Editing Collaboration tool (section)

=== Asynchronous collaboration tools ===
A collaboration tool is asynchronous when its users are collaborating at a different time:<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url = https://sites.google.com/a/ghaea.org/aiw-iowacore-techintegration/synchronous-vs-asynchronous|title = Synchronous or Asynchronous Tools|date = 2012|website = Green Hills AEA|publisher = Green Hills Area Education Agency|last = Wahlert|first = Tina}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url = http://etec.ctlt.ubc.ca/510wiki/Synchronous_and_Asynchronous_Communication:Tools_for_Collaboration|title = The University of British Columbia, ETEC510 Design Wiki|date = 2014|website = University of British Columbia Design Wiki|publisher = University of British Columbia|last1 = Kask|first1 = Byron|last2 = Wood|first2 = Sarah}}</ref>

==== [[Email|E-Mail]], [[Mailing list|mailinglists]] and [[newsgroups]] ====
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[[Email|E-Mail]] is the best known asynchronous collaboration tool and the most common used<ref>{{Cite book|title = 2014 Mobile Behavior Report|publisher = salesforce.com|year = 2014|url = https://www.exacttarget.com/sites/exacttarget/files/deliverables/etmc-2014mobilebehaviorreport.pdf}}</ref> - it offers intuitive features for forwarding messages, creating mailing groups and attaching documents. Furthermore, information can be automatically chronologically sorted and assigned to tasks or calendar events.

==== [[Online calendar|Group calendar]] ====
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Through group calendars meetings can be scheduled, projects managed and people coordinated. It is a great tool to help a person overlook their deliverables and deadlines. A group calendar includes functions such as the detection of conflicting schedules with other people in a team or organization or coordination of meeting times that suit everybody in a team. Besides the positive effects of group calendar there is also controversy about privacy and control that might influence a person's productivity.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Use and Implications of a Shared, Forecasting Calendar|last1 = Tullio|first1 = Joe|publisher = Georgia Institute of Technology|year = 2007|url = https://research.cc.gatech.edu/ecl/sites/edu.ecl/files/C.64-Tullio-INTERACT-2007.pdf|last2 = Mynatt|first2 = Elizabeth D.}}</ref>

==== [[Workflow management system|Workflow systems]] ====
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With workflow systems files or documents can be communicated to the organization by following a strict and organised process. They provide services for routing, development of forms and support for roles. As current workflow systems are controlled from one point, individuals within an organization normally do not have the permission to manage their own processes so far - this should be changed by implementing collaborative planning tools to current workflow systems.<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Future of Workflow Technology: Collaborative Planning|last = Swenson|first = Keith D.|publisher = Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions Inc.}}</ref>

==== [[Hypertext]] ====
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Hypertext technology connects our files to each other and makes sure that always the latest version is available to us. When people work on different documents the system automatically updates the information of other people.<ref>{{Cite book|title = A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools|last = Kim|first = Eugene Eric|year = 2004|pages = 1–3|url = http://gerrystahl.net/hci/kim.pdf}}</ref>