Transcript Collaborating via Social networks and Groupware

Collaborating via Social networks
and Groupware
Social networks
• Grouping of individuals to specific group.
• It’s used to share the information,
experiences, events, ideas, activities
Developing friendship, finding employment
etc.
• social network services are web-based and
provide means for users to interact over the
Internet, such as e-mail and instant
messaging.
Social networking Sites
•Facebook
•My Space
FaceBook
Collaborative feature of FB
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Recent news.
Discussion board.
Upload photos and videos.
The wall- a kind of chat board.
Creating groups.
MySpace
• A group on MySpace (www.myspace.com) is
even more limited in functionality
than what you can find on Facebook;
• There’s no file uploading, although members
can upload group photos.
Other Web groups
• Google Groups.
• Yahoo! Groups.
• file-uploading and -sharing options.
Evaluating Online groupware
• It is a collection of web-based collaborative
tools that help your team members not
manage their group projects.
• This type of solution is commonly known as
groupware, and when it’s based in the cloud
it’s called online groupware.
Features
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File and document uploading and sharing
Web calendar
Task/project manager
Message boards
Text-based chat rooms / instant messaging
Wiki-like collaborative pages
Blogs.
Popular online groupware applications
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AirSet ( www.airset.com)
Contact office ( www.contactoffice.com)
Google sites (sites.google.com)
Huddle (www.hubble.net)
Nexo (www.nexo.com)
Openteams (www.openteams.com)
Teamspace (www.teamspace.com)