Collaboration tools are critical to our effectiveness. Over the last two years, my courses have served as testing grounds for two locally-grown, student-designed tools:  Acceledge  and  Piazzza. They tell me they have the following requirements for collaboration tools: Privacy. Basically Facebook for the classroom. MORE >>

Kennedy and the French Revolution » 16/06/07 | Why people dont use collaboration tools By Shawn. Filed in Collaboration. David Pollard offered for anyone on the net to join him is a joint collaboration project using Writely. The topic: Why are conversation and collaboration tools so underused? MORE >>

Using the Cynefin framework, Shawn at the Anecdote blog takes a look at the question of When should we collaborate? It’s always useful to define your terms before starting this kind of discussion, and Shawn obliges with the following: So what is collaboration then? MORE >>

I recently spoke with Deb Lavoy, Director of Product Marketing for Digital and Social Media at OpenText, about promoting collaboration and enterprise design in the 21 st century. Deb went on to discuss three types of collaboration. First there is creative collaboration that is intended to create something. could not agree more. MORE >>

In the previous two posts ( Shawn's on his forthcoming presentation and Chandni's about collaboration between Google and P&G) have used specific examples to illustrate how collaborative practices can add value to an organisation. In many cases, the value of collaboration is difficult to articulate using numbers. MORE >>