groupware
Shared workspace tools
Groupware is software designed for collaborative work, enabling multiple users to communicate, share files, schedule meetings, and coordinate tasks.
The term emerged in the 1980s as networked computing made real-time collaboration possible.
Email systems, shared calendars, project management tools, and document-editing platforms all qualify as groupware: The team relied on groupware to coordinate across time zones.
Digital written communication
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- messagingSending written digital communications
- videoconferencingRemote visual group communication
- teleconferencingRemote multi-party communication
forum · bulletin · notification · discussion · threaded · calendar · scheduling · whiteboard
Sequential task progression
- sharedHeld in common
- workspaceDesignated area for tasks
- projectPlanned, effortful task
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
coordination · integration · cooperative · joint · unified · collective · enterprise · productivity
User-editable web pages
- blogOnline personal journal
- microblogBrief-post social platform
- crowdsourcingGathering input from masses
- taggingAttaching identifying markers
bookmarking · commenting · feed · profile · community
Digital written communication
- chatInformal verbal exchange
- messagingSending written digital communications
- videoconferencingRemote visual group communication
teleconferencing · forum · bulletin · notification · discussion · threaded · calendar · scheduling · whiteboard · presence
workflow
Sequential task progression
team · coordination · integration · cooperative · joint · unified · collective · enterprise · productivity · coauthoring
wiki
User-editable web pages
- blogOnline personal journal
- microblogBrief-post social platform
- crowdsourcingGathering input from masses
tagging · bookmarking · commenting · feed · profile · community
- Lotus Software