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Subject:RE: wiki vs blog From:"Ed" <hamonwry12 -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"'John Posada'" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>, "'Robert Lauriston'" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:00:03 -0500
>From a pure writing perspective, no. All CMSes have a text box with the
usual toolbars. They all have basic functionality, but get the job done.
If you're talking about implementations, Wordpress, for example, will not
play with Blogspot, Drupal, or anything else. Content's typically stored in
a MySQL database.
-=Ed.
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> Subject: Re: wiki vs blog
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> I'm not asking about wikis or blogs...I'm asking, if a company or a
> department invested in the setup of Word Press, are they going to be
> excluded from working in one of the mediums or the other....does the
> tool just not have a particular feature that is vital to one
> environment and not the other.
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > What do you mean by "from the tool perspective"?
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