You can do this on a wiki (with comments) or Google Docs (with comments), but the more robust tools I came across were Traction , Basecamp , and Activities on Lotus Connections . This is important as we are not tied to one technology when contributing to the space. I’m finding tools like IBM’s Activites and Google Wave as the new email/IM/attachments space…where conversations A little while ago I talked about not so much groupware, but a middle space, moreso activityware, where you create an object and invite people to add to it. I

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I have saved a few delicious tags about individuals’ technology configurations if you want to browse with they use. Google Talk sometimes Google Docs has become my primary shared writing and spread sheet space. This is a very messy lump from a technology standpoint. Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use.

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March 1, 2007 Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion. Google

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It’s a 6-month-old presentation that Charlene Li made at SXSW’09, but with Google launching Sidewiki recently, I thought it would be very useful to re-visit the concept of how a social network is going to change. Here’s what the official Google blog says about it: If you’re curious, you can read more on our Google Research I found this while going through Slideshare over the weekend. With Sidewiki, you can write your comments to a post alongside it, and they’ll be ordered according to relevancy, preserved for all time.

The boom in services like MapQuest or Google Maps, or the acquisitions by large Internet companies of Keyhole, GeoTango and Vexcel are proof of users’ growing interest in geographic data and information and spatial navigation. Among all the “geobrowsers” (applications for consulting geospatial data and managing geolocalized information), some of them, such as NASA World Wind, Google Earth or Microsoft Live Local 3D, have taken on great relevance and are used by a huge number of people, as well as the vast proliferation of blogs and websites related to these geobrowsers, e.g. There is also a boom in the development of mapping tools based on “open standards” and “open-data” services such as Geonames, which consist of vast geographic databases available for download under Creative Commons licence that users can edit and expand using a wiki interface.

Reading media blogger Jeff Jarvis ’s book, ‘ What Would Google Do? ‘  8216;  is very interesting and full of great anecdotes, human-level stories and aspirational ideas for technology - but I can’t help feeling the book is a little miss-named; I would suggest that it would have been more accurate to call it ‘ What Would p2p Do? ‘.  new ways of doing things, it’s just the the new ways Jeff describes often have more to do with p2p than Google.  8216;.  (I I mean p2p in the broader sense ) Why? 

We're experimenting with webconferences and I was suggesting to experiment with other tools like a weblog, ning, or a google group. When I saw this video on the free technology for teachers blog with about the use of twitter for educators I was struck by the way they see twitter as THE only tool for educators. Tags: technology introduction twitte I'm working with a learning network in education using a sharepoint platform. It's hard to move from face-to-face meeting to online interaction (for a number of reasons and we're writing a whole paper about the challenges).