1. The Collaborative Tools Project

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What have we done so far?

Whats coming next?

What is collaboration anyway?

Some tools and approaches (guinea pigs)

3. Jargon Busters Who you gonna call? 4. What Weve Been Doing 5. Listening Collaborative Writing Project Workgroup Day To Day Departmental Marketing Files Events Blogs Wikis Twitter Blogs Sharing Chat Video Blog Discussion Word Wikis 6. Trying Stuff 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Collaborative Editing?

Where are we?

From our Use Cases 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. Tyre-kicking 21. 22. Hacking 23. 24. People, people, people 25. Thinking 26. What is Collaboration Anyway? 27. What the University Wants You To Do Collaboration is... 28. Working Together

Synchronously

In the same room Dispersed Meetings Conferencing Chat ustream On a document or thing In general 29. Working Together

Asynchronously

In the same room Dispersed Meetings Conferencing Chat ustream On a document or thing In general 30. Share, Report, Decide, Discuss, Agree, Lurk, Help, Discover, Act, Cajole, Organise, Communicate, Solve, Invent, Compromise

Or what you actually do

31. Linear or Random? 32. Blended is best Its never just the people in the room, nor the people online 33.

http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/roomvc011

34. So Whats The Plan? 35. No Idea

We havent a clue, but we know whats crap

36. Agile

Lets deal with what we have and fix what we can...

...by next week

Not just about technology? The way we do things 37. More Gizmos 38.

Attention

Participation

Collaboration

Network awareness

Crap Detection... ahem... critical evaluation

http://www.socialmedia.biz/2009/07/18/howard-rheingold-on-essential-media-literacies/ 39. Why collaboration is currently a bit crap 40. Emailing Documents Around Versions Late-comers Multiple Edits Process Software Ownership 41. Forums / Email Lists Archives Textual Nit-picking 42. Nobody Tells Me Anything

I wasnt consulted

Where is that?

If Id have known then...

43. Information Overload

Stop telling me stuff

Stop being boring

You dont know (and cant know) what matters (to someone else)

44. Portals

Computers cant tell you want you need to know

45. Corporate Systems

Calendars, Blogs, File Sharing, Dear God Help Me!

46. Wrong Medium / Wrong Place

Email, pages, chat, phone, document

47. Im already too busy 48. So What Does Work? 49. Not The Stuff Weve Done Before

Emails, Email lists, Documents, Forums,

50. Web2.0?

User Generated Content& Crowd-sourcing

Easy To Use Interfaces (Ajax)

Browsers

Buzzword Bingo

Speed Results Cut costs More effective New markets Bigger markets Better markets Its the best weve got and its here now Self-help Discovery 51. You are doing this stuff already... the technology is only just catching up 52. So, whats the answer? We dont know, but we know where to start looking 53. Its messy but ... 54. Its probably web-based...

URLs are everything

Its not just about browsers (Evernote, ScrnShots, DropBox)

Its open (ish)

55. Open is A Good Thing

Standards, code, access, wikis

Microformats, RSS

56. Not Bad Is Good Enough 57. Transparency Is Really Good

ClueTrain Manifesto

The MacroMedia story

TheyWorkFor You

58. 59. Personally Owned, Personal, Participative is Good

Self-service, blogs, everything commentable

60. The New Organisation...

• distributed, place, time zones, function

61. ...Needs A New Usability

Google, GMail, Flickr, YouTube... anything is possible!

BaseCamp

Calendars

Trac / Google Code

62. Maps Are Everywhere

Where stuff is, where you are, visualisation

63. 64. Mobile Is Everywhere Too

The places between places, when you need it.

Podcasts

65. Whats Crowd-sourcing Anyway?

Wikipedia, Wikinomics, Design Briefs, Delicious

66. 67. 68. 69. Whats Delicious?

Folksomonies, messy, emergent, not-explicit, re-usable, integrateable

Visual, Handy, High Level, Specific

70. 71. 72. 73. Whats RSS, Whats An Aggregator

RSS, Google Reader, Feedly.

Information is a stream.

Its Your Information

74. 75. 76. 77. Whats Twitter?

Whats now?

Its where people are anyway... aggregator... intranet

Its on their phone

78. 79. 80. The Holy Grail and Wet Dream

Mashups!

Distributed Innovation

Self-service software... Yahoo Pipes, Many Eyes, Dapplr

Its all in the Cloud

81. 82. 83. So Whats The Plan? 84. Get More Online People Information Connections Ideas Plans Reflections Opinions Crap We Dont Need 85. Make Everything Participative Comments Votes Annotation Improvement Forward Copy Connect 86. Open = Discoverable Make Sense of the Mess 87. Visualisation

Let the computers do the hard work

Let the people do the stuff that matters

Dashboards Summaries TagClouds Diagrams Charts Lists 88. Standards = Plugable The Way I Want It HTML RSS XML 89. In the olden days 90. Applications

Features

Price

Platform

Deploy

91. Web

Feature

Community

Releases / Bugs / Fixes

RoadMap

Integrate

Now

Branding

iPhone app

Firefox plugin

92. So How Do We Do All This? 93. Cant Be Stalinist 94. Cant Be Finished

What we put in it, changes what it is

95. Has To Be A Good Experience for External People

Toms Law No. 405 If its not easy, it wont get done

96. Grow Buy In

Experience,Adaptation, Evangelism, Integration

Personal Recommendations 97.

The Social Media Theory of Everything

Social Selfish Easy Difficult 98. 99.

The Social Media Theory of Everything

Social Selfish Easy Difficult 100. Knowing About Stuff

Its not big or clever

101. If I Were King

100 things that everyone would be made to do... just for the hell of it...

Tools are appearing faster than you can imagine

102. If You Were Queen 103. Blogger

Think about what youre doing

Tell me what youve done

Tell me even though you dont know why... or who I am

Just Get The Habit

Its Not About You

Posterous Soup.io Wordpress 104. 105. 106. Google Reader Be the expert Mix It With Bird Watching Use Feedly PageFlakes 107. Ning / Facebook / Linked In

Create/work with a community

108. 109. 110. 111. UserVoice Get Satisfaction...What is Democracy anyway? Digg Reddit SurveyMonkey Find Out 112. 113. Etherpad

Work together, right now

114. Delicious

Keep a track of stuff

Be able to nosey around

Visualize complex data

Emerge!

StumbleUpon Technorati Diigo Wordle 115. 116. Google Docs Docs, Calendar, Mail Zoho Scribd eDocr 117. 118. 119. You Tube

Making screencasts is easy

Camtasia Animoto Screenr TeacherTube ScreenToaster 120. 121. Audio Boo

With your iPhone

Because you can

Audacity 122. 123. Picnik 124. Conferencing

DimDim

Adobe Connect 125. Firefox Those extra bits that make life easier 126. iPhone Because life is crap 127. Wiki

The thing that gets better over time

Wet Paint Peanut Butter Wikispaces 128. Flickr, TwitPic

A picture is worth a thousand words...

129. Evernote 130. 131. Prezi

Think Visually

http://prezi.com /

132. BitTorrent 133. Twitter Twhirl TweetDeck 134. Add To A WikiPedia Page 135. Voice Thread 136. Issu / eDocr

PDFs

137. Skype 138. Last.fm 139. Mind Maps

http://bubbl.us

FreeMind MindMeister 140. 141. Lovely Charts

http://www.lovelycharts.com /

142. And Finally... 143.

http://collaborate.york.ac.uk

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