Collaboration Tools

iguis asked:

In my previous blog, I laid out the proposition that Collaboration would transform how we do business and create tremendous amounts of real business value, as long as it was done properly. Organization need to approach the topic of Collaboration in a deliberate, strategic, fashion. This includes deploying the right Collaboration tools, in the right environment for the right tasks, taking into account the organizations core cultural attributes. That leaves us with the following question: what is the best collaboration tool for my project?

Google asked:

Jeff Keltner discusses Google Apps Education Edition, Google’s hosted communication and collaboration tools for schools.

Fat Jack asked:


When someone tells you that the future of the world depends on collaborative software, don’t brush him off thinking he is just kidding. The collaborative tools are used to improve communication and productivity within the organization and around the world. A range of collaborative software and tools are already there and new products are being integrated with the collaborative technology for more communication support for the industry and real life.

So the objectives behind collaborative software can be summarized in this way:

• Enabling products with new knowledge and capabilities and farther spreading and development of knowledge.

• Encouraging innovation in the sphere of web.

• Strengthening the contacts and relationship among the members of an organization, relationship between employer and employee and business and its customers etc.

TikiWiki and Collaborative technology

The TikiWiki is a web based collaboration tool; it is by far one of the most popular in this genre of software too. A collaborative tool like this helps you in instantly creating intranet, wikisite, informative portals, weblogs and many more and maintaining them effortlessly. No, for this you don’t have to be a programmer wizard or authority on HTML authoring tools—a basic knowledge of how to fill up an HTML form is sufficient to let you create and maintain TikiWiki.

How TikiWiki supports the collaborative technology?

• TikiWiki can be defined as a flexible, powerful, and easy to use enterprise collaboration platform. As a collaborative tool it supports content management system.

• It is structured to support Wikisites and enabled to run a project development space, document management system, knowledge base or blog on an intranet or on the internet.

• The TikiWiki allows you to create web content collaboratively by using just a browser. Editing, revision control, well defined permission system, RSS/Atom feeds, wide range of plugins and email notifications are some of its major collaborative features. In addition to that the software is strictly modular and configurable in nature allowing the system for required customizations.

Ask your web host to include TikiWiki feature in your web hosting account and rest assured to experience the complete internet presence.