7 Essential Free Web Apps for Online Collaboration

Collaboration is very essential to learning on social web and internet. As there with the development of online technology, it has become very imperative and necessary to have some free tools for get connect with each other for purpose of collaboration without being setting on a room and collaborating over a project. Here are illustrated online collaboration tools which are in vogue.

1. Keep and Share: It is a group file sharing system that is controlled by passwords and have a good numbers of online collaboration tools. At the web app you can share files, can have free online calendar, photo hosting and album features, etc. As to present status she has in total 937, 464 users. With its original upgrade plans you can opt between public and private sharing. Once a file uploaded it can be shared with everyone for free.
2. Wridea:  Developed and managed by Octeth Ltd it is a web application development company as founded in 1999. In brief it is an online idea management and collaboration service which has been developed for anyone who wishes to manage his ideas in an innovative manner and attitude. With the help of Wridea you can store your ideas and can organize them with their friends.  You can organize and distribute ideas on different patterns letting other users to comment over topics and ideas.
3. Writeboard: It is all about writing a good idea, preserving it and then sharing it with your groups of friends and associates.  It has features to write an idea without being fear of losing that idea. There you can compare different versions of a document. Collaborate with colleagues on copy, proposals, memos etc. You can have subscription to documents through RSS and be notified of changes.  It is also for authors, journalist, PR peoples, editors and publishers.
4. Twiddla.com: It is a real time online collaboration tool well suited for the purposes like online meeting and co-browsing. In groups in can be used for the purpose of marking and commenting on web pages, images and other related contents.  It is very simple and does not requires any plug-ins or downloads more there is hardly any need to have complex firewalls and advance scheduling and is available 24 hours seven days a week.
5. Spicebird: It is a collaboration client tool which provides an integrated approach to e-mail, contacts, calendaring and instant messaging under a single application. It provides an easy access to a number of web services while having all the benefits of desktop applications. The application is based upon on projects like Thunderbird, Lighting and Telepathy and adds more functionality into it.
6. Stixy: It is an online bulletin board which creates as many as Stixy boards as liked by you one for each project. It can easily organize and share your family’s schedule, projects at work, upcoming holiday with friends.   However, for using stixy one should be creative   so can draw a widget out on the board and place anywhere it is required.
7. Group Tweet: It is a background application working along with Twitter and letting users to form groups and communications with these groups. It appends the direct message feature as provided by and is already available within Twitter which let user to send a private message to other users.  Group Tweet is quite popular with neighborhood watch groups, conference & convention back channels, company teams & groups, special interests groups.

Distance learning programs are programs whose course materials are available online. These courses do not involve too much practical work and therefore the theoretical tutorials are sent via email. Group discussions are held in group chat rooms and the online lecturers answer the questions that are raised by the students after reading the course materials. These distance-learning programs include:

1. Management
Management is a course that equips an individual to become a good leader in an organization. This course is taught online since most of the tutorials involve theory and the practice part is done in project form. The student is expected to attach themselves to a company and work in a management office after which they are supposed to document their findings. The report the students give is marked and it counts in the final grade. This ensures the students are serious with the projects.

2. Teaching
Teaching is also offered online. This program involves a lot of instructions and following a set of modules already designed. Due to this reason, the skills that are required in the profession are taught online. The students are taught how to administer the courses to various types of students at various levels of understanding. Since most of the work that is covered is theory. The course material is sent through emails and the examinations are done online.

3. Nursing
Nursing involves caring skills for invalids and infants. There is nothing practical that cannot be demonstrated in diagrams. The student, through the online library of the academic institution in which the student is enrolled, learns most of the nursing skills with references to books that are accessible. Due to the simplicity of the course, a student gets all the course materials while they are still at their country of residence. They do their examinations online and the certificates sent via mail to their countries.

4. Criminal justice
Criminal justice is a course that equips an individual with the right skills to fight for humane conditions for criminals who are mainly in custody. Just like jurisprudence, the bulk of the criminal justice study is theoretical. This enables individuals who want to take the course to study through distance learning. Students of criminal justice have a short course outline since the field is specialized.

5. Marketing
Marketing is the skill that equips an individual on efficient ways in which they can introduce a product to a customer base and generate sales. The marketing skills mainly cover matters of etiquette and discipline while handling customers as well as promotions and advertising. The entire process can be explained theoretically since most of the course is based on theoretical principles. It is therefore offered online and some discussions are held on chat.