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GroupWare and Collaboration Tools

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GroupWare and Collaboration Tools

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  1. To insert your company logo on this slide • From the Insert Menu • Select “Picture” • Locate your logo file • Click OK • To resize the logo • Click anywhere inside the logo. The boxes that appear outside the logo are known as “resize handles.” • Use these to resize the object. • If you hold down the shift key before using the resize handles, you will maintain the proportions of the object you wish to resize. GroupWare and Collaboration Tools Laura K. Williams Engr 6923 Group 3

  2. Introduction The purpose of this section of our group presentation is to: 1. Discuss Social Software 2. Elaborate on the collaborative work environment – IntraSmart 3. Review the Constructware Case Study

  3. What is Social Software? • Clay Shirky - “Software that supports group communications” • Sunir Shah - “Software that humans create to ease contacting each other”

  4. What is Social Software? (continued) • Stewart Butterfield - “Social software is software that people use to interact with other people, employing some combination of the following five devices:” 1. Identity 2. Presence 3. Relationships 4. Conversations 5. Groups

  5. Social Software Examples • e-mail • IRC - Internet Relay Chat • Weblogs • Wikis • Groove • Online Chess, Cards, and Boardgames

  6. Who’s Who of Social Software? Clay Shirky Bio: • Writer with articles published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review • Consultant for Global Business Network (GBN), Nokia, and the Library of Congress • Part-time Instructor at NYU

  7. Clay Shirky • Dan Gilmour of SiliconValley.comwrites that Clay Shirky is “an acute observer of the technology scene.”

  8. Social Software - Phase One • E-mail • “cc” line • Mailing lists - “SF-Lovers”

  9. Social Software - Phase Two The implementation of the following social software: • Usenet • MUD • MOO LambdaMOO • IRC

  10. Social Software - Phase Three Improving and Utilizing Social Software • Weblogs • Wikis • Groove • Daypop • IntraSmart http://www.mindbridge.com/demo/choose.html#

  11. Technology for Social Software • Required Technology • Servers, CGI Scripts, HTML, Web Browsers • Peer-to-Peer software • Increased Popularity of Social Tools

  12. Case Study on Collaboration • Source: Constructware 2001 Client Impact Study Conducted by inSite!

  13. Future Developments • Decentralization

  14. References • http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/index.cgi?Social%20Software%20Alliance%20Wiki • http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SunirShah • http://www.sylloge.com/sylloge.html • http://www.gbn.org/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=2800 • http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html • http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000899.shtml • http://computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Usenet • http://wrt-rice.syr.edu/vivianstuff/moointro.html • http://www.gotham-city.net/lambdamoo/ • http://www.construction.com/NewsCenter/it/news/02-20020110.asp • http://www.mindbridge.com/demo/choose.html

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