Wiki

Edit this Page View Revision History

Collaboration Platforms

This page is a stub and needs clean-up

The architecture of the internet and the web make them intrinsically collaborative platforms, but web-based collaborative platforms tend to focus on a facilitating a few different patterns for collaboration. This page is meant to outline those patterns and catalog platforms that facilitate them.

One set of patterns often shows up within the context of brainstorming and issue-reporting. Here, they are referred to as, Ideation, Inquiry, and Issue-reporting. These different properties tend to be combined in different ways depending on the context. For brainstorming, both ideation and inquiry are often combined while for issue-reporting, both ideas and issues are often combined. Some platforms, such as Get Satisfaction, will combine all three.

Another distinction made within these patterns is whether the response is meant to be more objective or more subjective.

Ideation

Description of the ideation pattern. This can also apply to petitioning.

Software

Open Source

  • All of the systems listed under Inquiry can also be used for ideation.
  • Adhocracy is a Python based ideation and deliberation platform (some information is only in German)
  • Liquid Feedback
  • Django Brainstorm is a Python Django based ideation platform developed by Sunlight Labs
  • IdeaTorrent is a PHP Drupal based ideation platform
  • Pligg is a PHP based ideation platform

Petitioning

Voting
Pair-wise

Paired systems compare entries in sets of two

  • All Our Ideas allows ideas to be sourced and rated while minimizing selection bias through a pairing interface. (also provided as a hosted service)

See the Quora discussion: [http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-open-source-question-answer-applications-like-Quora? What are some open source question and answer applictions like Quora]

Proprietary

Pair-wise

Paired systems compare entries in sets of two

See the Quora discussion: What are the best tools for crowdsourcing ideas

Inquiry

Description of the inquiry and deliberation pattern

Software

Open Source

Deliberation focused

See the Quora discussion: [http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-open-source-question-answer-applications-like-Quora? What are some open source question and answer applictions like Quora]

Proprietary

See the Quora discussion: What are the best tools for crowdsourcing ideas

Issue Reporting

Description of the issue-reporting pattern.

Software

Some notes until I clean this up:

Authoring

Wikis and document creation, google docs, etherpad, mixedink, etc.

Documents

Wikis

See the Quora discussion: What are some good open source real-time collaborative document editing tools?

Annotation

See Also