Week 7: Wikis

This week is all about wikis and so we set up a FAQ Wiki for the GSU Library. We are going to explore collaborative group work. Our wiki has a page for each of the departments in the library and the idea is to post commonly asked questions along with the answers. The beauty of a wiki is that one person can post the question and someone else can come in and supply the answer.



There is also a good discussion going about the authenticity of the entries in wikis. The fact that some wikis allow anyone to edit with checking the facts raises flags. We are discussing the different ways of limiting who edits the wikis. There are passwords, locking the wiki, and the discussion is continuing.

Week 6 Wrap-up

Well we survived Week 6. There were a few problems with downloading the del.icio.us buttons to the toolbar. For some unknown reason different computers showed different buttons. It was a little confusing, but it got straightened out. There was also a little debate about tags, subject headings and bookmarks.


Tags are subject headings that are assigned by the user. There are popular tags which many people use and there are suggested tags which are recommended by ? I don't know who recommends the suggested tags, are they experts, authorities, I am not sure. I have noticed that many of popular tags are the same as recommended tags.

Week 6: del.icio.us and Technorati

Here is my wrap-up of del.icio.us and Technorati. I use del.icio.us all the time and I am slowly changing all of my Google bookmarks over to del.icio.us. It is easy to use and to share, each tag (subject heading) that you use will have it's own URL and RSS feed. You can share the URL or they can subscribe to the RSS Feed. If you are working on a group project, you can assign a group tag and everyone can pull up all of the websites that you have tagged. You del.icio.us tags are accessible on any computer, anytime, anywhere.

Technorati, well I just don't see the use for it at this time. I claimed my blogs and well that was fun, now what? I will check occasionally to see if it gets any better, but for now I don't plan on doing anything with my account.