Group collaboration

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Group collaboration, or group collaboration tools is usually a piece of software or website which facilitates communications between a group of people as well as tools to collaborate on projects or tasks. These tools typically include member and email list management, a shared address book, shared calendar, project/task management, a shared file system, and tools for online collaborative document creation such as wikis, blogs, discussions boards, etc. Some services offer a suite of integrated tools while others focus on delivering a single solution like shared file storage. Also See topics on Concurrent Version Systems.

A number of free online group collaborations solutions exist. In 2000 Yahoo purchased eGroups and renamed the service Yahoo!Groups [1]. This is probably the most widely used service although other companies such as Aol [2]and Microsoft [3] also offer group solutions. More recently a number of startups (AirSet [4]), have emerged to take advantage of newer browser technologies to deliver more sophisticated applications in their collaboration suites.