CommunicationAndCollaboration
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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.
Contents
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
Blogosphere (networks of weblogs)
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
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)
