CommunicationAndCollaboration

This is a list of some good tools to use to support communication and collaboration in a local and/or distributed environment. These tools work just as well when collaborating with someone in the office next door, as with someone on the other side of the planet.

= Weblogs =
 * Tim Bray: Blogging is Good for your Career - in response to the "blogging will get you fired" hype, Tim Bray wrote a thoughtful and accurate article on what blogging can do for you professionally.
 * UBC BlogShop
 * Brain of a Blogger - how writing a weblog can affect your thinking
 * Learning Design Project Weblog
 * APOLLO Development Weblog
 * D'Arcy Norman's Weblog
 * New York Office Furniture

Blogosphere (networks of weblogs)

 * Technorati Tags
 * Presentation on Technorati Tags

RSS Readers/Aggregators (central places to view updated information)

 * RSS 101: Presentation on Using RSS
 * NetNewsWire (MacOSX, free and commercial)
 * Bloglines (web, free)
 * Mozilla Thunderbird (cross platform, free)
 * Sage (Firefox extension, cross platform, free)
 * Listing on Wikipedia (various platforms and licenses)

Images / Photos

 * Flickr - Free online photo sharing

Audio / Podcasting

 * Podcasting

= Wikis =
 * Wikis described in plain english
 * Active Wiki @ UBC
 * What's the Fuss About RSS Project Wiki
 * WikiPedia - encyclopedia written by real people
 * WikiNews - Current events and news, written by real people
 * WikiTravel - travel guides written by real people
 * Wiki eases the burden of creating documentation

= Communication Tools =
 * iChatAV (text, audioconferencing, videoconferencing)]
 * AOL Instant Messaging (text chat)