Communication Tools for Collaboration

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

We outlined our Taxonomy of Collaboration Tools in a earlier post. In this post, we focus on communication tools for collaboration. For each type of communication tool, we offer a brief description of its purpose and a list of such tools.

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Keep it simple on the collaboration tools

Updated on 25 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

This post offers our survey findings on the theme: Keep it simple on the collaboration tools. Three main messages emerged from our survey responses. 1) Complex collaboration is already a significant work activity for many people, and will only grow in importance. 2) Successful collaboration requires mostly the good principles of project management applied to dispersed teams. 3) Keep it simple on the collaboration tools.

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Leveraging Social Networking for Enterprise, but HOW?

Updated on 24 December 2010 by Lokesh Datta

Social networking does not make an effective collaborative team for creating economic value, or does it? Is the enterprise confronted with immovable object versus irresistible force? Is IT going from being a “craft” to being a “technician?” Where does collaboration go from here, in the next decade? Big questions indeed! Well, I got some insights at the SDForum on Collaboration 2.0: Collaboration in the Next Decade.

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