Online Collaboration - Articles Archive
from February 13, 2008 to January 6, 2008

The skills that are highly valued today are not even distantly related to the skills that are developed in our educational prison facilities year after year, week after week, class after class, when students are put into classrooms, disconnected from each other to fill tests, amputated ... read more

"Biology is war, in which only the fiercest survive. Businesses and nations succeed only by defeating and destroying and dominating competition. Politics is about your side winning at all costs." But there is a new narrative that is spreading across and that tells a new story, about ... read more

In this weekly selection of online collaboration tools, instant messaging, how to effectively organize your team by creating projects and assigning tasks , new tool to share any type of file online and a service that allows to write on the same document with others in ... read more

Making Sense of New Technologies and Media is a weekly digest, curated by education, technology and media expert George Siemens and focused on analyzing, reporting and providing thoughtful insight into the use and intelligent application of such new technologies to our everyday lives In this week digest: a) ... read more

As of 2012, Adobe Share is no longer active and it has been replaced by the new Adobe SendNow, which is part of the Acrobat.com suite, a collection of online services intended to help Internet professionals and businesses to collaborate online. Adobe SendNow is still free ... read more

Instant message with your team, share audio, video and photos, create a chatroom with no computer programming knowledge or to turn your PC into a file sharing service, are a few of the interesting online collaboration tools and web services I have selected this week for ... read more

Helping others see what you are talking about can be a powerful communication advantage, and understanding how visuals and images work can make all of the difference in the world in achieving it. This and many others interesting insights, at the convergence point of media, technology, ... read more

Need to collaborate online more and better? In this weekly selection of online collaboration tools there are some great (free) tools you really can't miss: whether you want to create a free video conferencing room, instant message your working team using a dedicated IM, share huge ... read more

How do great ideas spread and become "influencers" for those who are exposed to them? How can you involve yourself in deciding how to get our children educated? Are online learning tutorials a trend that is going to grow? How are future classrooms going to look ... read more

In the near future, the value of your free online content is going to be challenged over and over again. And to the few scrapers that now copy and re-syndicate your content as if it was theirs, you will need to add remixers, automated scripts and ... read more

Video conferencing, instant messaging and real-time file-sharing and collaboration. These the three online collaboration areas for which I have some new tools to have you test out. You can have video conferences with up to ten people, instant message your team members right from within Firefox ... read more

Do you really know how Google performs its search "magic" and how it weighs your site inside search results? Are video tutorials the next wave? Is social networking going to be as relevant and impactful also inside the education universe? On these, and other more interesting technology-related ... read more

When communicating inside a virtual distributed team, things are not as clear and evident as when you operate in traditional physical environments. Virtual teams are somewhat more sensitive to bad or improper use of communication tools and methods as such teams pivot their key abilities specifically ... read more

In this new selection of online collaboration tools I have selected for you a set of cool tools. If you need to share your screen with a remote colleague with max ease and at zero cost, if you want to call via the Internet using VoIP ... read more

In the near future, are you going to interact with computers without using a keyboard and mouse? Do you know you can get into the video publishing frenzy with just a cool $120 camcorder? How about mobile phone projectors, have you yet seen one of these? ... read more

Find out in less than 3 minutes what online photo sharing is all about. Lee and Sachi Lefever have done it again as they have just published a new short and cool video clip explaining to the non-tech crowd what online photo sharing is, why you'd ... read more

What makes great teams be such? Is it a matter of coincidental matters that some teams perform systematically above average or being a high performance team is due to specific traits of those that make the team up? Ken Thompson, with whom I have co-authored the Bioteaming ... read more

If you thought remote computer support has to be something slow, frustrating and doable only with tech-savvy users, think again. I am very happy to be the first site to announce that Citrix, the company behind the highly successful GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar and GoToMyPC (first reviewed in ... read more

Collaboration tools is going to soon become a misnomer. The more mainstream, standard office applications and productivity tools start adding collaboration facilities to their apps the more collaboration will become part of what is expected by any digital work tool. This Sharewood Picnic contains a new collection ... read more