Enhancing Collaboration tools

1. Management Information
System
WEB 2.0 Review By Lilliam
Arauz
Chap. 4: Enabling Commerce Using the Internet
Chap. 5: Enhancing Collaboration using Web 2.0

2. TECHNOLOGY BLOGS

3.  Founded in 1991, formerly on CompuServe and Prodigy, ZDNet reports
on a variety of tech news. ZDNet also features product reviews, software
downloads and tons of news and analysis on tech businesses and
issues. The information provided by this webpage is very important
because, for example, by providing product reviews, the visitors can buy
more carefully and do not get disappointed. Also, it provides important
information about the most recent tech issues and business for people to
keep up with what is going on in the tech world.

4.  If you’re looking for what’s next, look no further. Om Malik’s creation
has grown into one of the largest blogs worldwide, and it’s all due to
focusing on what’s new. News and analysis on Web 2.0, technologies
and startups, social media, gaming — you name it, GigaOM has it
covered. That’s what happens when you have a team of 12
technology-obsessed writers (six of which have authored over 100
posts each).

5.  Updated constantly, and nearly always entertaining, Mashable takes
the worlds of Twitter, Facebook, entertainment, news, and everything
else techies are talking about and, well, mashes it up into the kind of
blog casserole we just can’t get enough of.

6. BUSINESS / FINANCIAL BLOGS

7.  “Suria Investment Newsletter (SINLetter) is a free stock investment
newsletter that explores various ideas and opportunities ranging from
the importance of asset allocation to investing in water each month.”

8.  The thinking man's finance blog it is not. But if you are looking for all
manner of business and economic news, as well as Wall Street
gossip and what's hot on the Web, Business Insider is the best place
to go. Business Insider, which is headed by former Wall Street
analyst Henry Blodget, does a good job of picking its stories. A recent
photo gallery of what hotels look like in brochures versus what they
look like in person was a lot of fun and very helpful.

9.  The site is packed with consumer advice, and that's why WalletPop,
which launched in 2008, has quickly become one of the most popular
personal-finance sites on the Web. Recent posts include tips on
household expenses you can do without (air purifier), where to shop
for a wedding dress and video on whether cats or dogs are the more
economical pets (cats).

10. Entertainment Blogs

11.  Launched in 2005, TMZ’s meteoric rise followed its exclusive on two
of the biggest stories in entertainment: Mel Gibson’s DUI arrest and
subsequent encounter with law enforcement, and Michael Richards’
ill-fated trip to the Laugh Factory. TMZ also broke the news of the
breakup of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline’s marriage. TMZ
altered the entertainment news landscape by changing the way the
public gets its news

12.  Eonline is the most popular entertainment news source, providing us
with information about almost everything that deals with the
entertainment world. Being one of the fastest-growing, most
influential properties on the Internet, Eonline reaches more than 28
million unique users per month in the U.S. alone across its digital
platforms.

13.  IMDb (Internet Movie Database) is the world’s most popular and
authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. IMDb is the
#1 movie website in the world with a combined web and mobile
audience of more than 160 million unique monthly visitors. It offers a
searchable database of more than 130 million data items including
more than 2 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and
more than 4 million cast and crew members.

14. Google Docs
 A Google doc is a very useful web-based collaboration tool. It
allowed me to edit my documents and save them directly to my
drive. This prevents me of losing my documents if my
computer breaks up, and I forget to save it on a USB. Also, this
tool ends with the barriers of geography. Even though my
classmates are not in the same place in which I am, I can do or
edit a paper in team using this tool. My team and I will be able
to edit the paper at the same time, and we will be able to see
the different changes and comments that the others are doing.
Also, this tool allows me to convert my work to different formats
like .docx, .pdf, .odt, .rtf, .txt o .html. Finally, using Google
docs, I can save all the different drafts that I could made along
the path because it did not have a limited space.

16. LinkedIn

17. LinkedIn

18.  As a student, one of the main advantages that I found from
using LinkedIn is the professional connections that you can
create using it. By connecting with professionals I build a
very serious network of people where I can release news and
other important aspect of my business. Moreover, while using
LinkedIn I can find job postings where companies are hiring
people in my position. Finally, by using LinkedIn I can
increase my social networking with various people across the
globe. In this way, I can start my own company page where
other news or announcement can be posted

19. WORDPRESS.COM

20. WordPress

21.  First at all, it is important to describe what is WordPress, this is an online,
open source website creation tool written in PHP. Moreover, it is probably the
easiest and most powerful blogging in existence today. However, people often
make the mistake of classifying WordPress as just a blogging platform. Although
that used to be true in the past, WordPress has evolved through out the years
into a versatile content management system or CMS. While you can still use
WordPress to create a simple blog, now it also allows you to create fully
functional websites and mobile applications. The best part about WordPress is
that it’s easy to use and flexible enough for just about anything. That’s the main
reason why WordPress has grown so much in popularity. According to a recent
survey, WordPress powers 22.5% of all websites on the internet.
 WordPress is a very useful tool specially for companies who want to
publish on the web. Additionally, it encompasses very famous blogs, news outlet,
music sites, among others; also, WordPress is the most used blog for celebrities
and companies. For instance, famous blogs like Mashable and TechCrunch are
both on WordPress. News outlets like The New York Times’ blogs and CNN’s on-
air personality blogs all use WordPress as well.
 If you have ever curious about who uses WordPress, head on over to the
WordPress site showcase and you for sure will be impressed by the number of
well known sites and famous people that use WordPress to power their websites.
One of the reasons might be because WordPress is 100% free