Maximillian Odom's List: 5 Facts Of internet Collaboration

• • The three Cs this contains is critical thinking,connectivity,compatibility. I think this is a really good resource on how all three of my Cs go together.
• The digital collaborative software / service market is just starting to heat up, I believe – with the proliferation of broadband (coupled with the rising cost of travel). New services are popping up every month, making it much more likely that non-technical industries will start adjusting to adopt this new, largely efficient form of communication. New?! Hasn’t it been around forever? Seemingly so, but I’m still trying to get people to understand that you don’t need to be physically in the same room as someone else to get a point across to them.
• Together, with a handful of friends from our live channel, we’ve come up with a list of cases for online meeting and collaboration. A big THANK YOU to Kat, Fort, Freekie, CCMike and everyone else who contributed ideas for this post. You need not be geek to apply:

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• Learning  to leverage new technologies is one of the intangibles that enables one business to survive while another flounders. One of the latest tech advances that is separating the risers from those falling flat is the ability to hire and maintain remote workers. Being able to hire people from across the country and across the globe makes it possible to hire the perfect candidate for a position regardless of the physical location. This allows businesses to create the most effective staff without having to relocate new hires.

   

    The ability to hire across the globe creates an entirely new set of logistical problems. Luckily, these problems can be solved using the very same technologies that allow you to hire in the first place. Video conferencing allows people from multiple locations to communicate in real-time. It eliminates the need to coordinate schedules and book costly flights. The savings on hotel accommodations and airfare are enough to cover the cost of web and video conferencing software several times over

• Considering the financial forecast for the upcoming business year, it is unsurprising that small businesses are tightening their belts and purse strings. The unfortunate reality that most small businesses face is the fact that you have to spend money to make money. Fortunately, there are ways to spend less money and still realize a positive cash return. A great way to cut costs and save time is to reassess how meetings are handled.

   

  Traditionally, the face-to-face meeting has been the most valued way to collaborate on projects of any nature. The primary drawbacks to in-person meetings are the rising costs and lost time due to travel. Another difficulty of in-person meeting is trying to find a convenient time for everyone to meet. While face-to-face meetings are still ideal, travel expenses and scheduling issues can be reduced if a business is flexible and utilizes online collaboration.
• Online collaboration allows people to meet and work together by using the internet. Three popular solutions are document services, customer relationship management services, and web conferencing services. Google Docs and Box.net are document services that provide online office programs that simplify document sharing. Salesforce.com and Microsoft Dynamics are customer relationship management programs that keep track of information relating to clients in an online database. WebEx and Microsoft Office Live Meeting are web conference programs that allow participants to meet online in real-time.

• • context,continuity,citation are in my rsource. My resource gives a lot of facts.
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    —Nikola Tesla 
• Science is a prototypical example of collaboration, from closely coupled collaboration within a lab to the very loosely coupled collaboration of the grant scientific enterprise over centuries. However, Science has been slow to adopt modern tools and methods for collaboration. And the efforts to adopt or translate those new tools and methods have been broadly (and loosely) characterized as “Science 2.0” and “Open Science”, very roughly corresponding to “Web 2.0” and “Open Source”. 
• In the longer term, OA may lead to improving the methods of scientific collaboration, like peer review, and allowing new forms of meta-collaboration. An early example of the former is PLoS ONE, a rethinking of the journal as an electronic publication without a limitation on the number of articles published and with the addition of user rating and commenting. An example of the latter would be machine analysis and indexing of journal articles, potentially allowing all scientific literature to be treated as a database, and therefore queryable—at least all OA literature. These more sophisticated applications of OA often require not just access, but permission to redistribute and manipulate, thus a rapid movement to publication under a Creative Commons license that permits any use with attribution—a practice followed by both PLoS and BioMed Central. 

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• Videogame players have solved a molecular puzzle that stumped scientists for years and could hold the key to finding a cure for AIDS.
  

  A team of gamers needed just ten days to produce an answer to an enzyme riddle that had eluded experts for more than a decade.
  

  The feat was accomplished using a collaborative online game called Foldit, which has been likened to Tetris and encourages players to fold a protein into intricate shapes.

