Online Collaboration Tools and Processes

Online Collaborative Tools and Processes

• Applications and programs facilitating interaction toward a common goal
• Online collaborations involve remote participants socially or professionally, utilizing accessible tools and processes
• Online collaboration tools are cloud-based, assisting teams in organizing, exchanging files, and managing work regardless of team member location

Synchronous Collaboration

• Real-time information exchange through video conferencing and instant messaging
• Instantaneously discussing topics and providing feedback
• Prone to going off-topic and digressing when new ideas emerge

Asynchronous Collaboration

• Self-paced
• Examples include email conversations and voice messages
• Best for projects lacking urgency or intensive thinking, aiding focus and allowing prepared responses

Types of Online Collaboration Tools

• Project Management Tools
  • Designed for project and professional collaboration
  • Assign tasks and acts as an information-sharing hub
  • Features reporting to track progress
  • Includes calendar, messaging, and file-sharing capabilities
  • Trello is an example with project boards, workflow lists, and task cards
• Shared Calendars
  • Synchronize schedules and deadlines
  • Often included in collaborative software suites like Microsoft Teams or as calendar plugins for scheduling and collaboration
• Instant Messaging Tools
  • Enable instant communication via text, voice, and files
  • Some platforms enable channels and group chats
  • Social media apps like Facebook Messenger and Discord are used by the younger generation
• File Sharing Tools
  • Securely back up files and store them in the cloud for real-time editing and collaboration
  • Standard in professional and industry settings
• Video Conferencing Tools
  • Enable audio and video meetings and seminars from any location
  • Offer real-time conversation, screen sharing, and breakout rooms
  • Include Zoom, Google Meet, Skype for Business, and Microsoft Teams

Curating Existing Content for Web Use

• Online collaboration tools enhance ICT content development.
• Helps curate or organize ICT content to boost awareness of social empowerment.
• Content curation is finding, sharing, and organizing information that is relevant to the primary audience from various sources.
• Content curation examples: sharing a link to a blog, sharing someone's work, and creating a compilation

Content Creation Strategies

• Choosing the Correct Content
  • Delivering useful content to the creator and audience
  • Irrelevant content is to be avoided
  • Searching on Google and social media can help, and content must be high quality, or it can easily affect overall messaging
• Personalized Thoughts
  • Adding thoughts that reflect perspectives related to the primary message
  • Ideal as it highlights related details and can help drive engagement
• Socialize
  • Tagging original creators when sharing content, if permission has been obtained
  • Reaching out online increases chances for opportunity, failure to copyright before publishing is a concern
• Publishing Content at the Right Time
  • Essential to publish content when most are using social media
  • Morning is ideal as it creates a point of discussion for the whole day

Content Curation Tools

• Buzzsumo
  • Lists popular content by subject using keywords or domains
  • Lists can be sorted by date, content type, or authors
• Pocket
  • Stores relevant content for later use
  • Functions as a browser plugin
  • Users can bookmark and remember websites on the Internet
• Flipboard
  • Allows creating mini magazines with video, music, or text
  • Has a user-friendly design for rich content
• Pinterest
  • Can curate images online by pinning visual content on a pinboard
  • Used as a social media platform
• Feedly
  • Collects content from popular sources and displays them effortlessly
  • Organizes content from publications, tweets, blogs, and YouTube channels

Nature and Purposes of Online Platforms and Applications

• Integral to today's digital generation helping everyone transition from traditional ways of communication
• Facilitates Faster Interaction
  • Increased reliance on online services for education, entertainment, connection, communication, content creation, and access to jobs, transportation, and accommodations
  • Platforms provide accessibility at the tip of the finger or single click
• Diverse Business Models
  • Opportunities such as marketplaces, networks, app stores, and travel platforms
  • Equal footing for those with access and those willing to succeed
• Social Empowerment
  • The most significant effect of online platforms and applications
  • Messages on social, political, environmental, and economic concerns spread widely
  • Allows people to come together for a common goal regardless of social justice