Blogs vs Wikis

Blogs are platforms where individuals share their views about something. In other words, blogs are more like a  personal forum, whereas, wikis are collaborative works done in a group exactly like what we are doing for this project right now. Now a days blogs and wikis both of them are used in businesses. Most of the company blogs that I've read so far are of the non-profits. They allow the users/clients to write comments and give them feedback. In fact, it is also one of the marketing stategies these days. Some of the celebrities use blogs to do some freelance writing and letting their fans comment on their posts. The article, "More on How to Build Your Own Wikipedia", explains how the the company used wiki to get the feedback from each and every member of their team. Moreover, "How To Use Wikis For Business" article discusses about the advantage of using wiki. It says that you could be using Word or Excel to do a project in a team but you have to worry about their versions while sharing the file, but you do not have to worry about that in wiki.

Social Networking: A purposeful of loss of Privacy

Hi all!

Welcome to my blog! As for the term project, I will be doing the research on the loss of privacy of social networking.

Social networking has has grown rapidly over these years. Either it's peosonal or business, it has incorporated in all the platforms. But is it safe to lay out all your information like that on these sites? Employers can easily view your page and change their mind after looking at your page.

Nowadays, businesses do their marketing on facebook and all the other networking sites, and some people are not even aware that the companies can easily pull their information like phone numbers from their site if they do not change their privacy setting. After launching Orkut, Google launched a networking site and called it "google buzz" and they had a lot of privacy issues. People who have emailed in past were able to follow each other and their profiles were open in public. Social networking is fun, cool and interesting- but like everything has it's pros and cons, social networking also has its downsides. Therefore, I am very much excited about this project and expect to learn much out of it.