Lawrence Tech provides you wish a number of virtual collaboration tools to use in your courses. In addition to these tools, you may want to experiment with these virtual work tools as part of your professional development or course development efforts.
AOL Instant Messenger -- P2P and Group Communication (free) AskMe -- Knowledge Management BaseCamp (37 Signals) -- Project Management and Group Communication (free trial) Commence -- CRM, Sales, Marketing, and Contact Management BlogCity -- Blogging Tool (free) Connectcenter -- Collaboration Suite Convoq -- Web Conferencing Convene -- Web Collaboration from Southfield-based Creative System Dynamics del.icio.us -- Social Bookmarking (free) GoogleBlogger -- Blogging Tool (free) GoogleGroups -- Group Communication (free) GoogleTalk -- VOIP and Group Communication (free) GoToMeeting -- Web Conferencing iCohere -- Communities of Practice InfoWorkSpace -- Web Collaboration Intranets.com -- Hosted Intranets KnowledgeTree -- Open Source Document Management Lotus Symphony -- Online Document Collaboration from IBM (free) Microsoft BizTalk -- Business Process Collaboration Microsoft Live Meeting -- Web Collaboration Microsoft Office Communicator -- Office Suite Collaboration Microsoft Office Live -- Web Conferencing Microsoft OneNote -- Personal Organizer (free to Lawrence Tech students thru MSDN) NiceNet -- Course Delivery System (free) OfficeClip -- Web Office Services Open ext -- Document Management and Collaboration OpenGroupware -- Open Source Collaboration Software (free) Open-Xchange -- Micsoroft Exchange Alternative (free) PBWiki -- Hosted Wiki Tool (free) Polycom -- IP Video Conferencing (free desktop version) Prospero -- Social Networking for Business SalesForce -- Hosted Customer Relationship Management System ScheduleOnce -- Web-based Group Meeting Scheduler (free) Second Life -- Virtual Reality Siemens Teamcenter -- Product Lifecycle Management Skype -- VOIP and Group Communication (free and many plug-ins) SMART Technologies -- Conference Room Systems Socialtext -- Enterprise Social Software Sun Open Work Practice -- Virtual Work Consulting Services Tacit -- Knowledge Management TeamWork Live -- Web Collaboration ThinkFree -- Web Collaboration (free) ThinkTank -- Interactive Meetings Vyew -- Web Collaboration and Online Meetings (free) WebEx WebOffice -- Web Collaboration (trial) WikiSpaces -- Wiki Tool (free and for-fee) WordPress -- Blogging Tool (free) Wrike -- Web-based Project Management and Group Communication Tool (free trial) Yahoo! Groups -- Group Collaboration (free) Yugma -- Web Collaboration (free)
