Is Blog a Learning Management System?

According to Wiki's latest description, a blog is a discussion or informational website published on the Internet consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). (resource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog). The tactics aren’t limited to the enterprise, nowadays, any person can write an article, build a fancy blog, and push to general public in receiving Facebook Like "Checker".

In a blog, we often see an individual's viewpoint on specific topics, or his/her record of daily activities, such as Places to Visit. Food to Take, something like that. As such, those articles might be embedded with the characters of randomly composed/distributed, topics may irregular selected, no mandatory motivation for learners to proactively involved. (misspelled word might be vivid, even it is believed that all of the blog writers attempt to prevent) A blog can be viewed by a small portion of people who may be attracted by specific topics. However, his/her learning (not viewing) record will not be classified, no particular business purpose would be developed even fulfilled. With that, the writer of this blog does not think a blog can be classified as a Learning Management System (LMS).

There are some techies or professionals spent time to contribute their understanding on technology into writing and make a blog to be available to the general public. They (those writers) are empowering themselves with sharing, sharing what they know, sharing what they think other people might want to know. It coincides the beauty of Internet, cause we share with the viewers (target audience) and help them to learn, from a specific statements or articles. This is of common strategies and quite a few success cases that this type of blog turns into subscription economy generating corresponding monetary feedback. It is true that type of blog creates a fine resource for the viewer to quickly (1) understand a concept, (2) get a step-by-step (configuration) know how, and (3) may apply to work-related issues and enhance work performance. However, there is no communication among (enterprise) stakeholders, nor the engagement from either LMS administrator or the senior management, in fact, those type of blogs are not a LMS.

There are some LMS in the market nowadays carry the feature of hosting a blog.  For example, in Moodle, under the menu of Site administration > Advanced features, the Admin can build the blog in a timely manner (see below diagram for configuration illustration)

Make it alive is not a technology challenging. The thing whether we are planning to invite all of the learners to (1) write their own blogs in our LMS system, and/or (2) contribute to any of the messages from the course creator/instructor. Would any of the opinions be recognized coming from the owner of this LMS, a corporate or enterprise, most of time. Should there is any undesirable outcome being generated, coming from those blogs, who should be hold responsible and manage any  lawful activities being involved?