• The ability to communicate and share ideas (e.g. data, pictures, sound) with another person is an integral part of daily life.
• • The author Stasy Taylor name was clearly shown and the domain as an (.edu) for educational purposes.

  • Asynchrounous Collaboration would be classified as the "everyday" of the three due to emails and text messaging.

• Asynchronous Collaboration

    

  Most organizations use asynchronous collaboration tools that enable the work force to coordinate and share information with each other. Examples include e-mail, discussion groups, information sharing tools, and group calendaring systems. These tools allow people to work together, regardless of whether team members and work products are physically organized [1][2].
• Discussion groups enable teams to confer through threaded discussions, which are available to the team. Information sharing tools such as Web servers and Lotus Notes enable teams to publish information and can provide an interface to share information in corporate directories and databases. Group calendaring systems allow teams to schedule meetings and the necessary resources for the meetings [2][3].

• Synchronous Collaboration

    

  The marketplace for real-time conferencing tools has been very active over the last few years. Real-time collaboration tools take us to the next level of collaboration and provide us with the ability to conduct virtual meetings and share information in real time. Examples include text chatting, audio/video conferencing, and data conferencing through shared whiteboards, and real-time application sharing.

• Integrated Collaboration Environments

    

  The next wave of collaboration technologies emerging into the marketplace is environments that support virtual collocation (organizations), often referred to as “place-based” collaboration environments. These environments integrate people, communications, and shared data, into a shared virtual space. The environment itself is constant, which means that the shared space, shared data, and properties of the collaboration environment do not go away and remain available to support ongoing collaboration. Some key properties of place-based collaboration environments include rich communications (text chat and audio/video conferencing), a shared document store to make documents and other data available to others, customizable virtual spaces to provide the location and context for the collaboration, conference within the collaboration context, and presence awareness so that users are aware of others that are available in the collaborative environment [1]. 

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• Synchronous Tools

   

  Synchronous tools enable real-time communication and collaboration in a "same time-different place" mode. These tools allow people to connect at a single point in time, at the same time. Synchronous tools possess the advantage of being able to engage people instantly and at the same point in time. The primary drawback of synchronous tools is that, by definition, they require same-time participation -different time zones and conflicting schedules can create communication challenges. In addition, they tend to be costly and may require significant bandwidth to be efficient.

  • FaceTime and Skype would be examples of Synchronous that we may use on a daily. This type of collaboration helps with not having to wait for a reply as opposed Asynchronous

• Asynchronous Tools

   

  Asynchronous tools enable communication and collaboration over a period of time through a "different time-different place" mode. These tools allow people to connect together at each person's own convenience and own schedule. Asynchronous tools are useful for sustaining dialogue and collaboration over a period of time and providing people with resources and information that are instantly accessible, day or night. Asynchronous tools possess the advantage of being able to involve people from multiple time zones. In addition, asynchronous tools are helpful in capturing the history of the interactions of a group, allowing for collective knowledge to be more easily shared and distributed. The primary drawback of asynchronous technologies is that they require some discipline to use when used for ongoing communities of practice (e.g., people typically must take the initiative to "login" to participate) and they may feel "impersonal" to those who prefer higher-touch synchronous technologies.

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• • Critical thinking came into mind with this brochure seeing as how I am currently involved in an E-Learning situation myself.

  • Integrated Collaboration is the future of collaborating. Though it does not really apply to the Digital World that much, it;s still great to research about.

• For a glimpse into the future for online collaboration tools, whether in the office or in everyday life, one only has to look at how teenagers are using such tools as instant messaging (IM) and mobile phone based text messaging services (SMS) today.
• A recent AOL study found that 90% of teens and young adults (those ages 20 to 22) use IM, as compared to 70% of 22-34 year-olds, 55% of 35-54 year-olds and 48% of those aged 55 and over.

  • At the bottom of the article they give a cite reference to (Forbes.com)
    
    The .Org extension is for the article bringing awareness to this particular issue.
• At home on a PC, the communications method of choice is instant-messaging programs, such as the free services offered by America Online, Microsoft and Yahoo!.

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• • Content Management is important for an author to keep information updated without having to know the ends and outs of Web Designing.

