Global Collaboration - MIS402 Assignment # 2
Current technological tools that could be used to facilitate global collaboration
–First uses of the Internet.
–Composted primarily of text but can include other mediums (video, audio, etc.).–Mailing list server.
•Intranet - Looks and acts like the Internet–Comprised of information used exclusively within a company–Unavailable to the Internet community as a whole.
•Instant Messaging (IM) – an IP-based instant communication
application.
–Provides convenient communication between
people using computers, cell phones, etc.
–Can be used to check on telecommuting
employees by managers.
•Voice over IP (VoIP) - Method enabling telecommunications
(phone calls) to be transmitted
over an IP based network.
–Skype is a type of VoIP system that
permits users to make free phone calls over the Internet.
–Very useful for communicating with remote
workers.
•Video Teleconferencing - set of interactive telecommunication technologies allowing two
or
more locations to interact via two-way video and audio transmissions
simultaneously.
• Unified
communications (UC)
- an "evolving communications technology architecture which
automates and
unifies all forms of human and device communications in context, and with a
common experience.
•RSS
- refers to a structured file format for porting data from one platform or
information system
to another.
Commonly
used to keep up to date data at hand.
•VPN (Virtual
Private Network) - private data network that leverages the public
telecommunication infrastructure.
–It maintains privacy through the use of a
tunneling protocol and security procedures.
–Very useful for telecommuters.
•File Transfer - consists simply of transferring a copy
of a file from one computer to another on
the Internet.
–File transfer protocol (FTP), the most
common type. Permits transfer of files, of almost any
size, to be sent across a
company or the globe.
•Thomas Friedman argues that collaboration
is the way that small companies can “act big” and
flourish in today’s flat
world.
•Social networking - a web-based service that allows its
members to create a public profile
with their interests and expertise, post
text and pictures and all manner of data, list other users
with whom they share
a connection, and view and communicate openly or privately with their list
of
connections and those made by others within the system (MySpace, Face Book,
etc.).
•Virtual worlds -
computer-based simulated environments intended for its users to inhabit
and
interact via avatars (like Second Life).
•Web logs (Blogs) - 0nline journals that link together
into a very large network of information
sharing.
–Companies use for a variety of
communication purposes.
•Wikis - software that allows users to work
collaboratively to create, edit and link webpages
easily.
•Groupware - software that enables group members to
work together on a project, from
anywhere, by allowing them to simultaneously
access the same files.
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