Step 7: What is the difference between a blog and a wiki? What sort of things might be better suited for a blog and better suited for a wiki?
The neat thing about a blog is its archiving ability. You can look back at a particular month to see what was posted then or what was going on. However, its format is pretty well limited to certain features -- the diary part, the list of links and archives and a few other things you can add over to the side. There is usually a main author on a blog and others can comment.
A wiki is more of a collaborative effort. It is a great way to record and compile information that can be edited. The edits can be tracked. Lots of people can contribute to the wiki on more of an equal footing.
I could use a wiki to handle the following:
online procedure manual like this one -- https://wiki.lib.umn.edu/
online disaster manual
journal table of contents situation instructions
subject pathfinder like this one for business -- http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/bizwiki/index.php/Main_Page
(this one also uses Meebo for chat reference)
I am a solo librarian so in many cases these would just serve as an online way to collect and update the information in one place as opposed to using a Word document. However, it would be a handy way to share procedures and a way for an intern to handle updates easily. Privacy would be a concern.
We did already try doing a wiki to handle an Excel spreadsheet for keeping statistics. PBWiki didl not work, it apparently didn't handle Excel yet. Instead we have used Google Docs. I will keep that in mind as I look at Wet Paint.
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