• A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. Typically, a CMS consists of two elements: the content management application (CMA) and the content delivery application (CDA). The CMA element allows the content manager or author, who may not know Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), to manage the creation, modification, and removal of content from a Web site without needing the expertise of a Webmaster. The CDA element uses and compiles that information to update the Web site. The features of a CMS system vary, but most include Web-based publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search, and retrieval.

    
• A CMS system may also provide tools for one-to-one marketing. One-to-one marketing is the ability of a Web site to tailor its content and advertising to a user's specific characteristics using information provided by the user or gathered by the site (for example, a particular user's page sequence pattern). For example, if you visit a search engine and search for "digital camera," the advertising banners will advertise businesses that sell digital cameras instead of businesses that sell garden products.

  • With a .com extension because it is being used as an informative resource to bring awareness to the future of Content Management Systems.

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• Workflow management is a system of overseeing the process of passing information, documents, and tasks from one employee or machine within a business to another. Through the proper use of this system, each of these employees or machines will pass the work on according to a predetermined procedure. As technology advances, much workflow management has become automated and takes advantage of special software to make the process much smoother.
• By automating many of the processes within a business and establishing a procedure that is consistently followed, unnecessary steps are eliminated, and every member of the team is fully aware of his or her responsibilities.

• This method also makes it easier to track employee and machine performance. When a link in the chain is broken, it is simple to go back and determine where this occurred. In addition, workflow management serves to standardize working methods, ensuring that every employee working on the same level is performing the same function.

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  It also improves customer service. By providing a consistent product or service that is predictable at every level, workflow management allows the customer to feel completely involved in the entire process and capable of getting answers to important questions in a timely fashion. In turn, this can increase company profits, as happy customers come back for repeat business.

  • This article provided great information on the subject of workflow and the Digital world is in the process of speeding up the normal manual Workflow.

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• Online collaboration platforms predate the world wide web and the intranet. They first emerged when the US military created ARPANET for collaboration between scientists and universities. PLATO, developed by students at the University of Illinois, was probably the first platform to include discussion forums (1973) followed by the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) in 1977 specifically designed to support online group work.
  

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• • Companies are now making it easier for their employees to have the social networking experience with the ability to "keep it professional" by being able to collaborate with other employees.
• For personal and business users alike, Twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites are all the rage. And no wonder, considering how easy it is to start using these social networking tools. While many people use Twitter and the like to broadcast what they had for lunch, they can also serve as valuable business tools, particularly when it comes to online collaboration. Social networking lets employees easily communicate with their colleagues, in an engaging and current way.

• 1. CubeTree

  CubeTree

  This tool lets companies build their own social network, which is great for getting colleagues to know each other better in a professional environment. It has wikis, blogs, file sharing, links and more. To create an account, employees need to use their work email address. Once registration is complete, users can invite their co-workers to start building their networks. It is completely web-based and the interface is clean and pleasant to use. Once users create their profiles, they can start sharing information about themselves (it’s even possible to include who they sit next to). Users then follow the colleagues they work with, and can see all of their updates on the feed, a list of everything those being followed are doing on CubeTree.

• 2. Co-Op

  Co-Op

  This is a free application will look very familiar to those who use Twitter, as it borrows its simple interface. It has a stream of updates, which can be used as a ‘virtual watercooler’, helping connect team members or serve as a log of ongoing work. One cool feature of this tool is that it can be used to track time, so the task of filling timesheets becomes much easier at the end of the day. Another useful feature is the display of all of a user’s connections’ latest activities in a single panel, so it’s easy to see what teams are up to during the workday. This tool also comes with an agenda, which displays what users plan to accomplish each day. This makes tasks like project management and scheduling meetings much easier.

• 3. Hashwork

  Hashwork

  One of Hashwork's main functions is to enable employees to engage with their company’s customers via social media. As with other virtual collaboration tools, users need to sign up with their work email address, which proves that they belong to a certain company. Once the sign up process is done, users get their own feeds, where they can post 140-character updates - and like Twitter, can include hashtags to group updates relating to a certain conversation together. Companies on Hashwork have their own communities, which can be followed by anyone. Information can be shared publicly or privately (with only a user’s co-workers, for example). Users can post updates to their feed from Twitter, e-mail or from the web.

