MLA Web 2.0 101 Wk 2 – Wikis vs Blogs
This week in the MLA Web 2.0 course we learned about Wikis. I also learned that the Blog that I set up last week actually had no message. Apparently I did not hit the final post buttons.
I’m going to start by listing some of the ways that we could use RSS feeds in the library – which I thought I had posted last week, but apparently not successfully:
- subscribe to selected news feeds, feeds from other key organizations, to keep up with latest developments
- subscribe to select ToC – perhaps find a way to incorporate these into the manually produced list that I currently produce each week (there were hints on how to do this in the MLA Web 2.0 course)
- encourage other departmental staff to subscribe to RSS feeds
- encourage organization to develop its own RSS feeds, consider how our library could use them.
And, now, on to my assignment for this week – Wikis vs Blogs:
Blogs seem to be more personal, more off the cuff, more on what the individual is thinking. Wikis seem more formal, better for institutions, better for links, better for more complex information, and are much easier to use (for me at least). People can respond to and interact with both forms.
