Reviews
By Ann Augustine, About.com Guide
Innovation Management
Innovation management software offer social features like crowdsourcing, social gaming concepts as well as workflow tools to manage and advance development of ideas. Here are choices to help build innovation management into your organization.
- Innovation Management in Enterprise Social Networking
- Brightidea's Private and Public Innovation Platforms
- Icon Crowdsourcing Sites for Generating Ideas
- Imaginatik Facilitates Discovery of Innovation Opportunities
- MindMatters Technologies Guides Innovation Programs Step by Step
- OpenIDEO Innovation Community Sharing Ideas for Social and Environmental Good
Office / Productivity
Applications for file sharing and collaboration, knowledge management, and access to resources help people work more efficiently in teams. Productivity is enhanced when we can access resources from any device or location and often in real time. Here are product reviews, suggestions, and idea to help you and your organization be more productive.
- Asana Workspaces Help Cohesive Teams Be More Productive
- Box for Small Business Collaboration and Productivity
- Clio Law Practice Management Software
- Do by Salesforce Social Productivity App
- Office 365 Team Sites
- SharePoint Document Workspaces
- SpringCM Document Management and Collaboration
- Web Apps and Integration to Share Office Docs
- Team Collaboration in Office 365
- Wiggio for Working in Groups
- Zendesk's New Social Channels for Customer Support Engagement
Online Communities
Our involvement in online communities can make a huge difference to advance causes, business value, and successful outcomes. Here are resources and examples of online communities that drive engagement for internal and external users.
- Types of Online Communities
- 2degrees Sustainable Business Community
- Community Engagement at King Arthur Flour
- Open Learning Community at Autodesk
- Go-To NetApp's Knowledge Sharing Community
- OpenIDEO Innovation Platform for Social Good
- Pinterest Builds on Community Interests
- Scribd Community Offers Launchpad for New Authors and Publishers
- Skillshare's Community Marketplace for Classes and Collaborative Exchange
Project Collaboration
Project management tools have evolved into online project hubs for transparency and real-time collaboration. Here are many resources to help you take advantage of the newest project collaboration tools.
- 5 Productivity Apps for Managing Tasks Online
- 7 Kanban Board Tools for Project Collaboration
- Asana Emphasizes Productivity and Adaptable Workflow
- AtTask Social Collaboration with Project and Portfolio Management
- Basecamp Loop-In with Others
- Binfire Simplifies Rigors of Project Management
- Clinked Wiki-Style Project Collaboration
- Do by Salesforce App Gets Everyone in Sync
- LeanKit Visualizes the Big Picture in Simple to Complex Processes
- Podio's Pre-Built and Build Your Own Project Apps
- Teambox App Centralizes Core Collaboration Apps and File Sharing Services
- Volerro Content Collaboration App for Agile Marketing Teams
- Wiggio for Groups Online Grows into Broad Use of Collaboration Tools
- Wrike's Integrated Project Management and Collaboration App
- 5 Interactive Gantt Charts for Project Teams
Social Sites
Social collaboration can give us many ways to market our products and services, share resources, and help others through collaborative endeavors. Here are specialized social sites to learn about, make yourself visible and share what you know.
- Scribd Social Reading and Publishing
- Skillshare Community-Based Learning and Teaching Marketplace
- Twitter in Business Social Networking
Social Software
Social software is designed to bring collaboration tools into the workplace and create business value around social business, social networking, and community. Here are many social software products that offer choices for your organization’s technology framework.
- 7 Examples of Well-Recognized Social Software
- Acquia's Dynamic Mix for Enterprise Social Software and Web Content Management
- Atlassian Confluence for Teams and Community Spaces
- Bloomfire Knowledge Sharing Tool Builds on Community Collaboration
- Chatter's Social Networking Capabilities
- Igloo Software Defines the Modern Intranet for Secure Document Collaboration
- Jive Software Design for the Workplace
- MindTouch Enterprise Content Management
- Moxie Enterprise Social Software for Creating Collaboration Spaces
- Office 365 Team Collaboration
- Socialtext Keeps On Innovating for the Future of Enterprise Social Software
- SuccessFactors Jam for Business Collaboration and Learning
- Telligent Drives Social Community Software Usability
- XWiki's Notable Collaborative Authoring and Knowledge Sharing Platform
- Yammer for Enterprise Social Networking
Web Conferencing
Web conferencing tools provide voice, video, and collaboration tools for many purposes – elearning, webinars, virtual meetings, web events and presentations. Here are web conferencing tools to help you host and manage web meetings anywhere and on any device.
- 8 Comparable Web Conferencing Tools to Host Webinars, eLearning, and Meetings
- Adobe Connect 9 for Managing and Hosting Web Conferences
- Blackboard Collaborate For Facilitating Virtual Live Collaboration
- Citrix GoToMeeting HDFaces for High Resolution Video Streaming
- Microsoft Lync Online Options for Meetings Anywhere, Anytime
- PGi's GlobalMeet Apps for iPad, Desktop and Mobile
- PGi's iMeet Rooms for Virtual Meetings and Social Sharing
- Saba Real-Time Collaboration Suite for Meetings, Virtual Classes, and Webinars
Wikis
Wiki tools are used often in building knowledge bases, organizing projects, and providing a hub of content sharing tools for group collaboration. Here are wiki tools to help you learn more about wikis and help you get started.