Lesson 12

E-GROUPS

JUN ODONZO
TLE 6 Teacher
LET’S BE INFORMED
E-groups , also known as online or web communities, are
groups of people who use internet services such as e-mail, chat
systems, discussion boards, and social networking sites to
communicate and collaborate with one another. It is a
convenient way to share messages, photos, and ideas and
keep people with some interests stay connected.
Sharing and working with others is a challenging task but
rewarding as well.
 Rewards and challenges of e-groups
Rewards
 Sharing ideas among the group.
Members can share their ideas and
contribute about the pros and cons of
the task or project to be accomplished.
This collaboration can bring better
results for the project or task.
 Improving work and increasing
efficiency.
Work is done faster and may project
better product results.
 Cost-saving for the company.
It allows to accomplish more and allows
to accomplish more and allows the
group to meet team goals more quickly
without having to travel.
Challenges
 Overloading of information.
Long messages threads may make the
sequence of conversations had to be
understood. Messages maybe
overloaded too.
 Occurrence of time intervals.
Conversations sometimes get delayed
because members may not log on the
same time. Messages may take longer
to be received and worse, no reply is
received at all.
 Rewards and challenges of e-groups
Rewards Challenges
 Showcasing individual strengths and  Having uncooperative
creating an improved workforce. members.
Individual ideas are directly contributed. Some members may not
E-groups urge everyone to share ideas cooperate as they prefer to
and promote limitless discussions. work alone.
 Offering better relationships.  Directionless.
 People learn to reach out, share ideas and E-group discussions without
problems encountered, and develop mediators may result to a
camaraderie. Since e-group members directionless conversations.
share similar interests, they support
 Each other and motivate a better
community.