Tools for Collaborative Working

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1. Slide 1: Tools for Collaborative working Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com
2. Slide 2: Start pages • Create start/home/shared pages – No technical knowledge required – No hosting on your own system – Limited or public access – your choice – Module approach – Change the content in seconds – Wide variety of types of data
3. Slide 3: • Top Links – Handy links all in one place • Search boxes – For all major search engines • Market watch – Up to date on stock quotes etc • Specific searches – From anywhere that carries RSS feeds • Dictionaries • Message boards
4. Slide 4: • Rollyo searches – Subject customised webpages • Google search builder options • RSS feeds • To Do lists • World Time Zones • Examples at http://www.pageflakes.com/Community/Conten • http://www.pageflakes.com/philipbradley.a shx?page=4541261
5. Slide 6: Doing more with weblogs • Weblogs are no longer just collections of postings – they can be proper information repositories • Google gadgets http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open • Widgetbox http://www.widgetbox.com/
6. Slide 9: Zimbio • Create your own portals – No technical knowledge required – Nothing resides on your own servers – Public or private – your choice – Single author or collaborative approach • http://www.zimbio.com/portal/Search+Engine+
7. Slide 10: • Functionality – Add description – Add RSS feeds – Create a group weblog – News search trackers – Top links – Forum/bulletin board – Image trackers – Blog search trackers
8. Slide 11: Wikis • Comparisons at – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_so – http://www.wikimatrix.org/ • Jotspot at http://www.jotspot.com/ – Purchased by Google Oct 2006 – Will be made free – Currently closed for migration
9. Slide 12: • Corporate/intranet – Central Desktop http://www.centraldesktop.com/ – EditMe http://www.editme.com/ – JSPWiki http://www.jspwiki.org/ – MediaWiki http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki – TWiki http://www.twiki.org/
10. Slide 13: Office type collaboration • Slideshows – SlideShare at http://slideshare.net/ – Mine at http://slideshare.net/Philbradley • Comment, tag slideshow presentations • Available on the web • Easy to upload and store • Remember… they are public!
11. Slide 14: Google • Documents and Spreadsheets at http://docs.google.com/ • Use the online editor to format documents, spell- check and more. • Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML or text. • Download documents to your desktop as Word, PDF and more. • View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
12. Slide 15: • Invite others to share your documents by e-mail address. • Edit documents online with whomever you choose. • Publish documents online to the world, or to just who you choose. • Post your documents to your blog.
13. Slide 17: Bookmark collaboration • Furl at http://www.furl.net – Create folders, tag pages, add descriptions, create RSS feeds – Can share the link, not the original document • Del.icio.us at http://www.delicious.com – Add direct from the browser bar – Create network of friends and colleagues – Tag as appropriate for easy location
14. Slide 18: • Squidoo at http://www.squidoo.com – Bookmarks on speed – Easy to create – Module approach – Difficult to allow collaboration • Other options – Chipmark https://www.chipmark.com/Main – Diigo http://www.diigo.com/ – Conversate http://www.conversate.org/
15. Slide 19: Collaborative search engines • Rollyo at http://www.rollyo.com • Yahoo search builder at http://builder.search.yahoo.com/m/promo • PSS! at http://www.pssdir.com/ • Swicki at http://swicki.eurekster.com/ • Google custom search at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/overview – http://tinyurl.com/yf6qbl
16. Slide 20: Miscellaneous • Cl!p at http://cl1p.net/ – Cut and paste to the site, share the data • Create/share maps http://www.frappr.com/ • Plum at http://www.plum.com/ – Collect, share as a blog, feed, album • Grou.ps at http://grou.ps/learn_more.do – Specifically for sharing within specific groups • CiteULike at http://www.citeulike.org/
17. Slide 21: • To do list – http://www.tadalist.com/ • Foldera – http://www.foldera.com/index.htm • Calendars – http://demo.planzo.com/ – http://30boxes.com/
18. Slide 22: Thank you! • My website: http://www.philb.com • My weblog: http://www.philbradley.typepad.com • My ‘I want to’ weblog: • http://philbradley.typepad.com/i_want_to/ • My email: philb@philb.com