Poster Tools. List of collaborative software. This list is divided into proprietary or free software, and open source software, with several comparison tables among different product and vendors characteristics. It also includes a section of project collaboration software, which are combining with cloud computing services to become a standard feature in an emerging category of computer software: collaboration platforms. There may be some overlap between this list and the list of wiki software.
Collaborative software[edit] The following are software applications or solutions including free software: Comparison of notable software[edit] General Information[edit] Comparison of unified communications features[edit] Comparison of collaborative software features[edit] Comparison of targets[edit] Open source software[edit] The following are open source applications for collaboration: Standard client–server software[edit] Groupware: Web based software[edit] Other[edit] Project collaboration software[edit] Web-based software[edit] Other[edit]
Social software. Type of software Social software, also known as social apps or social platform, include communications and interactive tools that are often based on the Internet. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a pair or group of users. They focus on establishing and maintaining a connection among users, facilitating the mechanics of conversation and talk.[1] Social software generally refers to software that makes collaborative behaviour, the organisation and moulding of communities, self-expression, social interaction and feedback possible for individuals. Types[edit] Instant messaging[edit] Text chat[edit] Internet Relay Chat (IRC) and other online chat technologies allow users to join and communicate with many people at once, publicly.
Collaborative software[edit] Internet forums[edit] Wikis[edit] Blogs[edit] Theory[edit] Project management. The objective of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives. In many cases the objective of project management is also to shape or reform the client's brief to feasibly address the client's objectives. Once the client's objectives are clearly established they should influence all decisions made by other people involved in the project – for example project managers, designers, contractors and sub-contractors.
Ill-defined or too tightly prescribed project management objectives are detrimental to decision making. History[edit] Henry Gantt (1861–1919), the father of planning and control techniques PERT and CPM are very similar in their approach but still present some differences. CPM is used for projects that assume deterministic activity times; the times at which each activity will be carried out are known. Project management types[edit] Project management methods can be applied to any project. Approaches of project management[edit]
Workflow. A workflow management system (WfMS) is a software system for the set-up, performance and monitoring of a defined sequence of tasks, arranged as a workflow.[1] International Standards[edit] There are several international standards-setting bodies in the field of workflow management: Workflow Management Coalition[2]World Wide Web Consortium[3]Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards[4] The underlying theoretical basis of workflow management is the mathematical concept of a Petri net.[5] Each of the workflow models has tasks (nodes) and dependencies between the nodes. Tasks are activated when the dependency conditions are fulfilled. Workflows for People[edit] Workflow management systems allow the user to define different workflows for different types of jobs or processes.[6] For example, in a manufacturing setting, a design document might be automatically routed from designer to a technical director to the production engineer.
Automated workflows[edit] Categories[edit] Social bookmarking. Common features[edit] In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine. Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users.
It also helps to promote your sites by networking with other social book markers and collaborating with each other. History[edit] A user page on del.icio.us in May 2004, displaying bookmarks with tags. Folksonomy[edit] A simple form of shared vocabularies does emerge in social bookmarking systems (folksonomy). Uses[edit] Libraries[edit] Online proofing. Online proofing is the process undertaken by web designers, photographers, marketing agencies and video production companies, among others, to automate the review and approval of work online. Traditionally a process used by photographers, as more work is done online and teams work remotely this method of working allows people to collaboratively work together to speed up the design process and keep an online audit trail. Online proofing has also become widespread in the e-commerce industry. With the growing capabilities of the internet, companies who allow their customers to design and customize a product on their website have adopted the online proofing process as an effective quality assurance method.
Online proofing saves time in the purchasing process and improves customer buying experience and raises customer satisfaction.[1] References[edit] See also[edit] Project management. Social software.