0penED - Business and Management Competencies in a Web 2.0 world Module 1: Tools for collaboration in a Web 2.0 world This is my assignment with compilation of a short report on the opportunities and issues associated with using the latest freely available web-based collaboration tools and services. I design an overview on the existing types of tools for collaboration in a Web 2.0 world (separatly load in an excel file). I described the type of Web 2.0 Tools that I am using already with advantages and disadvantages of each Web 2.0 Tools and I added a global conclusion. I finish with a personal reflection on Web 2.0 Tools. Web 2.0, Entreprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collaborative, Transparency, Sharing, Creativity, Idea Generation, Decision-Making, Work or Production, Evaluation or Recapitulation, Learning, Research, Social Networking, Publishing, Information, United Nations, Advantages, Disadvantages, Project, Management, Business

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Session November 2011 - May 2012 February 2012
Student: Bonnemains Marc
Assignment: Module 1: Tools for collaboration in a Web 2.0 world
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Web 2.0, Entreprise 2.0, Collaboration, Collaborative, Transparency, Sharing, Creativity,
Idea Generation, Decision-Making, Work or Production, Evaluation or Recapitulation,
Learning, Research, Social Networking, Publishing, Information, United Nations,
Advantages, Disadvantages, Project, Management, Business
I. Overview on the existing types of tools for
collaboration in a Web 2.0 world
In the web 2.0 world, we have different kinds of tools. These tools
can be sort in different categories for various purpuse. I posted different
web addresses and an excel file where I list a long list of web 2.0 tools in
the forum.
II. Type of Web 2.0 Tools that you are using already
I used different tools web 2.0 in different categories that correspond
to business or personal as associative needs.
Social networking let me to maintain and develop professional
contact with people that I can not meet on regular base because of the
location distance. Collaborative works is important to share and realise
project in professional sphere as well associative activities. The flexibility
of the tools allows me to participate or ask to people to participate
independently of the cost, the distance or the time consuming, especially
for volunteers or international team members.
Some other tools (as Research, eLearning, Information, Sharing,
Publishing, Blogs) are used in the professional and private sphere to
maintain and develop skills and knowledge as to produce professional
knowledge and to share it with peers. The last tools (Social bookmarking,
Branding) are use in the professional activities for the personal branding.
The rest is using to participate and give back in social public space
as well to invest in social activities.
For each tools I find some advantages and disadvantages:
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Tools Advantages Disadvantages Categories
Social Networking
Facebook Simple, easy to use and Overcrowding and weakening C2 Team Creation Social Networking
orderly. long distance relationship.
Socialize with other over Contributes wide-range
distance and lack of time. procrastination and rampant
Makes it easier to join groups addiction.
having similar interest. To be stalking is possible.
LinkedIn Professional networking is an Time consuming and not fee for C2 Team Creation Social Networking
essential skill for career full use.
success. To be careful about images and
Ability to join special interest statements you upload.
groups and to ask questions.
Viadeo Idem. Idem. C2 Team Creation Social Networking
Google+ Good tools for parallel use. There is just one profile per C2 Team Creation Social Networking
person.
Concern about privacy of data.
Ning Basic account free. Cost to create your own C2 Idea Generation Collaborative works
Easy to use and offer features. communities. B2B
Possibility to create your own Ownership rights is own by the E2
social network. company.
Difficult to migrate any user or
content to other platforms.
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Collaborative works
Wikipedia Contains millions of articles. Anyone can edit it and C2 Work or Production Collaborative works
Do not need to wait for a information may not be reliable.
publisher to approve of the Not always accepted as a valid
content. source.
Anyone can add information
onto the website.
Mindjet Fee and collaborative tools Users need in general a training C2 Idea Generation Collaborative works
supported by a method to to perform the method. E2
increase productivity. Fee version with limitation.
Reflects the way your own
brain organizes ideas.