  • About.com is a very credible source that I rely on for up to date information on everything that is digital technology.

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• Many enterprise vendors are now adding components such as wikis, blogs, social profiles, tagging and so on as 'features', but... 

   

   

  This approach to software development does not work. The resulting application suites are monolithic, inflexible, not extensible, expensive to scale and are invariably difficult, if not impossible, to integrate with other enterprise technologies. This class of software forces business users to adopt the myopic social visions imagined by the developers, which are nearly identical to their corresponding consumer web implementations. In short, social software is not solving business problems.

   

   

   Aaron also picks up on the need for flexibility and interoperability with existing applications and the crucial differences between consumer oriented social life networking and business focused collaboration networks: 

   

   

  ...information fabric is a federation of content from the multiplicity of data and application silos utilized on a daily basis; such as, ERP, CRM, file servers, email, databases, web-services infrastructures, etc. When you make this information fabric easy to edit between groups of individuals in a dynamic, secure, governed and real-time manner, it creates a Collaborative Network. 

    

  This is very different from social networks or social software, which is focused entirely on enabling conversations. Collaborative Networks are focused on groups accessing and organizing data into actionable formats that enable decision making, collaboration and reuse. Collaborative Networks will increasingly be critically important to business and organizations by helping to establish a culture of innovation and by delivering operational excellence.

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  The point is clear: casual social life organization is very different to working together through deliverables to achieve results. It is this type of organization that justifies budgets...the apparently random chatter around sociable networks is not an attractive proposition in a business scenario on a number of levels.

  • The author Oliver Marks makes himself definitely known on this article by even offering readers a section at the bottom of the page which gives a brief background of his Tech history.

• The next big trend sounds nebulous, but it's not so fuzzy when you view the value proposition from the perspective of IT professionals
• Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is "in the cloud," including conventional outsourcing.

• InfoWorld talked to dozens of vendors, analysts, and IT customers to tease out the various components of cloud computing. Based on those discussions, here's a rough breakdown of what cloud computing is all about:

  1. SaaS
  This type of cloud computing delivers a single application through the browser to thousands of customers using a multitenant architecture. On the customer side, it means no upfront investment in servers or software licensing; on the provider side, with just one app to maintain, costs are low compared to conventional hosting. Salesforce.com is by far the best-known example among enterprise applications, but SaaS is also common for HR apps and has even worked its way up the food chain to ERP, with players such as Workday. And who could have predicted the sudden rise of SaaS "desktop" applications, such as Google Apps and Zoho Office?

  2. Utility computing
  The idea is not new, but this form of cloud computing is getting new life from Amazon.com, Sun, IBM, and others who now offer storage and virtual servers that IT can access on demand. Early enterprise adopters mainly use utility computing for supplemental, non-mission-critical needs, but one day, they may replace parts of the datacenter. Other providers offer solutions that help IT create virtual datacenters from commodity servers, such as 3Tera's AppLogic and Cohesive Flexible Technologies' Elastic Server on Demand. Liquid Computing's LiquidQ offers similar capabilities, enabling IT to stitch together memory, I/O, storage, and computational capacity as a virtualized resource pool available over the network.

  • The author is known and Infoworld.com is also a credible website that updates daily and his current with the Digital World.

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• Synchronizing new product development, supply chain, production and Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO) strategies across Aerospace and Defense (A&D) manufacturers while reducing costs continues to make cloud platforms a viable option in A&D.

