Various services provide tools for collaborative work spaces with features that cater to collaborative work, often allowing users (read collaborators) with varied technical strengths to collaborate on any given idea/project.
A mailing list is perhaps the very first mode of a “one to many” connections, and is readily understood by people who tend to blind carbon copy friends, partners, subscribers. It is however still the most used communication tool that users are accustomed to. But again, this technology is considered very passé or very Web 1.0.
However, mailing lists (read discussion groups/fora) are still considered important to support diverse thematic discourses. There are plenty around –
- Mountain forum holds/supports discourses on sustainable mountain development)
- PPGIS’s primary focus is on for Participatory Geographic Information systems),
- FSN forum facilitates discussion related to food security.
There are plenty others which host their discussion fora or Dgroups.
Wikis and blogs
Wikis and blogs are web-centric tools used for collaboration but each has a set associated audience. Wikis allow confluence where collaborators converge on ideas. Examples of successful wiki based projects include Wikipedia, Wikia, Wikispaces and numerous others.
Blogs
Blogs, in turn are useful tools when chronicling ideas, thoughts or stages of an effort amidst a work group or more and seeking feedback from the same. Typepad, WordPress and Blogger are popular web based platforms that allow users to become publishers.
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