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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.
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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.
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)