Archive for the ‘Collaboration’ Category

Trent Batson, Ph.D. at Campus Technology discusses the types of Web 2.0 collaborative technologies his research team employed throughout the life cycle of their project in Research Collaboration in the Ephemera of Web 2.0.

“What technology do researchers use at different phases of the project? With the new options available now and, it seems, each month, we consider all the possibilities. Part of research now is not just the research, but keeping abreast of new collaboration technologies. We all need to be ethnographers.”

From organizers and hosted storage spaces to free online video conferencing, Web Worker Daily comes up with 12 Top, Free Ways to Collaborate Online.

1. FolderShare
2. Google Calendar
3. Plaxo
4. Numerous remote control software applications
5. Yugma
6. Yuguu
7. Gubb
8. Zoho Planner
9. XDrive
10. Sightspeed
11. ooVoo
12. Pinger

Both Tame the Web and Web Worker Daily have coverage of the new Google Apps Team Edition which enables groups of students or co-workers to share and collaborate using:

• Google Docs
• Google Calendar
• Google Talk
• Google Start Page

With team edition, collaborators can:

• Work on the same document together, instead of sorting out changes in attachments
• Share documents and calendars securely with your co-workers/classmates with a click
• Arrange meetings, set schedules, and publish event information.
• Instant message and make PC-to-PC voice calls for free.
• Access it all from any computer, and even from mobile phones
• Find others from your organization who are using Team Edition and invite them to share with you