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Unit 13: Collaborating via Social Networks and Groupware

by providing capture, integration and access capabilities for distributed meetings. Captured Notes
synchronous information is integrated with other related information in TeamSpace, enabling
users to efficiently gain knowledge of both current and past team activities.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
9. ………………… and …………………… are examples of groupware because they inform
others in the group about what is happening to the project.

10. ………………………. also includes document version management or document
versioning as well as a change management system.
11. ……………………. can be remote and long distant.

12. …………………………. presence is not necessary.
13. ……………………………. can perform their specific functions wherever they are and are
not relegated to specific locations.

14. …………………………. is a privately held web services company based in Walnut Creek,
California, United States.
15. …………………………… is an online application that makes creating a team website as
easy as editing a document.
16. …………………………. allows you to develop a free personalized group Website.

Case Study Collaborate, Innovate, Adapt! – Collaboration Taps
into Social Networks to Aid Productivity

hether or not any given software solution was first built as a collaboration
tool, chances are that it now has at least some collaborative capability. Every
Wsoftware product from content management to search tools lets users interact
with each other and work together. College students routinely use virtual workspaces for
team-based academic tasks, and project management software is increasingly collaborative.

Of all the collaboration solutions that dot the landscape, social collaboration software is
without question the most rapidly growing segment of the market. IDC expects the
worldwide enterprise social software market to grow from $767.4 million to $4.5 billion
in revenue by 2016. That represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of
42.4 percent.
"Enterprise social software will continue to exist as stand-alone applications, but as social
capabilities are embedded into existing enterprise applications, business processes
inevitably become more social," says Vanessa Thompson, research manager, enterprise
social networks and collaborative technologies at IDC.
Fostering Innovation
The National Health System (NHS) Institute for Innovation and Improvement supports
the English healthcare system by identifying and sharing best practices to improve the
quality of care and help contain costs. Early in 2012, the NHS asked the NHS Institute to
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