Seriously, though, IBM has documented that it closes its books 3 days faster every quarter because of Sametime. Tags: Instant Messaging Unified Communications Web Conferencin John Del Pizzo from the IBM Sametime team responded to my post - but, I'm not persuaded by the counter-arguments.    Point 1

Although the teams might encounter technological issues with using and running a virtual world, many users cite the sense of presence and being with others as one of the benefits of using the virtual world to conduct the majority of team meetings as opposed to other tools available such as a team wiki, instant messaging, or email. shared work space can add to social presence as well, such as shared documents stored on a shared group website from which team members can work. ...Tags: Surinder and I are currently conducting research on the use of online media such as virtual worlds for education and training.

Collaborative Document Writing: Online Word Processor Puts The Turbo On Comments Features - Coventi Pages Web applications continue to grow in number, offering easy ways to work both on and off-line with your documents and opening up more opportunities for online collaboration. new online word processor promises to bring document editing to the next level, by adding precision commenting features that set it apart from the existing slew of collaborative writing applications out there, and the good news is that it is entirely free. Photo credit: Didier Kobi We

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Enterprise Instant Messaging (IM) Most systems allow instant messages to be logged. People not involved in the instant messaging or group chat session cannot view the content of those communications through the IM client applications. Email can be used for point-to-point communication as well as group communication (through distribution lists or by addressing the message to additional people). Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). It's a great question - my thoughts below:

Originally the types of tools included by the participants in this experiment, ranged from real-time instant messaging and video conferencing tools to the main social bookmarking resources and microblogging tools as several participants felt that these too were relevant collaboration technologies. The official focus is therefore on real-time or near real-time collaborative technologies in the groups that have been already defined. The Key Categories These the online collaboration categories covered in the map with over 150 technologies: VoIP - Instant Messaging

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Today and tomorrow I will be finalizing the reference architecture document below. ???Templates??? The focus on architecture makes templates one of my more favorite documents to work on. this level of detail since the document extends some great work undertaken by danah boyd and Nicole B. Templates??? illustrate infrastructure and act as blueprints organizations can leverage as they make decisions on IT architecture.

It allows people to send messages to individuals or groups, to hold online discussions and to exchange documents and other files. But an e-mail discussion between more than a few people can quickly fill the participants’ in-boxes with a deluge of messages, making the argument hard to follow. Collaborating on a document via e-mail can also be problematic, as different versions start to circulate which must then be reconciled. Skip to main navigation Skip to main content ); Home This weeks print edition Daily news analysis Opinion All opinion Leaders Letters to the Editor Blogs Columns KALs cartoons Correspondents diary Economist debates World politics All world politics Politics this week United States The Americas

Within an enterprise, any type of "Twitter" system will be linked to directory systems in much the same way as e-mail and instant messaging systems are linked via address book synchronization techniques. Within the enterprise, this will be viewed as a messaging system. If you want to consider micro-blogging as a messaging system then I'm fine with that Some good points in this post from Adina Levin (Socialtext). For the most part I agree but we're still in the phase were vendors are hyping the benefits and not being transparent regarding some of the "non-fun" aspects