Chapter 5 Flashcards
Collaboration
Two or more people working together to achieve a common goal
Virtual Teams
Comprimised of members from different geographic areas assembled as needed to collaborate on a certain project
Virtual Meetings
Meetings using an online environment
Web 2.0
Changes in technology that have enabled new users of the web; dynamic web applications, that allow people to collaborate and share information online
Web API
- Application Programming Interfaces
- Provides a way for different components of software to interact and exchange data or functionality using common Web communication protocols
Mashups
A new application that uses data from one or more service providers
Social Media/Social Software
Allowing people to communicate, interact, and collaborate in various ways
Collective Intelligence
Based on the notion that distributed groups of people with a divergent range of information and expertise will be able to outperform the capabilities of individual experts, as demonstrated by the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia
Semantic Web
Set of design principles that will allow computers to be able to better index Web Sites, topics, and subjects
Web 3.0
- Centered around mobility
- ## Contextual Web
Enterprise 2.0
The use of social media within a company’s boundaries or between a company and its customers or stakeholders can help in sharing organizational knowledge, making business more innovative and productive
Synchronous
- At the same time
- Telephone calls, chatting online
Asynchronous
- Not coordinated in time
Groupware
Refers to a class of software that enables people to work together more effectively
Groupware Two Dimension
- Whether the system supports groups working together at the same time or at different times
- Whether the system supports groups working together face-to face or distributed
Discussion Forums
Emulate bulletin boards and allow for threaded diicussions between participants
Electronic Meeting Systems (EMS)
A collection of personal computers networked together with sophisticated software tools to help group members solve problems and make decisions through interactive electronic idea generation, evaluation, and voting
Desktop Videoconferencing
Been enabled by the growing power of processors powering personal computers and faster Internet connections
Webcam
Small video camera that is connected directly to a PC
Intranet
Private network using Web technologies, used to facilitate the secured transmission of proprietary information within an organization
Enterprise Search Engines
Designed to retrieve content from various internal data sources, including documents, databases, or applications linked to the company’s intranet
Employee Portals
Enabling employee self-service for administering benefits, managing retirement plans or other human resources-based applications through employee portals
Blogging
The process of creating online text diary made up of chronological entries that comment on everything from one’s everyday life to wine and food
“Amateurization of Journalism”
Some bloggers cut journalistic corners, rendering some of the posts on the blogs less than accurate
