There are many great examples of governments taking the initiative to share their public data openly. It’s not a simple matter of just put it online – in order to be useful to people, the data must be (1) appropriate types of data; (2) available in usable formats; (3) owned and maintained by someone – [...]
Posts Tagged ‘collaboration’
Open Data Initiatives
Posted: September 29, 2009 in Gov 2.0, Uncategorized, web 2.0Tags: collaboration, community, Gov 2.0, government 2.0, open data, opendata, sharing
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It’s Yammer Time
Posted: January 29, 2009 in microbloggingTags: collaboration, group messaging, instant messaging
Yammer is a tool for helping companies and organizations to be more productive through the exchange of short frequent messages. It functions similar to an instant messaging client, however messages are visible to an entire group of participants, rather than sent as bilateral exchanges between two participants only. Access to a Yammer group is limited [...]
“VoiceThread” Collaboration Tool
Posted: November 24, 2008 in web 2.0Tags: collaboration, mixed media, online, video
I stumbled across a very neat collaboration tool called VoiceThread, that allows you to co-create presentations with others using various media sources, and invite discussion about the presentation through multiple channels. VoiceThread allows you to create a web-based presentation or story, using images, videos, documents, or powerpoint presentations (or a mix of these) with voice-over options. [...]