• Dr. Nielsen and other advocates for “open science” say science can accomplish much more, much faster, in an environment of friction-free collaboration over the Internet. And despite a host of obstacles, including the skepticism of many established scientists, their ideas are gaining traction.

   Open-access archives and journals like arXiv and the Public Library of Science (PLoS) have sprung up in recent years. GalaxyZoo, a citizen-science site, has classified millions of objects in space, discovering characteristics that have led to a raft of scientific papers.

   On the collaborative blog MathOverflow, mathematicians earn reputation points for contributing to solutions; in another math experiment dubbed the Polymath Project, mathematicians commenting on the Fields medalist Timothy Gower’s blog in 2009 found a new proof for a particularly complicated theorem in just six weeks.

• • Context,critical thinking, content show up a lot in my resource.  It tells you a lot about context of whats in it and the critical thinking is the science involved behind it. 

• In this paper,³ several of us involved in the development and evolution of the Internet share our views of its origins and history. This history revolves around four distinct aspects. There is the technological evolution that began with early research on packet switching and the ARPANET (and related technologies), and where current research continues to expand the horizons of the infrastructure along several dimensions, such as scale, performance, and higher-level functionality. There is the operations and management aspect of a global and complex operational infrastructure. There is the social aspect, which resulted in a broad community of Internauts working together to create and evolve the technology. And there is the commercialization aspect, resulting in an extremely effective transition of research results into a broadly deployed and available information infrastructure.

   

  The Internet today is a widespread information infrastructure, the initial prototype of what is often called the National (or Global or Galactic) Information Infrastructure. Its history is complex and involves many aspects - technological, organizational, and community. And its influence reaches not only to the technical fields of computer communications but throughout society as we move toward increasing use of online tools to accomplish electronic commerce, information acquisition, and community operations.

• acebook, Twitter, YouTube, instant messaging, video conferencing, web meetings: These and many other collaboration and social media platforms are now an everyday part of people’s lives around the world. They are also finding their way into enterprise communications and management strategies. But are these social media applications and technologies ready for an even greater challenge—helping companies and government agencies successfully navigate major business change programs
• Companies struggle to be successful with such initiatives. According to numerous studies, anywhere from 50 percent to 80 percent of change programs do not live up to expectations. Although the reasons for failure vary, many can be traced to the difficulty with managing multiple talent and organizational elements effectively across a global enterprise—creating a shared vision, gaining buy-in across locations and levels, dealing with expectations and handling the day-to-day upheavals inherent in change. Accenture believes that these challenges are well suited to the capabilities of social media and collaboration tools.

• Such fundamental change in American education, from a global laggard to a global leader, will require acknowledgement of problems for which there are existing solutions and those that have remained stubbornly intractable. For the latter type of challenge, an education sector that embraces and supports educational innovation is essential. To meet the challenge, there needs to be commitment, vision, and creativity from stakeholders across the education sector—from experienced educators who work with students every day, from entrepreneurs who may have never worked in a classroom but may have the next great idea for education, and from education funders that have both contributed some of the most important reforms in education and undermined the scaling of effective innovations. Moreover, all of these stakeholders must be communicating and collaborating with each other.

    

  The Department of Education is taking the lead in supporting such a collaborative environment by launching an online community, the Open Innovation Portal, where education stakeholders of all types can spotlight areas of need, propose and suggest improvements to solutions, and fund, implement, and improve these solutions in and outside of the classroom. Through this effort, the Department seeks to create an infrastructure that will support widespread, transformative innovations and the focused, incremental improvements that will be required to ensure that every American child has the opportunities that a world-leading education system should provide.

