A whirlwind tour of different types of online collaboration tools, targeted at transportation researchers.

1. Collaboration in the Cloud Online Tools for Transportation Research AASHTO RAC Annual Meeting July 26-29, 2010 Steve Wagner University of Wisconsin-Madison

2. Collaboration requires efficient communication across time, space, and disparate systems.

3. Cloud computing is web-based, and agnostic regarding time, location, and operating system.

4. Systems

5. Cloud computing requiresa computer, an Internet connection, and a web browser.

6. Location

7. Applications in the cloud do not care about your location.

8. Time

9. Synchronous

10. Real-time, multi-userediting environments.

11. [Etherpad Screenshot]

12. MeetingWordsCollabeditSubEthaEditPiratePadGobbySync.inGoogle Wave

13. Real-time, multi-usercommunicationenvironments.

14. [Campfire Screenshot]

15. EchowavesHipChatMibbitGoogle Wave

16. Asynchronous

17. Asynchronous, multi-user editing environments for single documents.

18. [Writeboard]

19. Live DocumentsZoho WriterGoogle DocsThinkFree

20. Asynchronous, multi-user environments for multiple, interlinked documents. A wiki.

21. [PBWiki]

22. WetpaintWikispacesZoho WikiGoogle SitesMediaWikiBackpack

23. Asynchronous, multi-user project collaboration spaces.

24. [Basecamp]

25. GoplanactiveCollabHuddleProjectPierTeamwork PMLighthouse

26. cfire.wistrans.org/rac2010

27. Thank You.