Why organizations use blogs?

A strong debate still exists on how useful blogs are within organizations. It is noted that for blogs to be effective two issues have to be carefully examined: the first one is technical and the second one is cultural. The blog has to be useful and exactly fulfil the organization role, thus the information provided must be accurate and reliable. Blog developers should provide equal importance to the design and to the content of the blog.
Blogs can be very advantageous for organizations:

1. Consumers, suppliers and the society are in general better informed.
2. Bogs are the perfect space for the society to share ideas with the organization
3. Blogs are a very cheap and efficient way of communication (e.g. In obtaining direct feedback from allover the world)
4. all of the above help to develop strong relationships with customers leading to brand loyalty.

Despite all the advantages, organization may find several disadvantages in using blogs:

1. Blogs are easy to start, but so hard to manage. Following day to day writings is so much time consuming. This will result in outdated blogs reflecting a negative sign on the organization it self.
2. People find it difficult to express their ideas in public and in writing.
3. Since it is available to the public many opinions are expressed and some of them could be inappropriate showing the wrong image of the organization misleading its role and mission.

http://icmusings.blogspot.com/2006/03/future-of-blogs-in-organizations.html

http://archive.websitenotes.com/websitenotes-37-20040823BlogsandBloggingAdvantagesandDisadvantages.html

Potential Disadvantages.

Despite all the advantages wearable computers present to organization, one should know that it also provides a list of disadvantages:

1. Equipment can be heavy: this is a huge problem the army is facing on the battle field. the heaviness of the technology is obliging soldier to move slower
2. Equipment can also be expensive and unaffordable. not only organization must pay for the technology it self but also the cost provided to train its employee to adapt to this new technology.
3. Can be harmful to users (e.g. can cause irritation at heat, or headaches)
4. Since this is a portable to use it has a high risk of being stolen, thus the risk of losing personal data is greater.
5. It has still lots of limitations (e.g. bulkiness and short life battery)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wearable_computer

http://www.scribd.com/doc/12885634/Wearable-Computers

Potential Advantages.

Wearable Computers have many advantages: the most common ones are the following.
=> flexibile
=>makes tasks easier.
=> time saver in addition to efficiency improvement of operations
=> quick to access at any time.
=> allow user to command and execute while doing other activities

Wearable computers provide constant interaction with the users. the device can be incorporated to the user to act like a prosthetic.

This technology is being adopted and recommended in many fields and industries:

• Hospitals (used by surgeons)
• Government ( used by the marines)
• Engineers (when they are out of office)
• Workers ( e.g. mining)
  

http://www.unmediated.org/archives/2004/12/new_wearable_ar.php

http://ittowear.blogspot.com/2008/11/wearable-computers-and-their-business.html

What are they replacing?

Researchers believe that few modifications are still needed to take place on actual wearable computers before having the potential to replace a long list of technologies highly used by our society. this list mainly consists of the following: cell phones, pager, PDA, GPS systems, and MP3 players. It is also important to note that wearable computers have also a strong potential to replace actual computers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DNXLAogM7Q&feature=related

http://business.highbeam.com/435989/article-1G1-80608410/functional-fashion-while-wearable-computer-could-eventually

What are Wearable Computers?

As it’s named, this IT refers to computers that are worn by their users. In another way, a wearable computer is a body-worn or in clothing integrated IT. This technology offers hands- free maneuver completed using speech control. In addition, this technology uses a head or body-mounted display where users can retrieve data without blocking their field of view. The first wearable computer was conceived in 1955.

http://www.wearable-consult.com/index_en.html

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?reload=true&isnumber=15725&arnumber=729523&count=30&index=1