Technology

Technology is a common and necessary component of successful collaborations. As more settings are turning to team projects and distance collaboration, technologies have paved the way to facilitate the collaboration among different sources of team work. From university to industry and even community collaborations, the affordances of technologies has made collaboration across distances much more tenable.

Communication tools

Messenger Apps

Messenger apps are used in collaborative teams to avoid the hassle of email conversations and create group messages among team members.

  • Whatsapp
  • Hangouts
  • Slack

Email

Email conversations are the most conventional tool in collaboration as a starting point. In iterative project updates, team will usually move to faster messenger apps to create more conversation style messages rather than one-to-one or one-to-many messages.

Virtual

One of the most common evolving collaboration practices in the advent of distance learning and virtual workplaces has been virtual collaborations.

  • Zoom
  • Skype
  • Webex

Management tools

One of the many advantages to Trello is the ability to work collaboratively by enabling you to organize and prioritize projects in a flexible way. Its several capabilities include content management, collaborative planning, collaborative writing. It provides great user-friendly interface and its design capabilities invites creative use. It is free to use but does have the a license that can be bought to open up other resources.

Padlet is collaborative platform that allows users to be more productive in their projects. Its many capabilities allows for users to stay atop of projects by managing, creating, and brainstorming ideas - all in one place. Its easy to use platform also invites several other innovative uses and has the advantage of being free with the option to buy a license for a full access to its capabilities.

Smartsheet

Smartsheet is the enterprise tool for businesses and project managers that want to increase effectiveness and achieve more. There are different licenses based on needs and is one of the best consolidated project management tools for collaborative team projects.

Writing tools

G-suite

G-suite is one of the most common used tools for collaborative writing as it has several platforms that allow live editing of documents, presentations, and spreadsheets for team writing. While collaborative writing is its most used service, it also includes a variety of cloud services, messaging systems, and planning to maintain a continuous communication among collaborators.