Apple Mac OS X Server v10.6 - Manual (Page 13)

Chapter 1 Overview of Wiki Tools 13
Advantage Description
Dynamic Because wiki content can be updated by a large group of people,
it is much more dynamic than a static medium like PDF.
Parallel content creation Multiple people can edit wiki content on different pages
simultaneously.
Cross-reference information It’s easy to link together information within and outside of the wiki.
About Blogs
A blog is like an online journal. Entries are arranged chronologically with the newest
entries listed first.
The blog and the wiki share the same simple editing toolbar and thus share a lot of
the same advantages. The biggest difference between a blog and a wiki is that the
blog has a sense of time, but the wiki doesn’t. In a blog, new content is found more
easily than older content. In a wiki, content is found by need or by navigation, rather
than by time.
Blogs are available for users and groups. Users can edit their own blog as well as group
blogs they have access to.
About Web Calendars
Users and groups can have web calendars. User web calendars let you schedule
private events or send event invitations to other users. Other users can’t see your web
calendar.
A group web calendar is like a hallway calendar—it’s a very visible calendar that
everyone in a group can edit. It’s very good for highlighting important dates. However,
you can’t send invitations through group calendars.
Because the web calendar uses iCal server, all users who have set up their server
account in iCal will have synced calendars. Event changes made in the web calendar
are reflected in iCal, and event changes in iCal are reflected in the web calendar.
If you sync group web calendars, the local iCal version of the calendars are read-only.
Any changes you make to the group web calendars are synced with iCal but you can’t
edit the calendars in iCal.
The web calendar simplifies creating events and sending invitations. Web calendars
don’t allow dependencies, so it’s not good for project management where milestones
often depend on each other. It also doesn’t allow delegates, so you should use iCal if
you want to use delegates.