Tools for Collaborative Working
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This document summarizes various tools for collaborative working without hosting your own servers. It discusses tools for creating start pages, top links, searches, and doing more with weblogs like Google gadgets and Widgetbox. Other tools covered include Zimbio for creating portals, wikis for comparisons, Google Documents for document sharing, bookmark collaboration with Furl and Delicious, and miscellaneous tools like Cl!p for sharing data.
Tools for Collaborative Working
- 1. Tools for Collaborative working Phil Bradley http://www.philb.com
- 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. 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. Rollyo searches Subject customised webpages Google search builder options RSS feeds To Do lists World Time Zones Examples at http://www.pageflakes.com/Community/Content/Flakes.aspx http://www.pageflakes.com/philipbradley.ashx?page=4541261
- 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/
- 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+News+and+Technology
- 10. Functionality Add description Add RSS feeds Create a group weblog News search trackers Top links Forum/bulletin board Image trackers Blog search trackers
- 11. Wikis Comparisons at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software http://www.wikimatrix.org/ Jotspot at http://www.jotspot.com/ Purchased by Google Oct 2006 Will be made free Currently closed for migration
- 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/
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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/
- 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
- 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/
- 21. To do list http://www.tadalist.com/ Foldera http://www.foldera.com/index.htm Calendars http://demo.planzo.com/ http://30boxes.com/
- 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: [email protected]