Integrated real time collaboration experiences with online workspace

A collaborative team site service to be executed on at least one server for integrating online meetings with shared workspaces, the service comprising:

• a storage module for storing data associated with the shared workspaces in at least one data store associated with the at least one server;
• a collaboration module for managing processing of data associated with the shared workspaces by a plurality of data processing applications accessed by users of the shared workspaces;
• a search module for enabling users to perform searches on the data associated with the shared workspaces;
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• an online meeting module for organizing and facilitating an online meeting associated with at least one document within a shared workspace, the online module capable of:
• preparing a workspace for the online meeting that includes at least one from a set of:
• links to the at least one document associated with the online meeting, a history of online meetings on a same subject, and a list of future scheduled meetings on the same subject;
• enabling participants of the online meeting to modify the at least one document associated with the online meeting and to create at least one other document associated with the online meeting;
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• at conclusion of the online meeting, providing any modified and newly created documents and a recording of the online meeting to the collaboration module for automatic processing and storing in the shared workspace such that the stored documents are reusable, searchable, and associated with the concluded online meeting.

A computer-readable storage medium with instructions stored thereon for integrating online meetings with shared workspaces, the instructions comprising:

• enabling online and offline collaborative operations on documents within a shared workspace;
• providing a user interface for selection of the documents within the shared workspace;
• in response to selection of at least one document in the user interface, providing an option to initiate an online meeting associate with the selected document;
• in response to receiving an indication of a request for initiating the online meeting, preparing a workspace for the online meeting that includes at least one from a set of:
• links to the at least one document associated with the online meeting, a history of online meetings on a same subject, and a list of future scheduled meetings on the same subject;
• facilitating the online meeting by enabling participants of the online meeting to modify the at least one document associated with the online meeting and to create at least one other document associated with the online meeting;
• at conclusion of the online meeting, automatically formatting, indexing, and linking any modified and newly created documents and a recording of the online meeting such that the documents and the recording of the meeting are stored in the shared workspace in a reusable and searchable manner available to online and offline users of the shared workspace.