Enterprise 2.0

Computer Supported Collaboration Work 2.0

By Fayez alqahtani Computer Supported Collaboration Work (CSCW) has been used to enhance the collaboration effort in organisations. However, CSCW use is bounded by the organisational border and support a centralised collaboration fashion. Consequently, collaboration become in one direction from top of the organisation to the bottom; and this yield in poor knowledge sharing. On the other hand, the emerging internet technology (web 2.0) started to be used in the organisational context and grant...

Google Docs and Collaboration

Web 2.0 potential technology for organisations

By Fayez Alqahtani Web 2.0 technology has become an important phenomena and many users around the world use it in their personal life. It is the social software that can be used to organize store tag and send information on the internet. There are attempt to use this technology in the business context, however its role in this context need to be defined and current business initiatives regarding web 2.0 technology need to be analysed in order to explore the issue of implementing web 2.0 in th...

A review of “Weblogging: A study of social computing and its impact on organizations”

By Fayez Alqahtani Rachael Kwai Fun IP and Christian Wagner wrote a paper for the Decision Support Systems journal on 2008 about how social computing tools like blogs could have an impact on organizations. In this post I am going to review and summaries this paper Social software like web logging is now driving the spread of virtual communities, especially among young people. Web logs and other social computing software may have increasing impact on organizational computing. Therefore, the...