Collaboration Affordances

What capabilities does the tools have?

Green ones are from class notes. Section headings are from Class notes.

 

	Zoho Business	Huddle	Central Desktop	Collective X	SOSIUS	Hyper Office	Web Office, Webex	Zimbra Desktop	MS Office Live	Contact Office
Document Sharing Must Have
The ability to write meta comments about documents	X	X	X		??			Note really Doc mgt tool-More designed as emailing tool	X
The ability to track versions	X	X	X		Y				X
The ability to know who has the live document		X	X		Y - Checkout				X
Support for both text and slide show documents	X	X	X(upload)		Y				X
Nice to Have
Integration with an editor	X	X (Zoho Editor)	X		Yes Zoho Editor				X
Collaborative Editing Must Have
Nice to Have
Supports Document revisions/history	X	X	X		if use ms word				X
Supports Annotations/ Comments	X	X	X
Recommended revision			X
Comment about a particular point	X		X
Comment on Section as a whole			X
Scheduling Must Have
With tickler emails or notices	X	X	X		assignments but not events			X	X
Assignment Tracking	X	X	X		Yes				X
With due date	X	X	X		Yes				X
With assignment description		X	X		Yes				X
Ability to task to multiple people	X	X			Yes				X
Basic Assignment Status (Done or Not)	X	X	X		Yes				X
Nice to Have
Ability to see other people's calendars.					No
Ability to note functional dependencies	X				??
Discussion Must Have
Must ID participants	X	X	X		Yes				X
Discussions must be persistent (non-volatile)	X	X	X		Yes				X
Team presence
With multiple threads/discussions available (but recommend using few)	X	X	X		Yes				X
Nice to Have
Personalized profile page (considering a small group)	X	X			Yes
Knowledge Repository Must Have
Ability to comment on bookmarks and information	X	X	X		Wiki				X
Ability to document team knowledge		X			wiki				X
Nice to Have
Abiliity to create team bookmarks	X				Yes - kinda klunky				X
Ability to tag bookmarks and information	X				Every		th		X
Ability to rate bookmarks and information					no				X
Username Management Must Have
Ability to add and remove users	X	X	X		Group owner can add users to groups				X
Nice to have
Mass Import Tool
Hosting (external - internal)					external
Configuration complexity
Standard Templates for quick start
Learning Curve (intuitive, some training, more training)					not intuitive - training would be required to get moving as fast as possible.
* Baby Boomers (dob < 1964)					hard
* Gen X (dob <1982)					medium
* Gen Y (dob > 1982)					medium
Packages
Integration with API		Yes			Yes

 

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