investigation on Workflow software

Topic: How can work flow software can enhance productivity and communication?

I am investigating the world flatterer "Work flow software" and how it has improved the productivity and ease of communication in modern days. Work flow software is what makes it easier for computers to communicate with each other and it has made it easier for people to communicate with each other with no boundaries to stop them. Work flow software is used in personal use and corporate use where it has become more easier to make conferences with each other when one or two members are in china and the rest of the group is in the USA. An example of Work flow software is a program named "Skype". Skype is a program which allows you to communicate between a computer to computer, computer to mobile phone or even a mobile phone and a computer or another phone using the program. Skype has made it easy using A clever interface and simple guidelines to communicate with each other no matter where you are in the world.

Design brief:

I am trying to see how work flow software has affected us and has made the world flat and easier for us to communicate with each other. I want to show this by creating a video showing how work flow software has made the world flat and it is a flatterer. I will do this by creating a video of 2 to 5 minutes of length and showing how work flow software is flattening the boundaries of our life.

Also other than a video I am going to collaborate with people all around and we are going to work on a wiki site and fill it with information to enlighten people about the flatterer Work flow software.

Design specification:

Must:

1. The video must be between 2-7 minutes length because if the video is too short it will not get the message across clearly and if it is too long then people will get bored and not pay attention.
2. The video must show what Work flow software because to learn how it is a flatterer you should know what it is.
3. My video must provide a detailed explanation and description on how work flow software is a flatterer.
4. The wiki must be full of information and it must have relevant information to Work flow software.
   

Should:

1. should not be myself talking throughout the whole video but it should have a lot of pictures and video footage to make up for a lot of the words because if I am talking a lot throughout the video the words will come in one ear and through the other, a picture can make up for a thousand word.
2. The wiki should have been edited and contributed to by me. I will prove this by keeping a record on when ever I edit my wiki site with something.

How I will prove what I did and see if it got the information intended through to people:

I will prove this by after finishing the video I will hopefully ask and get feedback from people on the ning and the wiki site and I am expecting to get good feedback from my fellow students around the world that are participating in the flat class room project.

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General Investigation

Questions:

1. What is the flat classroom project
2. what is the flat classroom project based on
3. What are world flatterers
   

The flat classroom project is a project which aims in making communication and interaction easier by using web 2.0 tools. The Flat classroom project aims to bring awareness to the ideas that because of technology you can communicate with somebody half the way across the world from you, that there are no boundaries in what you can do with the help of technology. The flat classroom project was based on the book by Thomas Friedman "The world is Flat" which addresses remarkableness of what technology has done to make our life with others border less and it is now easy to communicate with each other. The goal of the flat classroom project is to lower the boundaries of a classroom instead of only having one class at one time you can have more than one classroom tuning in on the same lesson at the same time but on e is in india and the other is in New York.

There are some aspects and things that make it easier to do this and they are caled world flatteners, the things/ events that make it easier for us to communicate with each other and make it easier for us to do things that might have been complicated to do in the past.
World flatteners:
#1: Collapse of the Berlin Wall: This event ended the cold war and it made it possible for people in other side of the wall were abe to join in in places in europe which were reloatively the richer people. The opening of a boundary and it made it easier for people to go from one side to another.
#2: Netscape: netscape is a web browser which was revolutionary for it's time and with new feaatures and since it was very good it made it easier for people to use the world wide web and that broadend the audience of world wide web users.
#3: Workflow software: it is the ability for machines to communicate with other machines using technological improvements and software such as skype and email.
#4: Open Source: projects everybody can contribute to and can change. what is published
#5: Outsourcing:In friedman's book he argues haow outsourcing has made it easier to handle problems with distribution and quality control of products with less prices and more profit. With the use of fiber optic cables and sattelites it has become easier to communicate witht hose outsourced factories/ groups.
#6: Offshoring:this is the relocationg of a company's manufacturing branches or other proccesses to other regions and countries to cut costs.
#7: Supply-chaining: is the opening of chaines country or world wide to durther a company's consumer base and to open other countries to new ideas and for companies to make money from that.
#8: In sourcing: Where companies perform services for other companies in exchange for money or services.
#9: In-forming:where it has become so easy for people to find out information due to search engines and the availability of all the information online.
#10: "The Steroids": personal digital devices which combine so many services into one device like mobile phones which make it easier to do things in just a few clicks. you can have all youre whole life in a very small object such as mobile phones.