Design decision - tools

The Web 2.0 tools that will comprise the framework. Most have been selected for several reasons:
- I have experience in them
- widely used
- fairly easy to use


Wiki space - wikispaces - A free wiki engine with an easy wysiwyg interface

Social bookmarking - Diigo - A powerful social bookmarking tool. Group feature. Good easy-to-use browser add-on. Can be a lot of information on the Diigo pages so I'll need to specify clear instructions on the use of the tool. Also, explanations of selected features only.

Blog - blogger - This is an easy to use blogging tool. Also be part of the Google set of tools so it will help keep things a bit more consistent. Shared access.

Calendar - Google calendar - Able to set up group calendar. Also has email/SMS notification features for reminders.

Documents - Google docs - Easy to use, although lacking features of Microsoft Word which may make it confusing for people use to these. Shared access.

Photo management - Picasa - Another Google tool - so should be good for consistency. There is a lot of features so there is a bit of learning involved. It is installed on the computer and synchronises albums onto the web. Web albums can be shared.