Weblogs, Aggregators, and Wikis in the Org.
An interesting comment I read on Meghan's blog about weblogs, etc. was when she said this "with the rise in new technology, memoes, emails, and meeting are slowly declining." Which I agree with because alot of problems occur with email and some people may want a more reliable source of up-to-date information. A problem with email can be not getting it in time, if you want to get in touch with a co-worker and they don't get you're email that can cause big problems within the company. Elizabeth mentions that "flurries of e-mails creating redundancy making it hard to distinguish signal from noise, and increasing the likelihood that important messages will be obscurred. " Which in other words means that the person will not get the message.
In learning about these limitations of email within organizations you may ask yourself what could could make communication easier? The answer to that would be the new additions in the workplace of "digital tools." These new digital tools are weblogs, aggregators and wikis. I think these additions to organizations are going to help the communication within the organization. Weblogs are a way of giving up-to-date information to the public. In our class we have learned to put what we learn about chapters or other things in our weblogs so that our classmates can see what we think or to help them understand something. Weblogs in general archive and categorize information. This website talks about the use of weblogs for marketing and other things. This website also talks about how weblogs are a place for people to look up information and to communicate to other people.
Aggregators are also good things to have in an organization, they help to give you up-to-date information. Wikipedia has said that a news aggregator "is a piece of software or a remotely hosted service that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats (primarily RSS), finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page," news aggregators help to avoid a "flurry of emails." Everytime I go to my news aggregator webpage I am able to see who has posted something new. It's a very good way to communicate with your peers.
Wikis, if you go to this website tell us that they are "special web sites on which anyone can post material without knowing arcane programming languages. Likewise, anyone can edit them." But, if you wanted to go back and change it you would be able to because everything you add to the webpage is archived. Danielle mentions that "Wikis are a great way to quickly share ideas, which is why they are named wiki, which means “quick” in Hawaiian." They are not only quick to use they are easy, too.
With all this said you can see why and how all the weblogs, aggregators and wikis would be able to impove communication within organizations. They are much more efficent than emails in receiving information from co-workers right away and without distraction.
In learning about these limitations of email within organizations you may ask yourself what could could make communication easier? The answer to that would be the new additions in the workplace of "digital tools." These new digital tools are weblogs, aggregators and wikis. I think these additions to organizations are going to help the communication within the organization. Weblogs are a way of giving up-to-date information to the public. In our class we have learned to put what we learn about chapters or other things in our weblogs so that our classmates can see what we think or to help them understand something. Weblogs in general archive and categorize information. This website talks about the use of weblogs for marketing and other things. This website also talks about how weblogs are a place for people to look up information and to communicate to other people.
Aggregators are also good things to have in an organization, they help to give you up-to-date information. Wikipedia has said that a news aggregator "is a piece of software or a remotely hosted service that periodically reads a set of news sources, in one of several XML-based formats (primarily RSS), finds the new bits, and displays them in reverse-chronological order on a single page," news aggregators help to avoid a "flurry of emails." Everytime I go to my news aggregator webpage I am able to see who has posted something new. It's a very good way to communicate with your peers.
Wikis, if you go to this website tell us that they are "special web sites on which anyone can post material without knowing arcane programming languages. Likewise, anyone can edit them." But, if you wanted to go back and change it you would be able to because everything you add to the webpage is archived. Danielle mentions that "Wikis are a great way to quickly share ideas, which is why they are named wiki, which means “quick” in Hawaiian." They are not only quick to use they are easy, too.
With all this said you can see why and how all the weblogs, aggregators and wikis would be able to impove communication within organizations. They are much more efficent than emails in receiving information from co-workers right away and without distraction.
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