Collaboration I
This is often termed groupware support and Lotus Notes is best known corporate product
Collaboration implies sharing of electronic objects and is needed in asynchronous and synchronous modes
AOL Yahoo etc. have Internet games which illustrate one sophisticated form of collaboration
Chat rooms are perhaps most popular and are simplest synchronous tool. White boards next most popular
Asynchronous mode is
- shared web pages and documents (these are be shared synchronously or asynchronously)
- electronic mail, event calendars, bulletin boards
http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango/ is a collaboration system supporting synchronous sharing of events where events signify changes in objects