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ePals provides safe student collaboration tools: Yesterday, I had the opportunity to speak with Ed Fish, CEO of ePals Corporation. I first heard about ePals through Intel, who recently announced that they would provide hooks to ePals' services on their Classmate PCs. While it's easy to describe ePals as "the world's largest social network...; Tags: Collaboration, Mr., Collaboration Tool, Classroom, Teacher, Tool, ePals, Productivity, Social Networking, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Christopher Dawson; Blog posts 2008-05-06
National Lender Improves Collaboration Tools With Integrated Communications Solution: Infonavit is an autonomous government organization that provides home loans for workers in Mexico. Infonavit employees need to collaborate frequently, but some existing communications methods are time-consuming. As a result, the company is implementing a unified communications strategy based on Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007. The company will deliver integrated...; Tags: Lender, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., PBX, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Infonavit, Telephony, VOIP, Groupware, Networking, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-10-01
Cancer Researchers Accelerate Pace of Discovery With Contextual Collaboration Tools: Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute wanted to attach research findings to two-dimensional and three-dimensional molecular images and share them with others. They turned to InterKnowlogy, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, which used Microsoft software to create an image annotation tool linked to a data-sharing portal with built-in search capabilities....; Tags: Researcher, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Productivity, Portals, Business Structures, Groupware, Internet, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-09-01
Engineering and Project Delivery Firm Delivers Global Capabilities With Microsoft Collaboration Tools: Sinclair Knight Merz, a leading engineering and project delivery firm, was growing rapidly in revenues, staff numbers and locations around the world and sought to deliver outstanding client service. Over several years, the company implemented a full suite of Microsoft collaboration, server and management tools. Staff can now collaborate and...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Groupware, Productivity, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Case studies 2007-08-01
FAA to Create Safety Training Tools 75 Percent Faster With New Collaboration Tools: The Federal Aviation Administration FAA is responsible for moving air traffic safely and efficiently in the United States. When an incident occurs on a runway, the Air Traffic Organization ATO division of the FAA re-creates the event in digital animation format. Each animation can take up to 12 weeks to...; Tags: FAA, Collaboration, Animation, Microsoft Corp., Training, Collaboration Tool, Tool; Case studies 2007-01-01

A Framework for Building Collaboration Tools by Leveraging Industrial Components: Groupware applications allow a distributed group of human users to work apart together over a computer network. They are difficult to develop due to the needs to suit a range of collaboration tasks that are often with diverse and evolutionary requirements. To address this problem, this paper proposes a new...; Tags: Collaboration, Component, Texas A&M University, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Groupware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-08-17
A Review of Team Collaboration Tools for Crisis Response in the Military and Government: The military operates today both administratively and tactically using collaboration tools. The purpose of this paper is to explore the recent past and current status of collaboration tools use in order to provide recommendations for the future with respect to crisis reaction. Two methods, ad hoc research and systematic document...; Tags: Team, Collaboration, Government, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Military, Groupware, Productivity, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2006-06-20
Images: Counting on WikiCalc: Open-source, browser-based collaboration tool mimics functionality of a spreadsheet while leveraging the technology of wikis.; Tags: mimic, collaboration, collaboration tool, Web browser, Wiki, open source, tool, spreadsheet; Image galleries 2006-02-17
Images: Counting on WikiCalc: Open-source, browser-based collaboration tool mimics functionality of a spreadsheet while leveraging the technology of wikis.; Tags: mimic, collaboration, collaboration tool, Web browser, Wiki, open source, tool, spreadsheet; Image galleries 2006-02-17
Cellular Phone as a Collaboration Tool That Empowers and Changes the Way of Mobile Work: Focus on Three Fields of Work: The development and spread of cellular phones have been remarkable in recent years, and these phones are becoming an integral part of the social infrastructure. Owing to mobile technology, especially cellular phone technology, the way of working that entails being unconstrained by time and space has flourished. Cellular phones were...; Tags: Phone, Collaboration, Mobile, Cell Phone, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Cellular Phones, Telecom & Utilities, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; White papers 2005-09-18
