Wiki and Blog Development. Blogs and Wiki's are now becoming recognised as valuable business tools; partially because there is little to loose and much to gain.

 

Regardless of their 'web culture' names, these two technologies have strong potential, think email and mobile phones in 1995.

 

A Wiki is a special type of database which works well in many situations. They are especially easy to use and large groups of people can both read and edit the information. Uses are only limited by imagination !

 

Wiki use examples:

 

     
  • + Employees use a Wiki to build up a set of company documents.
  • + Project management collaboration.
  • + Customer knowledge base.
  • + Customer database with technical specifications of a group of products.

 


 

Running a Blog can a good thing for almost any business to do, especially if there is a person or people within the company who like to write.
The idea with a business blog is that by writing what is effect a free online magazine ( usually publishing limited but useful information connected with the core business ), fans of the Blog would also frequent the site, and therefore become potential customers.
Blogs can be either built into a C.M.S. or integrated into a static site. Standalone blogs can also be set up. Article on business blogging here .