Collaborating outside the firewall

I had been asked recently to share my knowledge of some of the collaboration/sharing tools that are out there (beyond the firewall), available for little or no cost and differ from the 'classic' social computing apps (wikis & blogs).

So here are a few I have been stashing away in my favourites when I come across them.

• Aps
  Google Aps - www.google.com/a
• Mind Mapping
  Mind42 (mind for two) - http://www.mind42.com/
  Mind Meister - http://www.mindmeister.com/
• Diagrams/Visualisation
  Sketchcast - http://www.sketchcast.com/
  Many Eyes - services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/home
  Swivel - http://www.swivel.com/
• Groups/Discussion
  Google Groups - groups.google.com/
  Yahoo Groups - groups.yahoo.com/
  Grouply - www.grouply.com/
  Tangler - http://www.tangler.com/
• Sharing Documents
  Google Docs - docs.google.com
  Slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/
• Sharing Images
  flickr - http://www.flickr.com/
• Sharing Books
  Library Thing - http://www.librarything.com/
• Sharing Links
  del.icio.us - del.icio.us
  digg - digg.com
• Networks
  LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/
  Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/
  Fidg't - http://www.fidgt.com/
  Ning - http://www.ning.com/
  Xing - http://www.xing.com/
• Wiki
  Google Sites (Aps) - sites.google.com
  wik.is - http://www.wik.is/
  Wikispaces - http://www.wikispaces.com/
  Wikimatrix - http://www.wikimatrix.com/
  
• Blog
  Blogger - http://www.blogger.com/
  Wordpress - http://www.wordpress.com/
  Live Journal - http://www.livejournal.com/

I have come across a number of these tools by monitoring a few blogs/feeds, groups and email newsletters including:

• XML Daily Newslink - xml.coverpages.org/newsletter.html
• actKM Forum - http://www.actkm.org/
• Online Facilitation Group - tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onlinefacilitation
• ComPrac Group - groups.yahoo.com/group/com-prac

Thanks

Cory