Collaboration Tools and Digital

PresenceYazzira M. Zepeda

Collaboration Tools

What are Collaboration Tools?

• we can define a collaboration tool as a technology tool that can be used to help people work together to achieve a common goal or objective.

• Collaboration tools can route work through a process, distribute pieces and tasks to involved parties, and help to coordinate activities.

GOOGLE DRIVE

File Hosting Collaboration

Tool

What is Google Drive?Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service. It allows users to store files in the cloud, synchronize files across devices, and share files.

How can Google Drive help you in:

Work• Helps to organize

your work more efficiently.

• Safe all the work presentations.

• You can look on the cloud for information needed at the moment.

• Share your work done with co-workers.

Classes• Create documents,

spreadsheets, presentations and your classmates would be able to edit or modify.

• Share files with your classmathes or teachers.

• Organize your work and safe it in the cloud.

• Be able to see your work whenever and wherever.

Home• You can share

whatever with your family, even a movie saved in the cloud.

• You storage family information.

• Family can connect through their devices and suggest or modify your files.

• Share information wih your family.

Important Features of Google Drive

Important Features of Google Drive

Data storage• Google drive offers a

standard 15GB of storage space for free to all the users. Gmail users can store all their email communications, attachments, photos and videos directly on to the Google Drive storage servers without any fuss.

Important Features of Google Drive

Collaboration• Files stored in the cloud are

kept confidential and it is up to the user to decide on whether to share their files online or not. Users can share their files with their loved ones and this allows others to edit and comment on the file shared.

Important Features of Google Drive

Google Photos• Users can store all their

personal photos on the Drive and give them a new life with the help of Google Photos. Google photos can be used to perform expert editing, animation settings etc. without having to do anything. Users can transform their pictures completely.

Some Tools for Google Drive

CloudConvert• CloudConvert is a free

file conversion tool for Google Drive.

• More than 200 different file formats are supported across a large number of categories. The categories include audio, video, documents, eBooks, archives, images, spreadsheets, and presentations.

WHY WORK WITH GOOGLE DRIVE?

• Google launched its very own file sharing and online storage program. Ergonomic and easy to use, Google Drive resembles Dropbox and Skydrive in many ways but integrates seamlessly with Gmail, is synchronized with Google Docs and Google +, and, most importantly, allows you to store all your files in one single place that is accessible at all times!

DIGITAL PRESENCE

What Does it Mean to have a Digital Presence?

• Having a digital presence simply means that you occupy space online.

• Your digital presence is your online reputation. And the million dollar question is, how have you presented yourself?

Why is it important to have Digital Presence?

With the constant and rapid advancement of technology in all industries, online has begun to play an increasingly larger role in business, and it is vital that companies look at their current digital presence, and adapt it to best suit where their company is going, and how to optimally engage with their target market.

Why you need digital presence?• Visibility-- Having a solid presence online helps you become

the dominating top-of-mind producer in your field.• Lubrication– How many times have you made a prospecting

call and been asked, “What is your name again?”  “Who are you?”  Or how many referrals do you receive from highly connected and influential people?  Becoming known online makes everything easier.

• Authority – Publishing content – or curating content – gives you authority in your marketplace.  

• Rapport – Sharing great content online – helps you build rapport with your audience of prospects and potential customers.

• First Impression

WHAT IS LINKEDIN?

WHAT IS LINKEDIN?• LinkedIn is a social network for professionals.• LinkedIn is for anybody and everybody who's

interested in taking their professional lives seriously by finding new opportunities to grow their careers and to connect with other professionals.

Benefits of using LinkedIn

• Use your profile as your resume.

• Find and apply to jobs. • Find and connect with new

professionals.

Use your profile as your resume•  Your LinkedIn profile basically represents a more complete (and interactive) resume. You can include it as a link perhaps in an email or your cover letter when you apply to jobs.

Find and apply to jobs• Remember that LinkedIn is one of the best places to look for job postings online.

Find and connect with new professionals

• LinkedIn gives you the opportunity to discover new professionals that may be able to help you find better opportunities to work.

LinkedIn helps you create Digital Presence

Have a LinkedIn account brings you the opportunity to be visible to other professionals, companies and colleagues.

CONCLUSION

Collaboration Tools• "the work and activity of a

number of persons who individually contribute toward the efficiency of the whole.

• It enables us to share resources, achieve shared goals, share new ideas and new perspectives.

• Critical decisions are made earlier in the process and work done well without compromising on results.

Digital Presence• Having a digital presence

simply means that you occupy space online

• you should be in control of your digital presence.

• Regardless of industry, your digital presence has a lot to offer your business- so understand it, embrace it, and make it work for you.