     

• • Connectivity, comparability, copyright are in my resources from this article. Connectivity is when one can connect with multiple if not thousands over the web at one single based time. Comparabilty also shows in this resource.
• Web-based collaborative services are becoming increasingly popular.  Examples include chat rooms, virtual meetings, and distance learning  environments. In this paper we analyze functionality and architecture  of two types of real-time collaborative systems: a system for supporting  online meetings and a system for supporting distance learning sessions.  We discuss security issues that arise during design, deployment,  and use of these systems, such as authentication, authorization,  communication security, auditing, and integration with existing  security frameworks. We identify currently available security solutions  and evaluate their applicability in addressing identified issues.  We also propose new solutions where currently used technologies  do not seem adequate.
• The  diversity of the services available on the World Wide Web is growing.  The users, apart from accessing the most popular applications such  as browsing documents and performing purchases, can also participate  in online auctions, chat rooms, virtual meetings, distance learning  sessions and other activities. The World Wide Web is becoming increasingly  a virtual place where people not only operate in isolation but also  interact with other Web users. Still, even though the existing infrastructure  supports relatively secure Web browsing and purchasing transactions,  there is no generic framework for building secure systems for on-line  real-time collaboration.

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• In a new global study of Internet usage, there is an observable shift that mirrors much of the world's current demographic and economic growth, says the report's author Soumitra Dutta, Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Whereas in the past, the Internet was dominated by Western sources and users, it is now becoming an Eastern-centric space, Dutta tells Arabic Knowledge@Wharton.

   

  Dutta additionally notes that there are shared attitudes towards Internet usage around the world, and a demand for some governance to ensure security and the reliability of information accessible online.

• Yet despite this, the survey, encompassing the views of large enterprises and small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs), found that a quarter will continue with collaboration plans, despite security concerns. Only 15% of those surveyed said that they had resolved their security issues and were pressing ahead with collaboration plans while the remaining 10% did not have collaboration plans.

• "With the advent of interactive Web 2.0 technologies, malware purveyors have more opportunities to insert their programs onto Web sites and spread them to users worldwide.  However, we advise companies to embrace collaboration, but deal with security in advance. ”

   

  Paul Simmonds, Jericho Forum board member and Global IS Integrated Assurance Director of AstraZeneca, added, “A quarter of those surveyed will proceed with collaboration, despite security concerns, which is a major indication that collaboration is a prominent direction for business, even those who have not yet addressed security.  However, to collaborate securely requires a supportive architecture…Without that foundational work in place, many companies may choose to implement insecure solutions.”

• • Continuity, citation, creditability are the three Cs in this resource.

• Why is mass online collaboration useful in solving mathematical problems? Part of the answer is that even the best mathematicians can learn a great deal from people with complementary knowledge, and be stimulated to consider ideas in directions they wouldn’t have considered on their own. Online tools create a shared space where this can happen, a short-term collective working memory where ideas can be rapidly improved by many minds. These tools enable us to scale up creative conversation, so connections that would ordinarily require fortuitous serendipity instead happen as a matter of course. This speeds up the problem-solving process, and expands the range of problems that can be solved by the human mind.

   

   

• One of the things that’s fascinating to me about the ability of the internet with respect to science is just this – more conversations, quicker feedback. I think that a perfect case in point is the OPERA group’s announcement that they’d measured neutrinos travelling faster than the speed of light. Their preliminary findings led to a slew of criticisms, commentary, and discussions of the implications the truth of the findings would have for physics. That in turn is leading the OPERA group to conduct a new, more refined experiment.

   

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• Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

• .Collaboration posits such a powerful business concept because it puts people and context back into decision-making. While the first wave of the Internet allowed connectivity and trading algorithms to move trillions of dollars daily on a global basis, it fell short on solutions where insight and awareness were required. Today we see collaboration as a transcendent strategy for business, crossing boundaries of location, time, language, and corporate or government structures. Powerful, multi-modal, cross-company collaboration solutions that unleash innovation and productivity are the heart of what we call the”collaboration effect.” It is a profoundly simple concept: put people back into the center of communications and decision-making, even if they are not members of the same work-team or company, or don’t even work on the same continent.As business becomes increasingly digital, work is more of an activity than a physical place; thus the physical workplace must become a virtual”workspace.” Successful workspaces must not only support replication of business processes and communications, but actually allow them to morph or go away.
• .Collaboration is the critical next step in the Internet journey as we move from a global culture of transactions to one of interactions. We have learned that Web 2.0, the desire to build community, is manifested in business as collaborationCollaboration is important for the rapid globalization of innovation and trade: not only for developed nations to sell to developing nations, but for the rapid importing of new business processes and products from emerging markets.