IS for Collaboration
Collaboration
Two or more people working together toward common goal, result or product
Teams uses IS to facilitate collaboration
Dimensions of collaboration
o People skills
o Project nature
Team use of IS to Communicate
To achieve common goals
o Teams communicate
Meeting (face-to-face)
Verbal
Written
IS facilitate communications
IS Support for Written Communications
Email
o Electronic mail
o Internet based on SMTP
o MS Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail
Instant
o Real time communications
o Test messages over the internet (cell phones)
o Yahoo! Messenger, Skype, Facebook, MySpace, Live Messenger
Blogs
o Web log
o Entries typically displayed in reverse chronological order
o Based on a topic – to allow comments
o Combines text, images and links
o Blogger, Search, Sun Blog, Twitter (micro-blogging)
Wiki
o Software that allows users to easily create, edit and link web pages
o Used to create collaborative websites
o Used in business to provide affordable and effective knowledge management
o Common knowledge base maintained by users
store and publish group’s knowledge
o Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, WebCT, Wiki
Team Portals o Website publishing team’s activities
o Contains:
Schedules, calendars
Links to websites
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