Collaboration Software Tools
- Overview
With a digital workplace, employees (or team members) get access to a complete set of digital tools that they can use to manage and execute their everyday work. It is a unified platform that integrates all the core business applications and in turn, it helps employees (or team members) communicate and collaborate in a better way.
It is also able to imbibe a strong sense of work culture and community in organizations as leaders are forced to take into account the latest workplace demands, variables, and trends.
Digital workplace technologies are tools and platforms that enable employees (or team members) to work remotely and collaborate with each other. Some examples of digital workplace technologies include:
- Communication tools: Email, instant messaging, and employee communication apps
- Collaboration tools: Google Docs, Quip, Slack, MS Teams, Yammer, and Jive
- Project management tools: Jira, Asana, and Trello
- Video conferencing tools: Zoom, Go2Meeting, Citrix, and Microsoft
- Cloud storage: Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive
- Virtual assistants: Can answer questions, find information, and schedule meetings
- Security tools: Protect against cyberattacks
- Analytics tools: Turn data into actionable insights
- RPA: Automates repetitive tasks like data entry and invoice processing
- Workflow automation: Integrates systems and tools to make it easier to share data
When used effectively, digital workplace technologies can improve employee (or team member) experience, productivity, and work life quality. They can also help businesses increase revenue, accelerate innovation, and enhance security and compliance.
- Collaborative Software Tools
The following collaborative software tools are used to support collaboration and virtual organizing among EITA team members around the world:
Software |
Functions |
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Plone CMS |
Plone CMS, Open source Content Management System (CMS), is a web application designed to make it easy for non-technical users to add, edit and manage a website. |
EasyChair Conference System | EasyChair is flexible, easy to use, and has many features to make it suitable for various conference models. |
Connect people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. | |
Manage your professional identity, build and engage with your professional network, Accesses knowledge, insights and opportunities. | |
Google Search Engine |
Search the world's information, including webpages, images, videos and more. |
Gmail: E-mail from Google |
Talk, chat, share, schedule, store, organize, collaborate, discover, and
create. Use Google products from Gmail to Google+ to YouTube, view your
search history, all with one username and password, all backed up all
the time and easy to find at (you guessed it) Google.com. |
Google Maps | Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions. |
Google Earth | Let you fly anywhere on Earth to
view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in
outer space to the canyons of the ocean. |
Google Drive |
Create new documents, spreadsheets, and presentations on your own or share and collaborate with others in real time. Online collaboration tools, like Google Drive, are also very useful for
getting virtual team members to work together real-time, instead of
passing documents back and forth. |
Google Translate | Google Translate is a web and mobile-based translation tool that allows users to translate text, speech, images, and documents into over 100 languages. It uses a neural machine translation engine to provide translations, offering a wide range of features including offline translation, real-time conversation translation, and translation within other apps. |
Worldatlas | An educational resource for world maps, atlases, and in-depth geography information. |
The Weather Channel |
The Weather Channel can show you local weather for thousands of cities around the world. You can even find local weather for every US ZIP code by State. |
Time and Date | Find current Time Worldwide (World Clock) and Calendars for countries worldwide both online and for printing. |
Eventbrite - Online Event Registration |
Eventbrite is an online ticketing service that allows event organizers
to plan, set up ticket sales and promote events and publish them across
Facebook, Twitter and other social-networking tools directly from the
site's interface. |
Nametag Creator |
Instructions: Enter each name as a new line in the box. You should be
able to do a big batch of participants with copying rows of one column
in excel file and paste it into the text box. The first nametag will be
created with the first line of Firstname, first line of Lastname, first
line of Affiliation (and repeated for all lines). You don't need last
name if you paste the full name in first name. It will skip if there are
nothing in that line, so as long as the rows are same length from where
you copy, the names and affiliation will be aligned even with missing
data. |
The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) | GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software, you can change its source code and distribute your changes. Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins. Gimp Quickies - Changing the Size (Dimensions) of an Image (Scale). |
TinyURL.com | TinyURL is a free service to make posting long URLs easier, and may only be used for actual URLs. |
Zoom | Zoom is a cloud-based video conferencing platform that can be used for video conferencing meetings, audio conferencing, webinars, meeting recordings, and live chat. |