Wiki while you work: Collaboration tool allows users to create and edit Web page contentLearn about the corporate wiki, an editable Web site designed for quick and easy group project management.; Tags: Channel management, Groupware, Wiki, collaboration tool; Videos 2005-08-11
Managing Virtual Projects: A Benchmark Study of Collaboration Tools: The role of projects in the organization changed from the early days of simple projects for managing specific tasks to today's matrix organisations with complex projects for cross-unit coordination. Such virtual projects are a new form which intensively relies on IT technologies for team communication and coordination. This paper provides...; Tags: Project, Collaboration, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Productivity, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers 2005-06-18
Using VRML and Collaboration Tools to Enhance Feedback and Analysis of Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) Exercises: Military training exercises using Distributed Interactive Simulation DIS are often recorded and played back so trainees can visualize the 3D exercise and receive feedback in the form of an After Action Review AAR. This paper discusses the capability of converting DIS exercises into virtual worlds accessible over the Internet using...; Tags: Collaboration, Collaboration Tool, VRML, Analysis, Tool, Virtual Reality, Scripting Languages, Emerging Technologies, Software/Web Development, Web Development; White papers 2005-02-03
Microsoft shares collaboration tools: Microsoft shares collaboration toolsAnchorDesk's David Coursey checks out the software giant's Windows SharePoint Services, examining the collaboration product's teamwork and productivity features.; Tags: Groupware, PRODUCTIVITY, collaboration, collaboration tool, tool, Anchordesk, Microsoft Corp.; Videos 2003-06-02
Nonprofit Group Uses Desktop Collaboration Tools to Improve Program Delivery: Based in Battle Creek, Michigan, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a nonprofit organization with approximately 200 employees. Kellogg Foundation workers in remote communities had difficulty communicating and collaborating with other employees, grantees, head office staffers, and partners, reducing efficient workflow. The foundation deployed a communication and collaboration solution based on...; Tags: Desktop, Collaboration, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Groupware, Servers, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware; Case studies
Citadon Web Collaboration Tools Help Mustang Engineering Shorten Time-to-Completion for Projects: Mustang Engineering provides engineering design, management, and consulting services for some of the most sophisticated upstream oil and gas structures, processing plants, midstream, pipelines and automation and control projects. The challenge facing Mustang is understanding the best approach to manage document processing and data flow, making sure that all the...; Tags: Citadon, Collaboration Tool, Tool, Mustang Engineering, Document Management, Content Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance; Case studies
3 Health Agencies Choose Collaboration Tool: Collaboration solutions provider SiteScape has won contracts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, National Institutes of Health NIH and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences NIEHS. The three government health agencies have contracted out a combined total of $1.0 million to deploy SiteScape Enterprise Forum, the company's...; Tags: Collaboration, Health Care, Collaboration Tool, Tool, SiteScape, Vertical Industries, Groupware, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources; Case studies
IT Service Provider Enhances Employee Productivity With New Collaboration Tools: Responsible for delivering IT services to AXA Group companies, AXA Tech employs 2,200 people, operates in 11 countries, and has an annual budget of ?600 million (U.S.$755 million). To increase collaboration between employees all over the world, reduce travel expenses, and provide access to the latest project documents, the company...; Tags: Collaboration, Information Technology, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Microsoft Office, Corporate Communications, Groupware, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Enterprise Software; Case studies
Healthcare IT Provider Uses Collaboration Tools to Improve Communication, Save Money: Cerner Corporation develops IT solutions for healthcare facilities. The company's solutions help hospitals integrate technology and digitize records. To connect with its dispersed associate base and train its growing number of clients, the company relies on collaborative technology for training sessions, customer demos, and internal meetings. The company recently deployed...; Tags: Collaboration, Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Collaboration Tool, Tool, Microsoft Office, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Human Resources; Case studies
Evolution of the Remote Collaboration Tool: A Continuing Process: Over the past six years, the authors have been developing a tool that can be used to enhance collaboration between persons who are not co-located in time and/or space. The package, now named Remote Collaboration Tool, was originally designed to enhance online learning. It has been used to augment learning...; Tags: Collaboration, Public Health, Collaboration Tool, Tool, University Of California, Productivity, Healthcare, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software; White papers