Previous to this weekly exercise in wikis I was familiar with wikipeadia but that was the full extent of my knowledge. Now I realise that wikis can have a multitude of uses, appeal to many types of personalities and people. Although I can not see a use for wikis for me personally I do use wikipeadia regularly.
I did join wetpaint to practise the exercise but I would never use it personally. In regards to work there may be a niche for it but I feel that would be in the future as it comes more popular.
Wikis are certainly not something I would use in my personal life either, but professionally I think they could be very useful, particularly across large organisations, like the City of Mandurah, and more locally, Mandurah Libraries.
ReplyDeleteWell Done on completing the Wiki section of the course. You are one step ahead of me in getting into wetpaint. I'm afraid I wasn't able to register for wetpaint for some reason - must go back and try again.
ReplyDeleteHaving worked in a school environment I can see the multitude of benefits of wikis, that is, sharing information resources among peers and the continuous updating up this resource. In a library environment I could see this applied to reference searchs.
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