1. National Center for Freight & Infrastructure Research & Education Collaboration in the Cloud Online Tools for Transportation Research AASHTO RAC Annual Meeting July 26-29, 2010 Steve Wagner University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. Collaboration requires efficient communication across time, space, and disparate systems.

3. Cloud computing is web-based and agnostic regarding time, location, and operating system.

4. Systems

5. Cloud computing requires a computer, an Internet connection, and a web browser.

6. Location

7. Applications in the cloud do not care about your location.

8. Time

9. Synchronous

10. Real-time, multi-user editing environments.

11. [Etherpad Screenshot]

12. MeetingWords Collabedit SubEthaEdit PiratePad Gobby Sync.in Google Wave

13. Real-time, multi-user communication environments.

14. [Campfire Screenshot]

15. Echowaves HipChat Mibbit Google Wave

16. Asynchronous

17. Asynchronous, multi-user editing environments for single documents.

18. [Writeboard]

19. Live Documents Zoho Writer Google Docs ThinkFree

20. Asynchronous, multi-user environments for multiple, interlinked documents.

21. [PBWiki]

22. Wetpaint Wikispaces Zoho Wiki Google Sites MediaWiki Backpack

23. Asynchronous, multi-user project collaboration spaces.

24. [Basecamp]

25. Goplan activeCollab Huddle ProjectPier Teamwork PM Staction

26. cfire.wistrans.org/rac2010

27. Thank You.