• Greater Collaboration, Lower Costs

   

  Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Director Lt. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins Jr. was recently interviewed by Defense News, and his comments reflect what is often heard from aerospace and defense companies as well.  He says a more enterprise-wide approach to managing information systems is needed to break down functional and service-unique barriers of the past to increase collaboration.  He’s also leading the DISA in partnership with the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to attain a 20% cost reduction in his agency, relying in part on cloud computing to reduce costs.  Consolidating down to one e-mail system, virtualizing applications in a hosted environment, and moving capabilities to the cloud are integral to achieving the 20% cost reduction.  Ultimately he sees the DISA becoming a cloud service broker.
• Mobile Device Management (MDM) has moved beyond dashboard support for smartphones and tablets to being integral for product design and managing production.  The two facets of mobility most affecting A&D include designed-in support for situational and battlefield awareness systems including Enhanced Position Location Reporting System (EPLRS) support and increasing reliance on mobility platforms for streamlining production data management including Computer Aided Design (CAD) design files used as part of Bill of Materials (BOM) and work instructions on the shop floor.
• Reducing tooling costs using cloud-based platforms is accelerating.  It is common to find up to 67% of total development cost for a given commercial aerospace contract being attributable to tooling costs alone.  Cloud-based systems have been able to significantly reduce tooling time and costs by saving prior configurations and by being integral to calibrating machine tools on the production floor.

  • I receive most of my general news from Forbes.com , so I trust this website as a credible source. The article was posted just this month on the 15th which makes it more reliable to me.
    
    

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• Cloud computing is the next stage in the Internet's evolution, providing the means through which everything — from computing power to computing infrastructure, applications, business processes to personal collaboration — can be delivered to you as a service wherever and whenever you need.
• Cloud computing has four essential characteristics: elasticity and the ability to scale up and down, self-service provisioning and automatic deprovisioning, application programming interfaces (APIs), billing and metering of service usage in a pay-as-you-go model. (Cloud Computing Characteristics discusses these elements in detail.) This flexibility is what is attracting individuals and businesses to move to the cloud.

  • The "For Dummies" series being as popular as they are already for information on numerous topics is self-explanatory when it comes to credible sources.

• <form mt:asset-id="8120938" class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-photo" style="display: inline;">LedgerTeachers are increasingly using blogs, Twitter, wikis, podcasting, video conferences with students including Isabel Livingston, 11. The class of 6th graders from Sparta Middle School work on their blogs and glogs during their Connections class.</form>First-grader Thomas Tsangaropoulos stands before a laptop during his Spanish class at Lake Parsippany School, smiles broadly into its tiny
• Students are writing on wiki pages, blogging about their classroom activities, recording audio files for band practice, videoconferencing with people around the globe and chatting online about literature
• Many educators say digital technology engages students, shows how what they are studying is relevant to the world around them and helps them retain what they have learned.

  • The author Kristen Alloway is made known at the top of page and is powered NJ.com which is a New Jersey website that sponsors all the newspaper/magazine companies of the state.

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• U.S. News analyzed data from more than 21,000 public high schools to calculate the 2013 Best High Schools rankings.

• With most schools back in session, students in about 600 districts nationwide will return with a new piece of tech: their own personal Apple iPad.

   

  Since the iPad launched last year, some schools have replaced textbooks with E-books. Programs in two thirds of the 600 districts are new for this year; others started these "one-to-one" programs, in which schools provide one iPad for each student, soon after Apple released the tablet in April, 2010.
• Thousands of college lectures, videos, and textbooks are already available on Apple's iTunes U store. Recently, major K-12 textbook manufacturers have started releasing their products electronically as well. Earlier this year, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt released an iPad app for Algebra 1 that combines its standard textbook with interactive content. Similar apps for Algebra 2 and Geometry are forthcoming. Each iPad app costs schools $59.99, a savings of $13 off the company's hardcover textbook.

  • Author's name was clearly shown at the beginning of the article and it was published by U.S. News website.
    
    The website is current and updates daily which leaves room for new information.

• Social media has found a prominent place in the college classroom.

   

  In fact, nearly 80 percent of faculty members are using social media in some way, according to a recent survey of nearly 2,000 college faculty by the Babson Survey Research Group published in April.

      

        

  While some platforms, such as YouTube, have been widely accepted in the classroom, Twitter has been slower to catch on as a teaching tool. In the same survey, only 2 percent of professors reported using the microblogging site—which limits posts to 140 characters—in class.

   
• 1. Creating a personal brand. A motivation for going to college is to prepare for a future in the workplace. But good grades without a strong personal brand may not lead to immediate employment, says Alyssa Hammond, associate director of undergraduate career services and adjunct professor at Bentley University.