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Technologies currently in use |
Tools likely to be used more in 5 years time |
| ASYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION |
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| Blogs |
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| E-mail |
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| Microblogging (e.g. Twitter) |
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| Online Forums / Threaded discussions |
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| Personal Portals (e.g. iGoogle) |
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| Podcasts |
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| RSS feeds |
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| Shared Calendars / Meeting Scheduling (e.g. Doodle) |
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| SMS / MMS |
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| Social Networking Utilities (e.g. Facebook, MySpace) |
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| Vidcasts |
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| Voicemail |
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| Webinars |
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| Website |
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| Wikis |
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| SYNCHRONOUS COMMUNICATION |
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| Chatrooms |
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| Instant messaging (e.g. ICQ, MSN) |
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| Online forums (eg Eluminate) |
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| Shared Whiteboards |
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| Teleconferencing |
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| Telephone |
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| Video Conferencing |
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| Virtual workspaces |
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| Voice-over IP (e.g. Skype) |
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| RESEARCH TOOLS |
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| Citations/References (e.g. Endnote, Zotero) |
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| News Sharing (e.g. DIGG) |
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| Notification Services (e.g. Google Reader) |
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| Online databases or directories |
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| Search Engines (e.g. Google) |
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| Social Bookmarking (e.g. del.icio.us) |
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| Web Annotations (e.g. Diigo) |
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| DOCUMENT SHARING & MANAGEMENT |
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| Document Repositories / Management Systems |
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| Document Sharing (e.g. Google Docs, Google Apps) |
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| Grid/Cloud Computing |
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| Learning Management System |
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| Sharing Geographic Content (e.g. GoogleMaps) |
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| Sharing Image Content (e.g. Flickr) |
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| Sharing Presentation Content (e.g. Slideshare) |
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| Sharing Textual Documents (e.g. GoogleDocs) |
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| Video Sharing (e.g. YouTube, TeacherTube) |
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| OTHER |
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| Password Management (e.g. OpenID) |
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