Collaboration Sites

NEW: You can find some excellent examples of online groups sites at the OnlineGroups.Net sites page.

People in an organisation usually have some kind of shared information system. A "G:" drive perhaps, where they can share files. They provide little sense of place, are often semi-organised at best but at least everyone can get to them. People in different organisations don't even have that.

A shared files area, if you have one, is great for documents but they don't support discussion. Email is supposed to do that, but does it? Email is fantastic for one to one communication and, as we all know, great for one to many, but as a medium for ongoing group conversations, for many to many interaction, it's not very good. People quickly get overwhelmed with email. It is a headache to manage and the more people in a group, the more people there are managing the same email, carefully sorting through it and putting it into folders where nobody else can find it.

Not only can nobody else in the group find it, but nobody else in the organisation has any idea that it's there. The ideas or information in those emails are invisible to anyone who doesn't get bombarded with it. The potential in those emails for reducing duplication, for stopping things falling through gaps or for causing happy knowledge accidents is zero.

GroupSense Collaboration Sites are custom-designed online 'places' where people can work, learn and share knowledge together easily in groups, communities and organisations.

Each Collaboration Site is a virtual space that is designed to meet the requirements of the specific group/s that will use it.

GroupSense Collaboration Sites are built using GroupServer, a Collaboration Server that provides an information system or extranet for distributed groups and organisations.

Collaboration Sites have an area in a secure website where people can share files and other information in groups. GroupSense Collaboration Sites also enable people to use email as a group communication medium. They have many other features that enhance collaboration.

One example of a GroupSense Collaboration Site is the Online Groups site. You can log in there and have a look around. If you would like to have a group, or group of groups there, please contact GroupSense .