1. Collaborating via Social networks and Groupware

2. 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 and instant messaging.

3. Social networking Sites
Facebook
My Space

4. FaceBook

5. Collaborative feature of FB
Recent news.
Discussion board.
Upload photos and videos.
The wall- a kind of chat board.
Creating groups.

6. MySpace

7. A group on MySpace (www. myspace
A group on MySpace ( is even more limited in functionality
than what you can find on Facebook;
There’s no file uploading, although members can upload group photos.

8. Other Web groups Google Groups. Yahoo! Groups.
file-uploading and -sharing options.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Popular online groupware applications
AirSet (
Contact office (
Google sites (sites.google.com)
Huddle (
Nexo (
Openteams (
Teamspace (