Group discussion on OpenEd course: Business and Management Competencies in a Web 2.0 World (carinamano and feni_vi)

1. OpenEd Course: Module 1: Activity 3
Full Names:
Sandra Carina Mano Figueiredo Fernandes (Carinamano)
Foteini Vavitsa (Feni_Vi)

2. What are the Web 2.0 Tools?
Applications-Technologies that have contribute to
the change of the Internet and the way that the
client-server model work. All the means that offer to
the web pages the ability to be dynamic and
collaborative and to the users the ability to be
collaborative and form a web page according to their
own needs rather than be passive and just read what
web pages creators are writing.

3. What this activity is about?
At a previous activity each of the people of this group
has made its own list about Web 2.0 Tools of
Collaboration that they use in their everyday life, both
for job purpose, for communicating or just for fun.
For the purpose activity the people of the group had a
conversation in which they combined the tools that
they both use. In conjunction to that they made some
lists about the ways that all those tools have enhanced
their everyday life. Finally, because everything has
both a good and a bad side, the members of the group
discussed about advantages and disadvantages that
have discerned throughout the use of the tools.
After the end of the discussion the following board
has came up:

4. List of Tools of Collaboration
TYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Search Engines
• Google
• Yahoo
• Altavista
Pieces of
information, from
all over the world.
Opportunity to find
out about web
pages, that
otherwise wouldn’t
know about.
•Provides a Great
variety of
information, both in
number and type,
just in one click.
•Ability to search
information that
have appeared
recently.
•Easy to handle.
•Results that do not
always adhere to what
is asked.
•Results’ reliability into
question.
•Lack of control in the
results referring to
highly controversial
issues (e.g. drugs,
anorexia nervosa)

5. List of Tools of Collaboration
TYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Wiki • Little Wiki
• Wikipedia
• Edit me
•Ability to find
information,only in a
few seconds and
from my apartment,
about historical facts
and scientific pieces
of information that in
the past would have
to search into books
for hours in a public
library.
•Great variety of
entries.
•Pieces of
information updated
frequently.
•Ability to search for
information in many
languages
•Depreciation of books
and libraries.
• Translation which is
not of good quality
•Translation made
voluntarily from users
deprivation of
occupation.

6. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Bulletin Boards • Forums
• Mailing Lists
•Easy and quickly
response to some
questions
•Easy help to
informatics problems
•Analyze different
point of views for
some matter from
different people (and
not only specialized
people on the theme)
•Allow people to
participate, create articles
which became visible
immediately
•Allow fast response
•Allows other people to
complete or correct the
information
•Dynamic and interactive
•Old but useful material
remains persistent and
easily found (information
isn’t ordered only by
chronological post)
•Normally allow different
types of media
•The risk of getting
wrong information
•It can take too long
to get the answer
•Disagreements may
occur and if there
isn’t a moderator it
can be unpleasant

7. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB
2.0 TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Instant
Messaging
• MSN
• Messenger
• Skype
(voip)
• eBuddy
•Communicate with
friends without the
need of a
telephone.
•People can find you
only if they know your
email
address.
•Ability to make a call to
a friend if they are
online,
without using a phone
appliance.
•Ability to share files
with friends through the
window of
communication without
the need of email.
•Easy contagion of
viruses and spams
through the windows of
communication.
•Email addresses tend
to be more easy to find
from
people you may not
know and may not want
to have a
contact with them.
•In case of using it at
work, it can be
distracting, giving
the opportunity to talk
with people outside the
company.

8. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Social Networks •Facebook
•Netlog
• Myspace
• Twitter
• Linkedln
• Hi5
•Found people that
have lost
communication
with, only by
searching their
name.
•Opportunity to stay in
touch with many people
without regard to the
distance between.
•Opportunity to get to
know with people from
different countries and
cultures.
•Spend time
alternatively.
•Easy and cheap.
•For an enterprise it’s
possible and easy to
post advertising
•Users profiles and
personal
information
accessible to
people that
shouldn’t be able to
see them.
• Uploaded files
that everyone can
save in their
computer and use
them.
•Lack of privacy.

9. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•RSS •iGoogle
•Feed Digest
•Stay informed
throughout the day
only for matters that
are of the
individual’s interest.
•No need to constantly
searching for news in
many web pages, all
pages gathered in one.
•Get informed about
temperature and
weather of the city you
are staying wherever
that is.
•Opportunity to adjust
the style of your page
according to what you
like.
•Risk to get drift
and amass RSS
feeds from web
pages that you
don’t really need.
•Not helping in
broaden your
horizons and find
out about new web
pages which might
be better.
•It is not applied yet
in all web pages.

10. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Blogs •Blogger
•Blogspot
•Obtain personal
and public
information.
•Read actualized
information from my
customers, suppliers
and friends.
•Follow information
through time
(development of a
project, someone’s
trip, friend’s
pregnancy)
•Share photos, texts,
poems, events
•Allow diary or even
minutely actualization
•Share lots of different
information at the same
place.
•For an enterprise it’s
possible and easy to
post advertising
•Everyone can read
the information you
post, it isn’t private
•The possibility to
occur
disagreements or
impolite comments
•If the blog is too
big or too followed it
means huge work
to manage the
comments

11. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Sharing
Websites
•Youtube
•Metacafe
•Ability of access
into lots of different
material (video,
presentation, music)
for my work as a
trainer
•Later viewing of a
concert, debate,
conference, and so
on
.
•Great Variety of
videos that it is not
achievable to find
everywhere else.
•Good quality for image
and video
•Free to post and share
familiar or personal
videos
•Finding videos with the
same subject just by
classifying
•Possibility to post
videos with
pornographic, racist
or prejudicial nature,
scenes of violence.
•A way of helping
music piracy, in
conjunction with free
download software
that you can easily
find on the Internet.
•Ability to post only
videos that are short
in duration, in cases
you want to see a
video with longer
duration you have to
search for all of their
parts.

12. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Office •Google docs
•Dictionary
•Make schedule for
training sessions is
published in Google
docs
•Using it to sign into
groups in courses
(e.g. OpenEd
Course)
•Share photos with
friends and family
•Share databases
with other
companies, when
needed
•Easy sharing
documents, photos,
schedules, and so on
•Possibility to be public
or to be seen only for
registered members
•Possibility to interact
with various people
through the same
document: great for
work group
•Documents saved
automatically to your
account and you can
read them again and
again when needed.
•Small storage
capacity
•Few formatting
options
•Wait for a long
time to load all of
the pages, which
are never loaded at
once and all
together.

13. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF WEB
2.0 TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED
MY WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•E-mail •Gmail
•Yahoo
•Hotmail
•For use throughout the
day, for almost
everything: schedule
dinner with friends, send
budget to customers,
receive orders, receive
information about the
training groups, send
information (reports,
news, etc.)
•Mail gives the ability to
receive newsletters for
many resources with
very interesting issues,
without the need to look
at each web page every
once in a while.
•Easy to use, you may send
the same information for
various people without
revealing the e-mails
(through BCC)
•Allows excluding spam and
another filters
•Cheap-Free of charge
•Allow attaching lots of
documents in different types
•Searching for a job: Upload
your CV in pages that carry
job advertisements and then
those web pages send you a
daily list of open jobs that
may fit to your interests.
•The answer isn’t
immediate
•Easy to send viruses
and fraud in inducing
•It has become easy
for personal data -
such as e-mail
address- to transpire
and become known to
spams and
businesses that want
to create databases,
but without
permission.

14. List of Tools of CollaborationTYPE OF
WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS ENHANCED
MY WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Travel •Booking
•TravBuddy
•Anyway.com
•43 Places
•Search for information
and opinions about
places to visit, prices,
airlines,
accommodation,
transports, important
tips, and so on
•Online reserve
•Get opinion from
another people who
have already done that
trip (especially for
hotels and restaurants)
•Important tips (prices,
transports – metro,
train, bus – exchange,
non touristic places to
visit, etc.)
•Attention to security
form to pay
•Some opinions are too
demanding or too
lenient

15. List of Tools of Collaboration
TYPE OF
WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Games •Mahjong
online
• Poker
•No application in
professional
activities, but fun for
sure
•Spend time
•Have fun
•Develop logical and
strategic thinking
•Dependence and costs
•Photograph
y
•Olhares
•Slide.com
•Flickr
•Photobucket
•Curiosity in my
case
•Share photos
•Reveal talents
•Show beautiful places
•Breach of copyright

16. List of Tools of Collaboration
TYPE OF
WEB 2.0
TOOL
EXAMPLE HOW IT HAS
ENHANCED MY
WORK/LIFE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
•Music •Posdcast
netwrok
• iLike
• iTunes
•Easy to get lots of
different music
•Listening to music
•Organize “music
library”
•Save lots of music
•Quick and intuitive
navigation
•Breach of copyright
•Business • London
Stock
Exchange
• Team
Viewer
•Team Viewer for
remote access and
repairs on my pc
•Send big files
•Remote access to
others pc
•Remote access to others
pc

17. To sum up…
Technology is updating every day even more, but always
around one standard: give the ability to businesses and
every day people to plan their tasks, communicate with
friends, collaborate with other people and amass
information through every kind of machine that can use
the internet. Maybe this is a way to assimilate more easy
globalization in our everyday life and downrate distance
even more. Maybe it is just one more risk which will make
people trapped and without the right to private life.
If this new situation is good or bad is too soon to tell. The
only thing that is sure is that the only way to apply those
new technologies in our everyday life is Web 2.0 Tool.
Apart from their advantages and their disadvantages they
are the window to what we call Web 2.0 World and a great
new experience to follow, at least for now…