Technological Advancements

What technological advancements in communication were discussed in the article?
  1. Email
  2. Voicemail
  3. Instant messaging
  4. Chat
  5. Blogging
  6. Wiki
Choose 2 communication types and compare and contrast them. How could these be used in your workplace?
Wikis and blogs are an essential part of the workplace. They are important because you can communicate with managers and other employees. Wikis are more of a way to share notes, while blogs are more of another way of to express your opinion on topics that they want to talk about. On wikis you can also have different pages on your hobbies, and blogs you can share information by your profile and you can talk about hot topics.
Wikis are very easy to use.   People can put the information you need for a meeting in the Wikispace and you can print it out and use it to help you. The downfall is two people can't make changes at the same time without one person's information getting deleted. Blogs are great if you want to comment on things other people have written about. The downfall is blogs don’t have a spell check. Overall I like wikis better than blogs.
Wikispaces and blogs are similar in that they are both ways of communicating to other people. Blogs are more opinionated than wikis, because wikis are a collaboration of facts by every individual person. Both a part of the new Web 2.0 technology, they facilitate using the Internet. Blogging is more popular and more people are aware of it. Wikispaces are a fairly new concept which leads to not many people knowing about them. A wikispace is more of a discussion than blogging, because blogging is one person's opinion with other's comments on it. Wikispaces are also aimed more toward the "classroom" setting rather than personal home setting
Both Wikis and Blogs are part of the Web 2.0 revolution and allow a user to edit pages and place his or her comments on the Internet. A blog is similar to a journal on the Web. A person can discuss their... [continues]

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