Whiteboarding

Videoconferencing and data conferencing software often lets documents as on a physical whiteboard.

In hybrid whiteboarding, special handwriting detection software allows for physical whiteboards to be shared with remote and distant users, often allowing for the simultaneous addition of digital content.

[1] Whiteboarding sessions — both in-office and virtual — provide teams with a collaborative, creative environment for brainstorming new ideas and solving problems.

Without a defined structure in place, however, these sessions can quickly unravel and get off track.

Electronic whiteboarding was included at least as early as 1996 in the CoolTalk tool in Netscape Navigator 3.0.