It Tools For Project Management
- 1. IT Tools for Project Management Oguzhan Erim KTH International Office
- 2. Personal Background Bsc in Management Information Systems and Double BSc in International Trade 2001-2005, Beykent University, Istanbul Msc in Information and Communication Technology Entrepreneurship 2006-2008, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm President of the International Student Service 2008-2009, THS / Student Union at KTH International Administrator for Incoming Students - Since March 2009, KTH International Office
- 3. Does technology really bite?
- 5. IT is more than beneficial...
- 6. IT Tools
- 7. Google Apps & Tools www.google.com/apps Service from Google for using custom domain names with several Google products. It features several Web applications with similar functionality to traditional office suites, including: Gmail, Google Calendar, Talk, Docs and Sites.
- 8. Google Docs docs.google.com Free, Web-based Microsoft Office like tools including word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and form application offered by Google. It allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating in real- time with other users. Scenario: You need to prepare an information material which requires involvement of many people and will be published in different languages
- 9. Google Forms docs.google.com A webbased flexible form and survey development interface with built-in reporting. Scenario: You want to create an online registration form for “Introduction Seminar for Exchange Studies”
- 10. Google Calendar google.com/calendar Google Calendar is a free time-management web application offered by Google. While users are not required to have a Gmail account, they are required to have a Google Account in order to use the software. Scenario: You want to share important dates and events between the consortium member universities
- 11. Evernote www.evernote.com Web service and software application that allows users to collect notes and information by their computers, PDA’s, telephones and share with others. Scenario: You office is attending a Cluster workshop but there are different tracks. So you need to inform your other colleagues about what is happening on your track. You want to share your notes (in a Word document), an interesting figure that is hard to put in Word and an audio-clip of the speech.
- 12. EtherPad www.etherpad.com EtherPad is a web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing up to eight people to edit a text document at the same time, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, each in their own color. Participants can permanently save revisions at any time, and it provides a separate chat box in the sidebar. Scenario: There is a need to edit Consortium Aggreement in real time, with people in different geographic locations.
- 13. Screen Toaster www.screentoaster.com Free online screen recorder. Capture video of onscreen action and share them instantly. Scenario:You need to prepare a manual to explain complex online application process
- 14. Blogs & Edublogs www.edublogsorg A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Scenario: You want to share your experience when you are abroad for a fair
- 15. Dimdim www.dimdim.com Web conferencing tool which helps collaborate and share voice, video, slides, whiteboard, even your desktop
- 16. Scribd & Slideshare www.scribd.com Document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. Scribd currently has more than 50 million monthly users and more than 50,000 documents are uploaded daily Scenario: You want to share several presentations and notes which is too many and too big to send with emails. Think also if you don’t have their emails!
- 17. URL Shortening Websites www.bit.ly URL shortening services are popular because web addresses started to get long and links would break when sent in an email. Scenario: You want to share the link of your presentation on Scribd with 107 character
- 18. Explore your own resources Scenario: You need to send customized welcome letters to 300 new admitted students with different name, birth date and adress
- 19. Resources Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 / www.c4lpt.co.uk Wikipedia / www.wikipedia.org Company’s own websites Glasbergen for comics / www.glasbergen.com
- 20. Vikings of the 21.st Century Illustration by Adam Cadwell from Smashing Magazine,