Tools
By tools we mean websites or software that can be used to support personal and group knowledge sharing. Often tools are used with methods.
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- (Les blogs - same page in French)
- Calendars
- Les calendriers (Calendars/Français/French) (needs more content)
- Seasonal calendars
- Les calendriers saisonniers (Seasonal calendars/Français/French)
- QiqoChat has a free group calendar tool where anyone can post information about any upcoming event. The tool also makes it very simple to schedule a new audio/video chat on any topic for group members. Notifications go out to all members of the group.
- Chats - see Instant Messengers
- Collaborative Workspaces (See Content Management System, Intranets, and Online Collaboration Platforms)
- Collaborative Workspaces You Might Use
- HyperOffice Collaboration Suite - an integrated communication, collaboration and mobility suite in the cloud
- Google Apps - Google's suite of web based communication, collaboration and productivity suite
- Office 365 - Web based counterpart of MS SharePoint, Exchange and Lync Server
- Executable English - a web platform for socially writing database Q/A apps that explain their answers.
- Collaborative Workspaces You Might Use
- Content - sharing and using creative content on the web (This might also be a method?)
- Content Management System (or CMS) (See also Intranets) (This page has not been created yet)
- CMS you might use
- Data / Information Visualization Tools
- Discussion Forums (including email lists)
- Discussion Forums and Email Lists You Might Use
- DGroups - a hosted forum service with email list and web storage of messages, files and member directory. Intended for international development. You must belong to a member organization or be sponsored by one of those organizations to get a DGroup. We also have a page here on the wiki to share your experiences with DGroups.
- Google Groups - Free, ad supported forum with full email capability, web pages
- Yahoo Groups - Free, ad supported forum with full email capability, member directory, file storage, web pages and simple polls
- OnlineGroups.Net (http://onlinegroups.net) provides email lists with a web forum interface that support file-sharing and chat. Groups are on their own website with no ads. Sites with only public groups are free.
- GroupServer (http://groupserver.org), the software that powers OnlineGroups.Net is available free and open source.
- QiqoChat has a new tool for group conversations which works both online and via email. The tool feels like a more live version of a discussion forum, because you can see new responses streaming in. Responses are usually shorter than standard email threads, because it makes it simple to break up long replies when they contain several separate ideas. This enables the conversation to go in-depth while remaining structured.
- Discussion Forums and Email Lists You Might Use
- Email (needs content) (see Discussion Forumsfor information on email lists)
- Directives email (Email Francais/French)
- MailChimp (English) - Free. Helps you design email newsletters, share them on social networks, integrate with services you already use, and track your results. It's like your own personal publishing platform. Support video (Spanish).
- Embedding External Content into a site (This page has not been created yet. Is it also syndication? Widgets?)
- Expertise Locator Systems (See Yellow Pages)
- Expert Systems
- Extranet
- File Libraries and File Sharing
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Google Drive
- Instant Messengers
- La messagerie instantanée (Instant Messengers/Français/French)
- Intranets
- Intranet (Français/French) (needs to be created)
- Language Translation Technologies
- Learning Management Systems
- Sistemas de Gestión del Aprendizaje
- LMSs You Might Use
- Low Bandwidth Tools
- Mashups (not yet created)
- Microblogging(Twitter/Jaiku)
- Les microblogging (Microblogs/Français/French)
- Mindmapping
- Les cartes cognitives (Mindmapping/French/Francais)
- Mobile Phones
- La téléphonie mobile (Mobile phones/Français/French) (needs to be created)
- Cell Phone Films
- Newsletters (more content needed)
- Les bulletins d'information (Newsletters/Français/French) (needs to be created)
- QiqoChat has a group newsletter tool where all members of a group/circle can share one link per week, and the newsletter goes out every Monday.
- Online Collaboration Platforms
- Online Surveys
- Personal Home Pages (iGoogle, Netvibes, etc.)
- Photo Sharing
- Partage de photos (Photo Sharing/Français/French)
- Photo Sharing Tools You Might Use
- Podcasting
- Le podcasting (Podcasting/Français/French)
- Audio Recording Face to Face Events
- Resource Centers (also listed under methods)
- RSS
- Le fil RSS (RSS/Français/French)
- Using Newsreader software (a.k.a. Aggregator software)
- Agrégateurs RSS (Aggregator software/Français/French)
- Rural Radio
- Les radios rurales (Rural Radio/Français/French)
- Shared Spreadsheets
- Skype (see comparison between Skype and Google Talk )
- Slide Shows
- Prezzi (English/Spanish) - Cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world between whiteboards and slides.
- Social Media
- Social Networking Sites
- Social Network Analysis
- Social Reporting
- Social Search
- Survey and Data Collection Tools
- Statistics from our Tools
- Synchronous Web Meeting Tools (see WebMeeting Tools)
- Syndication of content
- Tagging/Social Bookmarking
- Tagging/SB Services You Might Use
- Diigo
- Telephone
- Templates or checklists (content needed)
- Les canevas ou listes de contrôle (Templates or checklists/Français/French) (content needed)
- Twitter (see Microblogging)
- Usability (of tools)
- Video
- La video
- Participatory video
- How to Produce a Storymercial
- Post-Production
- Cell Phone Films
- Camtasia Studio - Software applications for creating video tutorials and presentations (screen video capture).
- QiqoChat has a tool for live video chat with breakout rooms.
- Voice Over IP (VoIP)
- Voix par IP et chat vocal (Voice Over IP/Français/French)
- Skype
- Google Talk (see comparison between Google Talk and Skype )
- QiqoChat has a tool for group VoIP chats (called events), including breakout rooms.
- Web Trails (such as Trailfire and PMOG)
- Webcast
- WebMeeting Tools
- Websites(or Web Pages)
- Les sites web (Websites/Français/French)
- Widgets
- Wikis
- Wikispaces
- Mediawiki (Page needs to be created)
- Google Sites
- EtherPad is an open source tool for collaborative notetaking. Many people can edit a document at the same time and see each other typing character by character.
- QiqoChat has EtherPad embedded into its live events, written, conversations, and blog posts, so that participants can collaborate on writing notes.
- Yammer
- Yellow Pages
- L'annuaire (Yellow pages/White Pages/Staff Directories/Français/French) (needs to be created)