Collaboration, Meetings & Knowledge Work

Microsoft's collaboration and communications platform

A commercial workspace for chat, meetings, calls, files and app-based collaboration.

Zoom's collaboration platform

A commercial suite combining video meetings, chat, calls and other workplace collaboration tools.

Notion's connected workspace

A commercial workspace combining documents, wikis, projects, databases and AI-assisted collaboration.

Slack's work communication platform

A commercial channel-based messaging and collaboration product with calls, files, apps and workflow integrations.

Collaboration without everyone participating at once

Work communicated through durable messages, documents or recordings that people can handle at different times.

Collaboration happening at the same time

Work performed in live meetings, calls, chats or shared sessions where participants interact immediately.

A live meeting using networked audio and video

A real-time remote session where participants communicate through cameras, microphones, screen sharing and chat.

Real-time text-based communication

A communication mode for direct or group messages, often with presence, threads, reactions and file sharing.

A named space for group communication

A persistent conversation area organised around a team, project, subject or audience within a collaboration tool.

A shared digital environment for a group

The top-level area that contains members, content, permissions, channels or projects in a collaboration product.

A collaboratively edited knowledge site

A linked collection of pages that authorised users can create and update to share organisational knowledge.

An organised collection of reusable information

A maintained repository of guidance, answers, procedures and troubleshooting material for staff or customers.

The formal record of a meeting

A concise written account of attendees, decisions, important discussion and assigned follow-up actions.

A specific follow-up task from a discussion

A piece of work recorded with a clear owner and, where useful, a due date and expected outcome.