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TitanPad. QikPad - Instant Collaboration Tool. 15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration. No man (or woman) is an island – and this statement can’t be any truer if you’re a designer or developer.

15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration

Though paid/subscription services like Basecamp and Zimbra are great, individuals strapped for cash have a ton of alternatives that provide similar (if not better) features. In this article, you’ll find 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration. Whether you need basic whiteboarding/brainstorming tools or fully-featured project management applications – you should be able to find a tool or two that’s worth checking out. Google Docs Google Docs is an excellent application for collaboration. Stixy Stixy is a flexible, online “bulletin board”/drawing board. Project2Manage Project2Manage is a fully-featured, free, hosted solution for project management and collaboration (similar to Basecamp). Bubbl.us bubbl.us is a free, web-based application for collaborative brainstorming. Dabbleboard Dabbleboard is a robust, online whiteboard that’s easy to use. Protonotes Twiddla. Jing, screenshot and screencast software from TechSmith.

Cacoo - Create diagrams online Real time collaboration. COLOR VOTE - le détecteur d'idées. Real-time Delphi. Real-time Delphi (RTD) is an advanced form of the Delphi method. The advanced method “is a consultative process that uses computer technology” [1] to increase efficiency of the Delphi process. Definition and idea[edit] Gordon and Pease [2] define the advanced approach as an innovative way to conduct Delphi studies that do not involve sequential “rounds” and consequently lead to a higher degree of efficiency with regard to the time frame needed to perform such studies.

Friedewald, von Oertzen, and Cuhls [3] underline that aspect by writing, in “a Real-Time-Delphi, the participants do not only judge twice but can change their opinion as often as they like when they see the aggregated results of the other participants”. So, here it becomes clear that the Real-Time Delphi approach requires real-time calculation and provision of group responses. History[edit] Differences between Conventional and Real-time Delphi Method[edit] Methodological Advancements[edit] References[edit] The Delphi Method: Techniques and Applications. The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.

-Sir Joshua Reynolds Reality is a name we give our collections of tacit assumptions about what is. We bring along these realities to give meaning to our interactions. Each of us maintains several of these realities--at least one for every significant set of others in our lives. We have domestic realities, parental-family realities, professional realities, sexual realities, organizational realities, stylistic realities.... Realities can be described as presumed agreements which give meaning to our thoughts and make reasonable our actions in each setting. I believe with others that there is nothing more practical than good theory. Another problem with examples is that they represent only a small fraction of the myriad of potential applications for this approach to Delphi inquiry. Concepts of Reality.