GroupWare and Collaboration Tools

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GroupWare and Collaboration Tools

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• Laura K. Williams
• Engr 6923 Group 3

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Introduction

• The purpose of this section of our group
  presentation is to
• 1. Discuss Social Software
• 2. Elaborate on the collaborative work
  environment IntraSmart
• 3. Review the Constructware Case Study

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What is Social Software?

• Clay Shirky - Software that supports group
  communications
• Sunir Shah - Software that humans create to ease
  contacting each other

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What is Social Software? (continued)

• Stewart Butterfield - Social software is
  software that people use to interact with other
  people, employing some combination of the
  following five devices
  1. Identity
• 2. Presence
• 3. Relationships
• 4. Conversations
• 5. Groups

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Social Software Examples

• e-mail
• IRC - Internet Relay Chat
• Weblogs
• Wikis
• Groove
• Online Chess, Cards, and Boardgames

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Whos Who of Social Software?

• Clay Shirky
• Bio
• Writer with articles published in the New York
  Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard
  Business Review
• Consultant for Global Business Network (GBN),
  Nokia, and the Library of Congress
• Part-time Instructor at NYU

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Clay Shirky

• Dan Gilmour of SiliconValley.com writes that Clay
  Shirky is an acute observer of the technology
  scene.

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Social Software - Phase One

• E-mail
• cc line
• Mailing lists - SF-Lovers

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Social Software - Phase Two

• The implementation of the following social
  software
• Usenet
• MUD
• MOO
• LambdaMOO
• IRC

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Social Software - Phase Three

• Improving and Utilizing Social Software
• Weblogs
• Wikis
• Groove
• Daypop
• IntraSmart http//www.mindbridge.com/demo/choose.h
  tml

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Technology for Social Software

• Required Technology
• Servers, CGI Scripts, HTML, Web Browsers
• Peer-to-Peer software
• Increased Popularity of Social Tools

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Case Study on Collaboration

• Source Constructware 2001 Client Impact Study
  Conducted by inSite!

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Future Developments

• Decentralization

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References

• http//www.socialtext.net/ssa/index.cgi?Social20S
  oftware20Alliance20Wiki
• http//www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SunirShah
• http//www.sylloge.com/sylloge.html
• http//www.gbn.org/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid2
  800
• http//www.shirky.com/writings/group_politics.html
  
• http//weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/
  archives/000899.shtml
• http//computing-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/
  Usenet
• http//wrt-rice.syr.edu/vivianstuff/moointro.html
• http//www.gotham-city.net/lambdamoo/
• http//www.construction.com/NewsCenter/it/news/02-
  20020110.asp
• http//www.mindbridge.com/demo/choose.html