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Collaboration is a very intense way of working together while still retaining the separate identities, autonomy, and decision-making authority of the organizations involved. The beauty of collaboration is the acknowledgment that each organization has a separate and special function, a power that it brings to the joint effort. At the Collaboration : same time, each separate organization provides valuable services or products often critical to the health and well-being of their community. When the problems have been addressed, or the system has been improved, the collaboration is over.

The classroom is fundamentally a collaborative enterprise, so it stands to reason that elevating classroom collaboration to a high level will engender learning. