Collaborative teamwork is vital for both the individual and business to be successful in today’s workplace. This aspect is supported greatly or made possible by the collaborative technologies. Here are some of the major collaborative technologies:
Instant messaging and texting is widely used by businesses around the world nowadays. It can be also observed being used extensively by companies in Nepal. Especially by those companies working on projects from different parts of the world. As this system provides a platform for people to send instant messages over a network with tools like Google Hangout, Skype, Asana to name few. Universities can provide a chat room for teachers, students, and other members to communicate and collaborate (Nardi, Whittaker & Bradner, 2000). With the ability to the participants who can communicate at the real-time and clarify any questions or confusions, it makes collaboration better. Also, with people able to refer back to the text anytime to recall what was discussed provides more power.
Shared workspace provides teams an ability to add documents, membership list, news, and announcement and collaborate to edit and update it (Steinfield, Jang & Pfaff, 1999). Often Serious, the previous organization was with makes use of this system with the use of Office365 tools and several others. Primarily, members of different units add document which needs to be processed. Member from the editorial team will make the required update to the document. After which the original posting person, checks if those are acceptable changes or if anything needs to be updated. The editor looks again, this goes on until it’s fully approved after which another independent editing takes a look than to verifies and accept the document to go public or pass it on as a proposal. Team calendar, discussion forum, a shared task can be part of the shared workspace as well which add value to what the team does in a collaborative environment.
Interactive Video is another collaborative tool one can use. This provides all the people involved in the interaction to look at the facial expressions and other nonverbal cues while communicating which couldn’t be done with just text-based or voice-based form of interactions. It can be done with the use of Skype, Viber to name some (Pauleen & Yoong, 2001).
Shared virtual workspace would be the best example for a virtual team to use as a collaborative technology. The workspace would include a mixture of the variety of things starting with the workspace itself where people can check who is doing what, what are the task that is remaining and such. Reporting and the team meetings using a form of video conference can be organized to keep everyone updated on how the project is going and also to clarify confusions. I’ve been involved in the similar working environment to connect all the different physical offices and developers spread around the world. And, it really helped keep track of things and do the needful, all enhancing the performance of the team while collaborating better.
References
Nardi, B., Whittaker, S., & Bradner, E. (2000). Interaction and outeraction. Proceedings Of The 2000 ACM Conference On Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW '00 , 79-88.
Pauleen, D., & Yoong, P. (2001). Facilitating virtual team relationships via Internet and conventional communication channels. Internet Research , 11 (3), 190-202.
Steinfield, C., Jang, C., & Pfaff, B. (1999). Supporting virtual team collaboration. Proceedings Of The International ACM SIGGROUP Conference On Supporting Group Work - GROUP '99 .
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Collaborative teamwork is vital for both the individual and business to be successful in today’s workplace. This aspect is supported greatly or made possible by the collaborative technologies. Here are some of the major collaborative technologies:
Instant messaging and texting is widely used by businesses around the world nowadays. It can be also observed being used extensively by companies in Nepal. Especially by those companies working on projects from different parts of the world. As this system provides a platform for people to send instant messages over a network with tools like Google Hangout, Skype, Asana to name few. Universities can provide a chat room for teachers, students, and other members to communicate and collaborate (Nardi, Whittaker & Bradner, 2000). With the ability to the participants who can communicate at the real-time and clarify any questions or confusions, it makes collaboration better. Also, with people able to refer back to the text anytime to recall what was discussed provides more power.
Shared workspace provides teams an ability to add documents, membership list, news, and announcement and collaborate to edit and update it (Steinfield, Jang & Pfaff, 1999). Often Serious, the previous organization was with makes use of this system with the use of Office365 tools and several others. Primarily, members of different units add document which needs to be processed. Member from the editorial team will make the required update to the document. After which the original posting person, checks if those are acceptable changes or if anything needs to be updated. The editor looks again, this goes on until it’s fully approved after which another independent editing takes a look than to verifies and accept the document to go public or pass it on as a proposal. Team calendar, discussion forum, a shared task can be part of the shared workspace as well which add value to what the team does in a collaborative environment.
Interactive Video is another collaborative tool one can use. This provides all the people involved in the interaction to look at the facial expressions and other nonverbal cues while communicating which couldn’t be done with just text-based or voice-based form of interactions. It can be done with the use of Skype, Viber to name some (Pauleen & Yoong, 2001).
Shared virtual workspace would be the best example for a virtual team to use as a collaborative technology. The workspace would include a mixture of the variety of things starting with the workspace itself where people can check who is doing what, what are the task that is remaining and such. Reporting and the team meetings using a form of video conference can be organized to keep everyone updated on how the project is going and also to clarify confusions. I’ve been involved in the similar working environment to connect all the different physical offices and developers spread around the world. And, it really helped keep track of things and do the needful, all enhancing the performance of the team while collaborating better.
References
Nardi, B., Whittaker, S., & Bradner, E. (2000). Interaction and outeraction. Proceedings Of The 2000 ACM Conference On Computer Supported Cooperative Work - CSCW '00 , 79-88.
Pauleen, D., & Yoong, P. (2001). Facilitating virtual team relationships via Internet and conventional communication channels. Internet Research , 11 (3), 190-202.
Steinfield, C., Jang, C., & Pfaff, B. (1999). Supporting virtual team collaboration. Proceedings Of The International ACM SIGGROUP Conference On Supporting Group Work - GROUP '99 .