Enhancing Collaboration Using Web 2.0

1. Management Information
System
Karen Real

2. Technology Blogs
A Web site where an
individual maintains a
personal journal or even
an interactive forum much
like a personal newsgroup.
The vast majority of blogs,
or so it seems, are pretty
silly electronic diaries
posted by adolescents.

3. GIGAOM
Gigaom, is a technology research and analysis firm. Our focus is
on helping business leaders understand the implications of
emerging technologies and their impacts on business, media, and
society.
They are forward-leaning, with a futures-oriented take on the
trends and tools that are shaping the economy of the 21st
century: Cloud,Data, Mobile, Work Futures, and the Internet of
Things. Gigaom reaches over 6.5 million monthly unique readers,
with a mobile reach of over 2 million monthly visitors.
They also work closely with two constituencies: innovative
technology vendors seeking to understand their markets and
competition, and business leaders who must assess technologies
and understand trends as they impact their businesses and
industries.

4. Techcrunch
TechCrunch is a leading technology media property,
dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new
Internet products, and breaking tech news.
TechCrunch operates CrunchBase, a database of the startup
ecosystem consisting of investors, incubators and start-ups,
which comprises around 500,000 data points profiling
companies, people, funds, fundings and events. The company
claims to have more than 50,000 active contributors.
Members of the public, subject to registration, can make
submissions to the database; however, all changes are subject
to review by a moderator before being accepted. Data is
constantly reviewed by editors to ensure it is up to date.
CrunchBase says it has 2 million users accessing its database
each month.

5. MASHABLE
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and
entertainment company.
Mashable is a leading source for news,
information & resources for the Connected
Generation. Mashable reports on the importance
of digital innovation and how it empowers and
inspires people around the world. Mashable's 45
million monthly unique visitors and 25 million
social media followers have become one of the
most engaged digital networks in the world.

6. Business/Financial Blogs
A business blog is one of the
most cost-effective and
easiest ways to promote
your business. Done right, it
can drive traffic to your
website, increase your sales,
establish you as an
authority in your industry
and also help you to reach
new markets.

7. The Moz Blog
The Moz inbound marketing and
SEO blog provides tips, tricks, and
advice for improving websites and
doing better search, social,
content, and brand marketing.
The company hosts a website that
includes an online community of
more than one million globally
based digital marketers and
marketing related tools.

8. AdvertisingAge
Ad Age is the leading global source of
news, intelligence and conversation for
marketing and media communities.
Today, its content appears in a print
weekly distributed around the world
and on many electronic platforms.
Ad Age's parent company also publishes
Creativity, about the creative process,
which has its own website, featuring
what its editors believe to be the best
video, print, and interactive ads.

9. CMO
Is a blog-publishing service that allows
multi-user blogs with time-stamped
entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs,
which was bought by Google in 2003. The
domain publishings will be redirected to
the custom domain. Blogger allowed users
to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All
such blogs had (or still have) to be moved
to Google's own servers

10. Entertainment Blogs
Is a discussion or informational
site published on the World
Wide Web consisting of discrete
entries ("posts") typically
displayed in reverse
chronological order (the most
recent post appears first). Until
2009, blogs were usually the
work of a single
individual[citation needed],
occasionally of a small group,
and often covered a single
subject.

11. TMZ
Celebrity Gossip and Entertainment News,
Covering Celebrity News and Hollywood
Rumors.
The TMZ Live television and Internet
programs review stories that TMZ is
covering on the website, and at times,
features live interviews (most of which are
conducted through webcam conferencing)
as well as viewer opinions via Twitter,
telephone and video chat (including
Skype).

12. VARIETY
Coverage of show-business daily. Offers
headlines, statistics, and reviews, columnists,
box office charts and production charts. It was
one of the first online newspapers to charge for
access when it launched.
Variety is also available as an app on the iPad,
iPhone, Android, Blackberry, and Windows
phone. This app is an interactive content-
driven platform providing entertainment
industry updates on the go.

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14. Web-Based Collaboration
Tools
A team of designers does not
always work in the same office;
you work in distributed groups,
some of you may be working
from home, and clients can be
based all over the world. This is
where collaboration tools come
in - they make it easier and
faster for designers to get
feedback and approve artwork
in a professional manner, and
they come in all sort of forms,
from free Android apps to
Chrome extensions.

15. Google Docs
Create and edit web-based documents, spreadsheets,
and presentations. Store documents online and access
them from any computer
Using the “Comments” function in real time is a great
way to be able to make edits and give and take
feedback about them with the rest of the members of
your team.
Share documents with the “View” function for those
people who you do not want to give login access to,
but want to share information with.
Organize your folders and color code to more easily
find documents across multiple projects in Drive.

16. Linkedin
Manage your professional identity.
Build and engage with your
professional network. Access
knowledge, insights and
opportunities.

18. ExperienceContacts

19.  LinkedIn’s big advantage is that it enables you to establish
high quality profile and it’s a cheap way for recruiters to
find you.
 Another advantage of LinkedIn is that it facilitates you
doing exactly this, without appearing over eager or just
plain weird for what might be construed as corporate
stalking.
 LinkedIn has the advantage of presenting your resume in
a standard, familiar format. All you have to do is ensure it
is error free and contains a good sprinkling of essential
soft skills keywords
 It’s seriously good for helping you to be in the right place
at the right time, no matter where you are in the world, or
when.

20. WordPress
Is a free and open-source
content management system
(CMS) based on PHP and
MySQL.
Create a free website or easily
build a blog. Hundreds of
free, customizable, mobile-
ready designs and themes.
Free hosting and support.