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2007
Recent eBusiness Wiki Changes
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I’ve been contributing to BYU’s E-business Center Wiki recently. While my contributions may not amount to much, I found it to be rather engaging and strangely fulfilling. Perhaps my knowledge can be of some use to others.
My recent contributions:
- Created the Bluetooth page
- Re-organized the Growth of the Internet page, and added the Current Trends section.
- Updated the stats on the Internet Today page
- Organized the XML page, added brief HTML and XHMTL data, as well as information about DTDs and links to the w3c homepage
- Added a few resources to the Web Analytics Resources page
- Linked Wayne Perry’s Edge Wireless address given on E-Business Day 2004, to the Mobile Phone Networks page
I found contributing to a professional-grade wiki to be an interesting experience when compared to a blog. Wiki’s should be written in a professional voice, leaving out “I”, “we”, and other first-person words. While a blog is really just a narrative and the author has lots of freedom to write as they wish, wikis are a little more restrictive, simply because it’s supposed to be professional grade.
The Wayne Perry address was interesting to watch again. I actually remember attending his speech when he was on campus in 2004. There are some fascinating statistics about cellular wireless technology, where its been, its explosive growth, and where its going, not only in the United States, but globally.
You can also see my notes from class on January 11th at the Web Analytics Blog.
Maybe not “restrictive” but just “different.” The wiki concept is quite flexible. You could write your blog posts as pages in a wiki, for example. The writing style certainly is more particular as you correctly observed.
This is true. My meaning was that it is more restrictive in a “freedom of speech” way =). Because the E-Business wiki is meant for a more professional crowd than my blog, it requires a certain standard of professionalism that my personal blog does not require. That particular comment was more directed towards the amount of journalistic freedom I can excercise on my blog, rather than the capabilities of the various technologies behind them.
You posted early (which was great, by the way!), so some of the other pages might not have been up, but I just added an internal link to another page that Jeff worked on (Wireless). I hope you continue to contribute to the wiki as you learn things and as you have time.