Those who think that Facebook is just for giving that friend a poke and sharing photos of last weekend’s party might not expect the more serious possibilities that Facebook might offer. With tens of thousands of Facebook apps created by 3rd party developers, it isn’t amazing to see some of them being dedicated to online collaboration. We picked a few of the most interesting ones for you to highlight.
Although FaceBook now offers their own in-built chat, it’s not the handiest way of communicating to a group of friends or colleagues. In comes the Chat Rooms application, which allows you to start group conversations within Facebook. So why have your meeting through a third party tool where you have to explain how to get the application to work when you can just invite your friends to a chat right inside Facebook?!
Having a tough time getting your team on the same page? MyOffice lets you quickly and easily collaborate with your colleagues, partners, or clients on one or multiple projects. Allowing you to organize events, schedule meetings, discuss ideas, and much more. This online collaboration suite is fully integrated in Facebook and ideal for companies, organizations, and other individuals in the need to organize a group of people.
Even students (the original target audience for Facebook) can find their fair share of online collaboration applications. A few of them stood out, one of which is the Study Groups application which has most of the standard collaboration features of other applications but offers clear distinction between teachers and students.
Just as with normal collaboration suites like Huddle, student collaboration suites have also been around since well before Facebook. The most popular platform used at universities and schools is probably Blackboard. With the introduction of Blackboard Sync you can now sync between Facebook and Blackboard, allowing you to get updates on anything that happens within Blackboard without leaving Facebook.
Some seriously cool pickings there!
I wonder when we’ll be able to start taking our life out of Facebook, and into tools, that let us have complete control over what we see, based on when we want to see it?
Thanks for coming up with this list Cristiano!
Cheers
Farhan