SWOT Analysis : Blogs and Blogging

Strengths	Weaknesses
- visitors can give comments/feedback or opinions under each article creating a sense of community/teamwork -provides the opportunity to learn about responsibilities of publishing and assessing reliability and ethics of other online sources - can also be a positive way to receive feedback - focuses on content as posting an article is almost effortless - informs everyone - develops stronger relationships - a way of sharing knowledge - collaboration	- potential security risks - open to public running the risk of damage or corruption to the blog and its data - the need to deal with spam - not all visitors will be nice and helpful. Potential for visitors who are not genuine to visit and spam the blog, just like junk email. - mistakes are live and immediate - offline backups might be required - easy to set up but difficult to maintain therefore may loose focus or interest quickly - better posts requires drafts for posts increasing time required
Opportunities	Threats
- increases the opportunity to share knowledge - collaboration - easy to scaffold - improve writing ability	- spamming - unreliable host - lack of time to blog worthwhile, well thought out post