Convergence definitely impacted our world today. With so many people sharing their stories on social media, it's what helps bring opposite ends together and form commonality among groups. On the other hand, collaboration refers to the cooperation with another person in order to produce something. As people share stories with others, it unintentionally helped with crime fighting. There's an example given by New York Times publisher Michael Wilson in "Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drugs Raid," about how blogging helped police officers solve drug raid cases. Bloggers described their neighborhood surroundings about suspicious drug related activities which cops read about and investigated. Later on it lead to the arrest of several drug dealers. Due to bloggers blogging about reoccurring suspicious drug-related events in their neighborhood, police officials were able to make several arrests and solve the case.
With wikis being so widely used, it's not surprising that wikis might one day evolve into bettering companies. According to "How to Use Wiki for Business" by Ezra Goodnoe, "Wikis can centralize all types of corporate data, such as spreadsheets, Word documents, PowerPoint slides, PDFs — anything that can be displayed in a browser." With wiki being able to operate with these types of files, all companies will one day use wiki for collaborate with other businesses and manage or share their business files online. A new way people can use Wiki for is to work on company projects with their co-workers. Since wiki is able to support various file types, the co-workers can all share a file on wiki and edit it together. Wiki's useful functions might one day just impact our world in social networking.
Works Cited
"Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid." New York Times., 26 June. 2008. Web. 29 Sept. 2014 "How To Use Wikis For Business." InformationWeek. N.p., 8 Aug. 2005. Web. 29 Sept. 2014.
Works Cited
"Brooklyn Blog Helps Lead to Drug Raid." New York Times., 26 June. 2008. Web. 29 Sept. 2014 "How To Use Wikis For Business." InformationWeek. N.p., 8 Aug. 2005. Web. 29 Sept. 2014.