Elements of Collaboration Tool

August 3, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Online Collaboration Tools (36)

Mindquarry (an Open Source Collaborative Software Supplier ) have developed a visual resource: Periodic Table of Collaboration covering 60+ elements over 4 categories: People (Roles), Productivity Software, Collaborative Software and Methods.

The explanations are not in depth but nevertheless still useful.

Its not claiming to be comprehensive topicwise but it’s a neat idea and is a good way to lead someone new into the broad and constantly growing field of Collaboration.

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Cool! I’ve bookmarked this post. I remembered in my earlier post in my own blog that just recently some Universities required students taking computer-related courses to have Chemistry units. I was able to gather some reasons why and now your post is one fun way to collaborate Chemistry and Computer courses.

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Bioteams Books Reviews

The Cult of the Amateur

August 27, 2007 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Read this book if your future is anyway connected to Web2.0. Andrew Keen’s central thesis is that if all content (e.g. music, video, news, books, encyclopaedias) is produced by “amateurs” and no-one will pay for “professional” versions then its curtains for quality or independent publishing.

Buy it now from:
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Amazon.Co.UK

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