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"A ballooning city budget deficit and a dwindling tax base led the City of Santa Cruz to rethink its governing methods. By using an Online collaboration tool, city officials tapped their electorate to help resolve a budget crises and set an economic development strategy that would preserve the city’s unique cultural and environmental hallmarks. "

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"Now that it’s possible to work, politick or party with partners round the world, round the clock, what have we got to show for it? These speakers offer some intriguing examples of the potential of internet-driven collectives, as well as some cautionary notes.

Moderator Thomas Malone describes a NASA “clickworker” project enabling amateurs to help identify craters on the surface of Mars; and Garry Kasparov’s 1999 chess match against ‘the world’ –a team that voted via the internet on its moves against the champion. Kasparov said it was the hardest game he’d ever played"

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"How can the power and scope of social networks, combined with human capital metrics, be used to facilitate shared creation and innovation?

It’s becoming more accepted that collaboration, not competition, is a more effective avenue towards producing emergent, innovative results. Now that millions of people participate in online social networks, it seems high time to develop a system of matching people’s skill sets with common values and goals in order to bring about positive change."

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"“Working Wikily” is a phrase that the Monitor Institute team coined (with a little alliterative assistance from our friend Lucy Bernholz) to describe the new ways that people are applying network theory and networked technology to do the work they’ve always done in a more collaborative form and also to begin working in new ways altogether."

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"ProtonMedia is the leading provider of virtual world technology for the enterprise. Our flagship product ProtoSphere is a secure, private virtual world environment for collaboration and learning. As the premier virtual world platform for the enterprise, ProtoSphere features a suite of communications and social networking tools designed to overcome linear communications and create a networked, learning organization."

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"To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the role the Internet and social networking plays in the timely communication, wide area team-building and urgent mobilization required to solve broad scope, time-critical problems.

The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roadways."

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"An on-line collaboration strategy is about adopting practices and disciplines that leverage the right applications to support the people tasked with achieving powerful outcomes. And this requires time and patience to observe patterns and identify what works well, where the weaknesses lie and how to strengthen the environment for constant growth.

That is the purpose of 2b2 Collabuilding framework: To enable the design, building and constantly strengthening of a collaboration environment that generates better outcomes about, for and by the people it serves."

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"The true collaboration occurs when people have the possibility to co-work on the same sub-task, activating a mechanism of new knowledge creation. Collaboration is not so obvious if is not clearly supported: the risk is to exchange this “together” learning process with a simple cooperation process, producing not new knowledge but only a simple addition of individual regress knowledge.

In this sense, collaboration has to be helped in order to avoid isolation in job and supported with a compatible scheduling of daily activities. Is also important to create “collaboration bridges” across teams and groups, involving people to participate in each other’s activities or involve experts on other areas to collaborate together. "

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"The spread of wiki technology combined with Wikimedia’s restricted goals has led to the creation of separate wikis devoted to diverse communities. Many do not reach their full potential through a lack of focus or leadership; others fail to attract stable contributors due to inadequate policies or promotion. This situation can be improved.

Variations in topic, audience, and technical ability demand differing approaches when building and managing wiki communities. I provide concrete examples from two: Creatures Wiki, based around an artificial life simulation for children; and WikiFur, an encyclopedia for the furry (anthropomorphic) fandom. I show community solutions to issues arising from policy decisions, such as the inclusion of information on community members, and describe approaches to disruption, including legal threats, proxy attacks, and influxes of visitors – and vandals – from popular websites.
I discuss the variable applicability of Wikipedia’s policies, as well as effective methods of online and offline promotion, recruiting, advertising, and monitoring of visitors and contributors. I outline effective uses of featured material on the front pages in driving regular contributions and traffic, and note the importance of personal leadership and delegation. I conclude that a respected community reference site can be created within half a year. (summary, PDF and audio versions)"

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"On 27 January 2009, one of us — Gowers — used his blog to announce an unusual experiment. The Polymath Project had a conventional scientific goal: to attack an unsolved problem in mathematics. But it also had the more ambitious goal of doing mathematical research in a new way. Inspired by open-source enterprises such as Linux and Wikipedia, it used blogs and a wiki to mediate a fully open collaboration. Anyone in the world could follow along and, if they wished, make a contribution. The blogs and wiki functioned as a collective short-term working memory, a conversational commons for the rapid-fire exchange and improvement of ideas.

The collaboration achieved far more than Gowers expected, and showcases what we think will be a powerful force in scientific discovery — the collaboration of many minds through the Internet."

