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)