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
Collaborative feature of FB Recent news. Discussion board. Upload photos and videos. The wall- a kind of chat board. Creating groups.
MySpace
A group on MySpace (www. 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 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 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)