Web 2.0 101 -- Week 2

This week was exciting because it was the major thing I wanted to learn from this course. I have long wanted to establish a wiki for our Library Staff as an online Policies and Procedures Manual. Today I started that with the Table of Contents page, to which I will add sub pages. The content won't be that hard, since is in electronic form on 3 different staff members' computers, and we are all responsible for content in our area.

From my perspective the difference between a blog and a wiki is in intended use. A blog is pretty much straightforward, informal postings and discussion. A wiki is a little bit more permanent document -- a web page that a specified group can use to keep track of what they need to know. A blog is for information, a wiki is to gather information into one place so all users can see it and keep it up to date.

In our case, the wiki will become an informational tool for the library staff. I can see lots of uses, especially as we are drastically downsized and become more wireless. I've added a calendar which I hope will be useful to track each other's time away from the library. I hope to add an information desk schedule. And we can use it for a multi-person project.

My wiki is found at http://mhslibrary.wetpaint.com/