Thursday, May 1, 2008

Wiki Woes

I posted in the previous post that I have been tyring to explain wikis and blogs to people so that they can use them and make them work for them . For example the introduction of the Wire wiki to my family during break. My brother likes it so much it checks it once a week. More or less to dispute facts and post but he likes it. I was pretty confident in my ability to explain a wiki, its functions, and why they were useful. I know Mrs. Donna had to convince some of us because aside from Wikipedia we didn't see the point either. Well last night I was trying to explain wikis (AGAIN!!!!) to my friend who wants to start the dessert business. We went over and over the same info like five times and she still didn't get it. I told her to use pbwiki. Because I am familiar with it I could help her and it was free. She told me "well I want a wiki that only deals with food. their isn't a cookiesandcakeswiki". ARGGHHHHHH! So i said research different ones and when you find some you like you can save it to a site called Del.icio.us. Why did i say that. She just looked at me with this blank stare. I was so frustrated I just left. She didn't understand that you could create any wiki on any site. She felt like" @pbwiki.com" didn't sound right at the end of her wiki name. Needless to say she doesn't have a wiki :)

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