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Online Collaboration

Online collaboration is a way of contributing or cooperating to a project thanks to web tools on the web space with a group of persons. The aim of this collaboration is to create a set of tasks or project that can be either private or public. This collaboration can be used for business purposes with the involvement of employees from the same company. This tools can also be useful for student project: workgroup, classmates and/or professors can use it to collaborate. The same goes for personal project with friends, family, community, or people that has commun interests. The online collaboration tools are much used nowadays thanks to technology’s popularization, this method gives the opportunity to contribute to a same project in real time without meeting each other.

Online collaboration at work. I have been using several social network sites and platforms to share ideas and tasks during my internships. Indeed, I was working on platforms as Hootsuite : the manager used to share tasks with other employees, but also, Google Drive for researches, ideas and event organisation. In the academic setting, I have been using Prezi and Google Drive (Google Slides, Google Docs…) to share tasks and create a value added presentation that anyone can improve by their knowledge and their skills. The teachers can also have a look on the project progress during their free time and try to help us to not go off-topic.

The benefits of using collaboration tools are:

The access in real time of a shared workspace enables people who wants to know the stage of a project, in particular, the manager. In addition, internet can be accessible very easily by co-workers during the day, even if they are not at their office, nobody is impacted by their geographical position or their time lag (teleworking, international company…). The information is available to the whole team 24/7.
 * Easy and speed access of a commun work:

The performance and innovation in a company are crucial to achieve their objectives. According to a recent study by the firm Frost & Sullivan, the collaborative work and the technological tools associated (web, platforms, electronic exchanges) increase the global performance of companies of 36% and it increase the innovation of 30%. Dyer and Reeves (1995) suggest 4 indicators to performance : Human ressources results (absenteeism, turn-over..) Organizational results as productivity, quality services/goods Financial results Market efficiency The online collaboration can play a key role for the human ressources results, indeed, people will manage their work through a collaborative platform, and improve their organizational skills and their productivity by saving time and reduce the decision making procedure.
 * Performance and innovation improvement:

According to Lévy P. the collective intelligence is a form of universally distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, coordinated in real time, and resulting in the effective mobilization of skills.The collective intelligence is the capacity of each human to collaborate in an intellectual level to create innovate and invent. Each of us can edit, enriching a conversation and producing while leaving the possibility to other people to change and improve a knowledge text, page or platform.
 * Collective intelligence