Blogging Practices: An Information-sharing Tool in Business Team Settings

Blogging : An Information Sharing Tool in Business

Introduction

The Internet evolved from the need to transfer information between distant sites by connecting far apart computers and its users . Most of the early users were academicians who share and compare their various research studies with other scholars in other schools . The connections of these computer terminals thru long distance lines (often phone lines that facilitated the sending of information back and forth established the network . The first wide-area network facility developed was the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency ) which connected governmental

and academic computer systems in the US (Abbate , 2000 ) Information sharing therefore is the heart and soul of the Internet

Today , modern society is described as the information age . Today is the era of man-made brainpower industries , or a knowledge-based economy This is not just an information revolution , because we have profoundly shifted our scientific understanding of the world . While the wealthiest people in the world before often owned natural resources : land , golf or oil , wealthiest person in the world in the 20th century is he who controls the knowledge process (i .e . Bill Gates ) For the first time it is now possible to be rich by controlling knowledge , as opposed to natural resources . Information is not only power , information is wealth

The development of the Internet basically pertains to the advances of the different information sharing application tools available in the network . Among the first applications introduced was the E-mail (Electronic mail , which is like the traditional mail (snail...