This document evaluates and provides links to several social networking and collaboration platforms: - Elgg is an open source social networking platform that provides a framework to build various social environments and is customizable through core and third-party plugins. - Google Apps is Google's software-as-a-service product that provides customizable versions of Google products like Gmail and Docs under a custom domain. - Open Atrium is an intranet and team portal package based on Drupal that is extensible and customizable with features like blogs, wikis, and calendars. - PBworks is a paid hosted collaboration service for businesses and education with over one million workspaces. - Microsoft SharePoint is a proprietary

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Elgg is a free, award- Poster pdf and additional study information
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social networking engine
that provides a robust For more author information about enterprise 2.0
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build all kinds of social How Companies are Benefiting from Web 2.0
environments. Elgg is totally configurable and customiz- McKinseyQuarterly.com/Business_Technology.com
able with core and 3rd-party plugins.
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Google Apps is Google’s Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
SaaS providing inde- PewResearch.org
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versions of several Using Web 2.0 for Health Care Research and Education
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functionality to traditional office suites.
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for an Interdisciplinary
Open Atrium is an software: an enabling suite of sociable technologies in health
Intranet and team
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and health care education
portal package based on Health Information & Libraries Journal 2007; 24(1):e23
Community of Practice (CoP)
Drupal. It is extensible http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-1842.2007.00701.x
and customizable and
comes with a blog, a
wiki, a calendar, a to-do list, a shoutbox, and a dashboard
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to manage it all.
PBworks is a paid
subscription service
and the world’s largest Michelle C. Farabough BA, MSKM
provider of hosted School of Community Medicine
collaboration solutions University of Oklahoma
for business and Health Sciences Center, Tulsa Campus
education. They host over one million team workspaces
and serve millions of users per month.
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