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Good for |
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Cons |
Watch out for |
AOB |
Learning Curve |
| Mailing lists |
Coordinating activities, keeping in touch with supporters, |
Sharing large files, collaborative work on-line, recruiting new support |
Simple, quick and cheap |
Low visibility |
Trolls |
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easy (Send and Reply email) |
| Wikis |
Collaborative work |
Tasks that require hierarchy and secrecy |
Cheap, easy to use, transparent, in many cases much better than using e-mails, history area (nothing is ever erased) |
History area all actions are documented |
Spam |
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Steep (needs a tutorial - new people have difficulty embracing wikis) |
| Social networking sites |
Keeping up-to-date on people, finding friends of friends who can assist, searching for people with specific skills, job searching |
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People whom you do not know who want you to join their network for no good reason |
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easy |
| Forums |
Discussing a specific question, expressing many opinions, moving towards a decision |
Long discussions that last many weeks or months |
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"Flaming" wars: people getting emotional and upset about a topic. That is the time to move the discussion to another format (phone, face-to-face meeting) |
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easy |
| Shared Referencing |
Finding out about links that might interest you, sharing links you identified, promoting links so others learn about them |
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