Mindmeister Idem. Idem. C2 Idea Generation Collaborative works
E2
Google Docs Free for the publics. Limit on data storage for users. C2 Work or Production Collaborative works
User-friendly and easy used Ongoing concerns about data B2C
with other provider services. privacy. B2B
Sharepoint Private use free. A complex product which E2 Work or Production Collaborative works
Offerings may offer integration requires constant maintenance,
with the company’s tools. tuning, and patching.
Can cost a lot.
SurveyMonkey Free and easy to use. Fees registration to download the B2C Decision-Making Collaborative works
data. E2
Doodle No registration, no cost and no Restricted service for free users. C2 Decision-Making Collaborative works
installation. B2B
E2
weezevent A free, hosted solution to C2 Work or Production Collaborative works
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organize events. E2
auboutdufil More or less free (local Limited to 50 participant. C2 Work or Production Collaborative works
communication cost) and easy E2
to use. B2B
Project2Manage Free. B2B Work or Production Collaborative works
Social bookmarking
Digg Can increase the traffic of your Managed by a group of core C2 Decision-Making Social Bookmarking
site. users which determines what site B2B
should be appear on top.
eCommerce
Amazon Easy access to goods. Do not have a control on the Work or Production eCommerce
Possibility to sales directly to process.
Ebay customers with out resellers. Lack of privacy on your data.
Paypal Easy access to financial Do not have a control on the C2C Work or Production eCommerce
transaction. process. B2C
Trustable transaction with Dependant on the will of the
diminution of risks. company.
Crowdfunding
Prod8moi Projects financing with a small Risks investments not calculate C2B Work or Production Crowdfunding
fee thru share buying. easily.
Possibility to finance not visible Operation subject to the
or alternative project with a intermediate rules with high
little fund. fee %.
Finansol Projects financing with a small Idem. C2B Work or Production Crowdfunding
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fee thru share buying.
Publishing
Lulu Free access for users. Various quality of the production. C2 Work or Production Publishing
No control and censure of your You have to do your own C2B
Thebookedition work. promotion.
Inlibroveritas
Communications
Scribb Idem. Various quality of the production. C2 Work or Production Publishing
B2B
Skype Free and contact all around the C2 Work or Production Communication
world.
It is possible to interact with
audio and video.
Twitter Quick and instant Only for short information. Work or Production Communication
communication all around the
world.
Gmail Everyone and easy using. Asynchronous tool. C2 Work or Production Communication
Lack of privacy on your data. B2B
Yahoo It is time consuming. C2B
Hotmail
Google Groups Get automatically specific The answers depend on the C2 Decision-Making Communication
information about desired quality of the group constitution. B2B
Yahoo Groups subjects.
Can get easily answer to your
question in the subject’s group.
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Professional Get automatically specific The answers depend on the C2 Decision-Making Communication
Tools (PMI, information about desired quality of the group constitution. B2B
subjects.
IIBA…) Can get easily answer to
professionals questions or
problems.
Informations
RSS flux Get automatically specific It is a passive tool. Decision-Making Information
information about desired
subjects.
Agoravox Access to alternative Quality and accuracy of C2 Decision-Making Information
information. information.
Possibility to participate of the
creation of information.
Newswire Can push information for Volume of commercial B2B Decision-Making Information
professional use (press information receive (press
release). release).
Can receive information (press
release).
Podcast The automatic subscription Although podcasts can easily be B2C Learning Information
feature of podcasts is a key made available through iTunes,
advantage. that shares files in a format not
Flexible learning opportunities: accessible to all computers and
can listen/watch any time. mp3 players.
Research
123 People Can find all public information Problem of privacy and C2 Decision-Making Research
on people easily at no cost. publication of user’s information. B2C
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Yatedo Can find all public information Problem of privacy and C2 Decision-Making Research
on people easily at no cost. publication of user’s information. B2C
Youseemii Free use. The question bout the criteria C2 Decision-Making Research
Web visibility index. take into consideration.
ResearchGate Can find all information Depend from the research C2 Work or Production Research
necessary rapidly at no cost. algorithm. B2B Decision-Making
Google Commercial use of the user’s
information research for
Bing advertising and others.
