurance Costs Drop Precipitously 1996 - Quotesmith

21. From http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/ca.htm

22. Blogging Styles Authentic “Faux”

23. Business & Blogging Management Employees Marketing Information Dissing Dangers

24. Management

25. From http://www.socialtext.net/bizblogs/index.cgi

26. From http://blogsurvey.backbonemedia.com/archives/2006/01/83_of_blogging_ceos_have_ghost.html Only 17 % of CEOs write their own blogs

27. from http://theconnectionera.blogspot.com/2005/08/corporate-blogging-and-cio.html Corporate blogging Internal blogs directed at employees cannot be accessed beyond the corporate network. External blogs beyond office workers, allow customers and others to become readers.

28. Connecting with the Public

29. Marketing

30. Infomercial?

31. Information

32. Product Information

33. Content as Loss Leader

34. Gripe Sites

35. Dissing

36. Dangers

37. http://michaelgeist.ca/

38. The Endangered Web Other nets (rigidity of U.S. control of Domain Names) Business deals (Service Providers playing favorites)

39. http://thestar.blogs.com/azerb/

40. Business Wikis http://www.jot.com/wiki/wiki-applications.php

41. A Wiki About Business

42. An Education Business Wiki

43. WYSIWYG Wikis

44. WikiBooks - Open Source Textbooks

45. A Course Wiki http://wri330.wikispaces.com/wri330

46. Wikis for Communication Course Notes Scheduling Sharing class work

47. Wikis for Collaboration A learning community working together to create and share knowledge

48. An Assignment Wiki http://www.umbc.edu/bioclass/biol414/wiki/index.php?page=Group_Wiki_Pages

49. Blogs in Education Communication Sharing experience & ideas Learning Writing as a learning tool

50. RSS Aggregation

51. Central to the Blogsphere

52. Teachers Ask students to blog To explore / discuss To develop written “voice” To create a “learning community”

53. Students Their writing seen by their peers Getting responses to what they write The “quiet” have a chance to be heard

54. Using Blogs & Wikis Wikispaces for course information, communication, and assignment sharing Elgg Community Blog for discussion and file hosting

55. Elgg - A Community Learning Space

56. Blogs Time-sequenced Chronological Discuss & Inform Single page Informal in tone Wikis Iterative Collaborative Inform & Share Multiple pages Objective in tone

57. Blogs & Wikis Web 2.0 Part of the communication revolution business, education, personal easy & effective They will be used Increasingly and for more purposes

58. Thanks for your attention!