The largest social web tool to hit the Internet is by far the introduction of blogging software. Many companies make use of blogs so that they can promote products, educate their customers, or even provide their employees with a forum on which they can express themselves. Huge companies such as BlueCoat and IBM make use of blogs in these exact scenarios.
If your company is already using a blog, or perhaps you are planning to start one, then integrating the blog with MediaWiki can allow you to display comments made on a WordPress blog into your wiki or allow newly-created wiki pages to appear on the blog.
In order for the following exercises to work, you will need to install WordPress onto your server. The WordPress installation should be in a separate directory, in our example I installed it to www.flosspropopulo.com/blog. The blog and wiki will need to share the same database. As our database already exists, we will continue using the existing wiki database...