Collaborating via Social networks and Groupware Social networks

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

Face. Book

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

My. Space

• A group on My. Space (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 • • Air. Set ( 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)