The Difference Between a Blog and a Wiki

Blogs and Wikis both seem to be good for sharing information. I can see blogs being useful for discussions or one person shows. Possibly a problem being stated and then folks involved contributing possible solutions. A committee discussing or conducting a project. I could also see it being useful for one person updating people at a time. I've seen this more in social situations for trips or new babies or family news, but it could also be applied to some business purposes. The main strength I'm seeing with wiki's is for multiple people working a one document at the same time and not having the horror of everyone making different changes and then compiling them to find out that many cancel each other out, etc. It also seems that wikis are better suited to organizing final content--but that might just be my not knowing them well enough yet.

How to use RSS feeds in the library - MLA CE Week 1

I'm fairly sure that some of our patrons who currently get electronic tables of contents by email would probably prefer an RSS feed. At least for the titles that have it available. They would prefer not having email boxes filled with TOC's and are dedicated enough to go scan a reader to get the information when more convenient. Two of the things I just added to my RSS reader are things I currently get in my email box and I'll be glad to read them the other way.

I'd eventually like to share information with our program directors on special new books and videos right when we received them rather than waiting for a quarterly acquisitions list being posted on the intranet. That would be us being the source of the RSS feed, which I haven't a clue how to do, but it would be useful.

Wet Feet

I'm getting my feet wet in Web 2.0 technology. Here's hoping I don't get wet feet.
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