Yahoo
eLearning
iTunesU A large kind of information Owners techniques. In many B2C Learning eLearning
accessible for free, especially case you have some pay per
for learning. view (or listen).
webex A large kind of professional and Need fees to use it in production. B2C Learning eLearning
commercial webinars.
GoToMeeting A large kind of professional and Need fees to use it in production. B2C Learning eLearning
commercial webinars.
Sharing
Rapideshare Easy sharing for all types of Free users have limited right for C2 Work or Production Sharing
document. 90 days.
From the perspective of the
downloader, free accounts are
quite limited.
SlideShare Easy sharing for all type of Users must first create their files C2 Work or Production Sharing
using their own software such as
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documents. PowerPoint or Keynote. B2B
Apple Keynote users will need to
convert their presentations to
PDF's before posting on
SlideShare.
Youtube Easy sharing for video. Accessible for everyone. C2 Work or Production Sharing
Picasa Easy sharing for pictures. Can not use intensive download C2 Work or Production Sharing
as FTP.
Docstoc Easy sharing for documents. Require fees to use it. C2 Work or Production Sharing
Scribb Easy sharing for documents. Sharing Copyrighted Content. C2 Work or Production Sharing
Issuu Free online publishing tool that You have to take care of the B2B Work or Production Sharing
allows you to create publishing process alone (ISSN, B2C
professional-looking in an Copyright…).
instant.
Turn a poorly-formatted word
document into an exceptionally
beautiful brochure or catalog.
FlickR Easy sharing for pictures. Only 100 megabytes a month for C2 Work or Production Sharing
Basic account is free. a free account. C2B
Cool social sort-of-thing. Videos are only for paying
Lots of websites support Flickr members.
integration. Subject to being taken down for
Uses Creative Commons “questionable content”.
licensing.
BitTorrent Easy sharing for all types of Needs specific programs to be C2 Work or Production Sharing
document. install and run on your machine.
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Blogs
WordPress Simple template-ing. Relatively bad (poor) Work or Production Blog
Relatively simple plugin documentation (no offline
development. documentation).
It is free and Easy to host with It isn’t a full CMS product.
simple requirements. As with any open source project
Very powerful. (where anyone can download and
have a poke around the code and
find security holes) you need to
keep your installation bang up to
date.
Branding
BrandYourself A free, hosted solution to Not automatic. C2 Decision-Making Branding
survey your brand ranking. Users need to perform the tools B2C
Easy to use. by themself.
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III. Advantages and disadvantages of Web 2.0 Tools
Globally, I found some advantage to use all theses tools. First,
information can be pulled from a number of different places, and permit
me to communicate and to collaborate with others and spread ideas rather
than receiving information from one single authority. I can view events
from more than one perspective. I can find information that would
otherwise take a lot of time to acquire if even never.
In opposition it is some disadvantages. This technology dependent
from logical and technical infrastructures (provider, network, computer …).
As I can find accurate and hidden information in the ‘network’, this
information can be subject to manipulation as in physical life. Also the
possible lack of protection on private life as well the work/life balance can
be hard to achieve.
IV. Reflection on Web 2.0 Tools
Almost the web 2.0 tools increase the possibility of accessibility to
information, creativity, information exchange, connectivity and
collaboration between people all over the world in a non necessary
controlling manner or central authority. The system can be self organize
around ideas or projects as the ‘Open Source’ community or ‘Anonymous’
action.
But tools will not replace people and make them working or
collaborate better if they don’t want to do so; Or they do not know or
afraid to do it. All behaviour behind the use of these tools existed hundred
years ago within different forms. The difference was that before it was
under an authority of a person or a group of persons (boss, professional
alliances, secret society, alumni…) and thru more or less physical contact.
We can say that collaboration is not about the tools used but more about
mindset. We can just expect that the web 2.0 tools will introduce a
paradigm change in the people behaviour related to connectivity and
transparency. We can compare the web 2.0 tools as the introduction of
the printing industry in the 15th century that brings a paradigm change in
the access of information and knowledge with the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ of
this paradigm change.
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