Report on Campus Collaborative Tools Partnership Investigations Project
June 25th, 2007 by Ian CrewEarlier this year, a diverse committee of campus leaders met with representatives from Google and Microsoft to explore the Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Live@EDU service offerings and to determine if these vendors’ offerings in the areas of mail, calendaring, and web based file sharing are a reasonable alternative to UCB running these services locally (via the current CalMail, WebFiles, and CalAgenda services).
In addition to examining the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing campus messaging services, such as email and calendaring, to one of these vendors, the committee also explored their associated collaborative tools offerings, such as collaborative writing; social bookmarking; photo, audio, and video sharing; and mapping, which may also be of considerable campus interest.
The report from this committee (192KB PDF) is now available.
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:23 pm
UC Berkeley review of web apps
With the growing weight of Google’s and Microsoft’s web-based application bundles, many colleges and universities are beginning to seriously evaluate whether they could save money and provide better services by contracting with one of these providers. …
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Awesome, go Bears!
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:13 pm
UC Berkeley Reviews On-line Collaboration Tools for Universities
UC Berkeley reviews so-called *ahem* “Web 2.0″ collaboration platforms (via O’Reilly Radar) Reviewin’? We don’t need no stinkin’ reviewin’. We…
July 25th, 2007 at 7:01 am
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