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

FaceBook

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.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
)