Free-form Collaboration: Blogs, Wikis, Web conferencing, and Social networking software

The online version of AIIM E-DOC Magazine has two interesting articles explaining the pros and cons of Free-form Collaboration. This type of software allows people to exchange ideas and information with co-workers, business partners, and customers in a dynamic, open-ended manner. Anyone taking part in the collaboration can post information and respond to what has already been posted. The most common tools are blogs, wikis, Web conferencing, and social networking software.

The article “Free-form Collaboration” by Bob Violino gives you the following examples of Free-form Collaboration;

• Socialtext WorkSpace from Socialtext provides wiki collaboration; team blog publishing; integration with email and instant messaging; advanced search, tagging and organization; and personalized and customizable navigation. It has features for access control and wiki administration, and security, according to Socialtext.
• WebEx Meeting Center from WebEx integrates data, voice, and video within a standard Web browser, enabling organizations to hold meetings over the Internet from virtually anywhere. Users can show PowerPoint presentations, Flash animations, and streaming audio and video, and view and edit documents in real time.
• BEA markets Project Builder, enterprise productivity software that's designed to allow users to quickly create collaborative applications for business problems that usually involve a high degree of ad hoc activities between teams. Users of the software can create applications via a library of page components that connect directly to enterprise data, defining richer and more usable views on that data within new Web applications, according to BEA. The product supports multiple participants.

And the article “Something Wiki This Way Comes” by Jesse Wilkins address the pros and cons of wikis in more detail.

Comments

[Robert]

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[James]

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[bobe_logan]

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[Steve M]

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[Geray]

Excellent Post!

Recently I have been using Yugma for Desktop sharing with my clients.

I used to use Acrobat Connect but it costs $200 per month and I am just fine with $10 with Yugma.

It's free if you do not need to record your sessions.

It works well with skype.

Hope this helps,