Blog vs. Wiki

Blogs and Wikis are different but both can be utilized effectively. By making it easier to gather and share information as well as record discussion about a subject, wikis (familiar as the software behind online encyclopedia Wikipedia) can help improve their processes and get projects done faster (Locher). Wikis can be used to collaborate on a topic and allows people to offer their insights and critique very easily. A blog in a sense is more related to an individual instead of a group of people. It is not really meant for people to collaborate on, it's meant for a single user to convey a message or discuss a topic. The Charlotte Observer used a blogging format to report on Hurricane Bonnie in August of 1998, it was the first known use of a blog to cover a breaking story (Gill). In this case it was meant to provide updates on the status of the hurricane and allow people to come to a single place that would then provide resources to help them be informed on the hurricane. In today's networked world convergence is very important. The internet has allowed people from different ends of the world be able to interact and discuss topics. Convergence in the networked world allows people from around the world to discuss different topics and contribute to the same idea; this can be done by creating a Wiki. People want to share their opinions and discuss different issues, providing their insight. Collaborating on a wiki can help people learn about new things and understand different people point of views. A blog can be used for collaboration also, but not in the same sense as a Wiki. A group of people would have to have a single blog account and share it amongst themselves. They can each make their own blog post on the shared blog and other people can comment on those posts or the blogs themselves, but I don't think it provides any real-time collaboration, more of posting and commenting on a certain blog's posts.

Sources:
Wiki While You Work; The technology popularized by Wikipedia can help companies gather and manage their own collective knowledge. Here's how to get started by Margaret Locher. CIO, May 1, 2008. Vol. 21, Iss. 14. 
https://www.cio.com/article/2436789/time-management-productivity/more-on-how-to-build-your-own-wikipedia.html

How Can We Measure the Influence of the Blogosphere? by Kathy E. Gill. Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, May 2004
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxiYXJ1Y2huZXdtZWRpYXxneDozZTliYzM1NjU0ZWQ1NjVi