Transcript Chapter 8: Collaborating with Technology

Chapter 8:
Collaborating with Technology
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Learning objectives
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Collaborative technologies
Web 2.0 technologies
Unified communications
Online environments
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Introduction
• ICTs transform collaboration and open
opportunities for interaction
• Virtual environments reproduce some faceto-face aspects and add new features
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Collaborative technologies
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E-mail
• Address book and contact management
• Calendaring and time management
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Discussion forums
• Share information and coordinate activities
• Moderators, posters, and readers
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Instant messaging
• Presence awareness
• Text messaging
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Group decision support
systems
• Face-to-face group meetings
• Anonymous contributions
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Web conferencing
• Live meetings via the Internet
• Can include real-time video, chat, and
presentations
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Interactive video
• Chats for
collaboration
• Telepresence
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Shared workspaces
• Shared documents, lists, and information
• Document library
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Blogs
• Ongoing commentary, images, and links
• Some blogs are personal hobbies, and
others are online magazines
• Organizations use blogs to build knowledge,
and for marketing and communications
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Wikis
• Users add and edit interlinked pages
• Organizations use wikis to centralize
documents and store knowledge
• Wikipedia
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Social networking
• Facebook
• Nodes
• Knowledge sharing
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Microblogging
• Short posts
• Users can "follow" other users
• Twitter
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Virtual worlds
• Graphical environment
• Second Life
• Business conferences and meetings
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Unified communications
• Context indicators
• Universal dashboards
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Psychological
characteristics
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Managing online
impressions
• People form impressions using social
categories
• Miscalculations are common online
• Social media provide photos and ability to
view network
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Group dynamics
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Group norms
Disinhibition
Status equalization
Trust
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Making virtual teams work
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Summary
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Collaborative technologies
Web 2.0 technologies
Unified communications
Online environments
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Mozilla case
• Collaboration for remote workers
• Telepresence robot
• Psychological aspects
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Sun Microsystems case
• Open Work program
• Benefits
• Barriers
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