Well, in this society, information is the base of advance. Without communication, humans couldn't establish basic relationships to follow and get an objective (we are not alone in this world, you know?).
In this days, we have a lot of media communication: Television, radio, Internet, Messenger, mobile phones... Specially I want to remark internet. Internet allow everyone to see the world through a computer o something that can have Internet connection (who knows if in the future even a sandwich can have Internet...).
I will focus on enterprise (not necessary) projects. Internet has become a great media to coordinate and administrate teams. The well-known web 2.0 is a very useful utility to achieve it. Wikis, Forums, Blogs... They make this task easier. So my post is for convince people to use them.
I will begin with Blog: If you don't have lot of time to expend, maybe it will be boring writing a blog (many people take blog as a personal journal. Yes, it is, but not at force). Blogs are useful to diffuse information and having a corner in Internet for you, your feelings, your ideals... All you want!
There are many types of blogs, blogs for all people: Sports, Communication, Software Development, Tutorials made by people... In general as I said, for introduce information to the world, making this info being commented by users.
Look at this video:
As soon as I begin the Moodle Development project, I will have a kind of "logbook" in this blog, a memory for remember TO-DO things, for example, or simply, "what I did in any day?" Organitzation... Planification... etc.
Let's talk about forums. Forum are amazing, impressive, are a great way for transmit information: Usually, forums are located in a web community. They are used mostly for discussing: A user post a thread about something, and the rest of users comment the thread making posts. The information can be, from technical discussing about computers (for example), or making a date with your friends (or simply, foro-chat xD).
In forums of computers usually there are tutorials or manuals, and often posts question-answer (A user has a problem with his computer, and users try to resolve it). Also there are threads for discussing about news (for example, for commenting new software that has been released).
In few words, forums typically are like a lot of persons sit close, and talking about a theme, but online, making large distances closer.
Let's talk about wikis. Wikis are fantastic. Wikipedia is the media used for having information, where that information can be added/modified by users. A person writes an article about NASA, for example, and another user can edit that article to improve it. It's really easy to maintain a wiki.
They are also used for organization. Teammates can make a list of tasks achieved, and TODO tasks. A concrete user can edit the page and add to the achieved list a task that was on the "TODO" tasks, because he has done it.
In these times, the technological world is being improved in a exponential way thanks to the Information Systems and the Society of Information. I thank to them because they make the world more perfect.
