http://connect.educause.edu/display/45134 http://connect.educause.edu/display/45134 http://connect.educause.edu/educause/images/e_rss.png Comments for "Exploration Of Partnership Opportunities For Campus Collaborative Tools - Final Report" en http://connect.educause.edu/display/45134 <p>Recently a diverse committee of Berkeley campus leaders met with representatives from Google and Microsoft to explore the Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Live@EDU service offerings and to determine if these vendors' offerings in the areas of mail, calendaring, and web based file sharing are a reasonable alternative to UCB running these services locally (via the current CalMail, WebFiles, and CalAgenda services). </p><p>In addition to examining the benefits and drawbacks of outsourcing campus messaging services, such as email and calendaring, to one of these vendors, the committee also explored their associated collaborative tools offerings, such as collaborative writing; social bookmarking; photo, audio, and video sharing; and mapping, which may also be of considerable campus interest.</p><p>This is the report from that committee. </p> http://connect.educause.edu/display/45134#comments Calendaring Software Collaborative Technologies E-mail and Messaging Outsourcing E-mail Productivity Applications and Systems UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Vendor Partnerships Vendor Selection Workflow and Applications Contributed by Organizations or Campuses Articles, Papers, and Reports Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:58:55 -0500 ckeller 45134 at http://connect.educause.edu