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=How Workflow Software Can Enhance Productivity and Communication= Team Members go to your assigned team page. = TEAM A = = TEAM B = = TEAM C = Free workflow software was developed, allowing people from around the world to collaborate and work together on projects using a shared medium. The ability of machines to talk to other machines with no humans involved.
 * Workflow Software ** // - Flattener #3, p 77-93 //
 * Overview of topic **
 * Being able to create and manipulate digital content (words, data, pictures) from the desktop
 * Through online connectivity being able to share and distribute this content: machines talking to machines
 * For work to flow seamlessly: connections between different platforms, transmission protocols and languages e.g SMTP, HTTP, HTML, TCP/IP
 * Interoperability between departments necessitating software and hardware development
 * Standardization of business and other practices: PayPal, JPEG
 * New coding called AJAX: allows for online productivity (what you would normally do on a PC eg WP, can be done over the Internet)


 * Workflow Software, ideas to get started **
 * It has become more important to standardize software and devise platform compatibility in order to be able to work more efficiently between programs and between users: Discuss a perspective on this in relation to business and education
 * Provide current scenarios and examples of work flow software to support your comparative discussion eg how does a Mac OS PC 'talk' to a PC running WinXP? What are the most common applications that promote interoperability: packages and Web 2.0
 * How does the concept and practice of work flow software enhance/improve productivity and communication: give specific examples
 * How must education change to instruct students in collaboration? How must industry change how they train their workforce? How cultural and geographic (time zone) issues impact collaboration?