The use of collaboration technologies is an increasing process in businesses in today's world. In today's business environment there are ways to communicate with one another that weren't around 10 years ago. A few examples include:
- Facebook
- Twitter
- Wikis
- Blogs
Facebook and Twitter are great social networking sites to stay connected with friends or follow your favorite celebrities, but businesses have begun using these technologies immensely to provide a communication medium among employees. Most people think blogs are just used as a place to post pictures and write about your whats going on in your life, but they can also be used for customer service or advertising new products. Doing our group collaboration project on wikis educated me that there are much more to wikis than just Wikipedia. Wikis are often used for project management, and they allow for people to edit and add notes or notices to the project as long as they have internet access. (Lynch, 2008) The great thing about collaboration technologies is that they allow you to be in different places and still be able to communicate with employees in your company.
The knowledge of collaboration technologies is necessary to succeed in the business world today. As you can see the use of a collaboration technology increases communication skills and productivity within a company. (Chiu, 2009) There are many more collaboration technologies other than the ones that were discussed today such as: Instant Messaging, Text Messaging, LinkedIN, and Google Docs. The use of the technologies discussed today will provide companies with tools that allow for great communication across computers both externally and internally.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156066/seven_tips_to_success_with_a_corporate_wiki.html
http://www.architechweb.com/tabid/171/ArticleID/8904/Default.aspx
No comments:
Post a Comment