Blogs and Wiki's in WCM8.0 websphere portal

Blogs :- It s a place where you post a solution and ask ideas of others related to that solution. Either you can start a new topic and ask views of others.

Wikis :- Is the place where you can put all information related to a topic and let all authors to have inline editing. By this we can have one wiki as single point of contact for any domain or topic.

1) Blogs :- WCM provides default library for blogs like Web Resource template v7.0, Blog solo v7.0 and Blog v7.0 library.

Adding a blog or blog library to a page

With Editor access to the portal or the portal page, you can add a blog or blog library to a page. Choose a blog to collaborate with your team on a single topic. Choose a blog library to collaborate with your team on multiple topics in a centralized view.

Step 1 :-

1. Create a page for the blog or blog library or open an existing page(Make sure it has full/defered dojo profile).
2. Click the Content tab, then click Communications.
3. Click Blog Library to add a team blog or click Blog to create a single-topic blog.
4. Click Add to page.
5. Provide a name. Then click Add.
6. This action copies the appropriate IBM® Web Content Manager blog template library and places an instance of the web content viewer on the page.

A library with same name is created

 Step 2 :- Create Post to add content. You can click Edit to modify content, delete a post by clicking Delete.

Now try to login with a different user apart from wpadmin and post a comment for previous post.

Now click on Add a comment and then put some comments

Conclusion :- Like this you can create multiple posts inside a blog. There is another option of adding blog library to a page. where we can view list of blog posts .

2) Wikis :-  In wiki's we store multiple content as one repository it contains two libraries . As blogs it has two libraries web resource v7.0 library and wiki library v7.0 library.

Step1 :- Similarly like Blogs add wiki's also to a portal page as given below.

Step2 :- You can click new page and create new pages. Below view is for administrator role he can delete and create new pages. 

Step3 :- For editors we should not provide access to delete . So we need to assign a user group to editor role. 

 Navigate to the library which is created and edit access permissions.

Now edit the role for editor and add Editor group to it.

Click edit and then click on ok button.

Step 4 :- Now login as editor and view the wiki page. You will not have a option to delete a wiki.

Conclusion :- Blogs and wiki's are social portlets readily available for use.