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"Recently, Simon reported on a couple of interesting studies looking at the use of collaboration technologies in the workplace, Forrester’s “The State Of Workforce Technology Adoption: US Benchmark 2009” and Frost & Sullivan’s “Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration.” Both reports have great stories to tell about the current state of collaboration technology acceptance within corporations. However, both reports skim over what is perhaps the key element in driving online collaboration within an organization: Corporate culture.

It is not enough to just deploy the latest collaboration tools, whether that is Microsoft SharePoint; Office Communications Server; Google Apps; a corporate VoIP telephony system; mobile devices like the BlackBerry or iPhone; or the latest online collaboration tool reviewed on WebWorkerDaily. The challenge is getting people using them — and for that you need a collaborative corporate culture.

Some integral elements of a collaborative corporate culture include:"

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"n many ways, Wave is a best of breed web collaboration tool:

* Like email, it is a platform that everyone can "be on". Wave is being released as an open source Internet protocol, like email. That's HUGE.
* Like email, message originators and participants can decide who's included on each conversation.
* Like instant messaging (better, actually), you can have conversations in real-time. In Wave, you can see what the other person is typing as they type it.
* Like forums, everyone can follow along on the conversation.
* Like wikis, a single piece of content can be updated by everyone involved, avoiding the creation of a duplicate for each participant.
* Like nothing else before, the sequence of events that led to the present state of a message can be replayed."

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"This report summarizes the research literature on virtual collaboration, focusing on interactive virtual collaborations in real or near-real time. In particular, it reviews how the processes and outcomes of virtual collaborations are affected by the communication medium (videoconferencing, audioconferencing, or computer-mediated conferencing). It then discusses how problems in such collaboration can be mitigated and opportunities realized. Problems include increased “us vs. them” divisions and misunderstandings, as well as shifts toward risky options. Opportunities include broadening the range of views and options, as well as broadening the range of available experts. The report suggests a strategy for choosing the most effective medium, including face-to-face communication and hybrid systems, as a function of task and context (e.g., convergence on a decision or brainstorming). "

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Phil Wolff on research toward a science of collaboration

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"Presentation: Instedd: Mobile Collaboration for Disaster Response"

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"Our technologies are starting to work well together because we are working together.
Author:
Neal Lesh

One of OMC's primary goals is to maximize interoperability and data-sharing capabilities among our technologies so that the whole of our collective effort is greater than the sum of the individual parts.

Think of the OMC technologies as a set of Lego-like building blocks that can be snapped together in different ways. It's a great goal in theory, for sure -- but in practice it is more difficult to achieve. There is redundancy, and systems that could and should share data may not. Being open source or championing open standards is necessary -- and we certainly do – but it's not sufficient.
Building the Open Source Mobile "Lego" Pieces for Social Impact

This is a story about progress towards integrating several OMC technologies in Tanzania and some of the lessons we are learning along the way. It illustrates the potential of the OMC ‘Lego’ pieces for mobile for social impact and where we still need to do more work."

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"One major issue that online education has is real time collaboration. Education institutions are communities to collaborate and learn from one another. People often times say the major weaknesses of online education is that you don’t learn some of the same team building skills and social skills that normal students do that get a traditional on campus degree. Depending on what career you are looking into and training for, that face to face collaboration may be important. Most collaboration now a days is either done through a digital medium or documented through some type of a digital medium. Google Wave is going to help make real time, online, cross platform collaboration a reality. "

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The unconference* format creates space for peer-to-peer learning, collaboration and creativity.
At the start, the whole group will gather together and be guided through creating an agenda using open space technology. The exact process is not important to understand in advance – the process will become clear as it happens. The important part is that all those gathered will have the opportunity to put conference sessions on the agenda. No session will be voted off or ‘won’t happen’ for some other reason. All sessions are welcome.

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Connectivity may be rising rapidly up the political agenda, but it has been high on the Digital Business agenda for some time and today we pull together the strands, analysing the implications of a connected planet in this Connected Lives Digital Business special report.

It considers the effects on business of mass collaboration; the change in working behaviours that mobility introduces; and the spotlight it places on skills and generational differences.

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The creators of Wave pitch it as "what email would look like if it were invented today", not several decades ago. But what email "looks like" is as much down to social protocols as to anything else, says Watts.

"It started out as very informal memos; now it's used for absolutely everything and has become much more formal," says Watts. Organisations in particular have, intentionally and otherwise, encouraged people to adopt certain ways of using email that are by now second nature to us.

The cultural norms that will shape Wave's future are yet to be established. But informed crystal-ball gazing is possible, based on what we know about how people use existing technology.

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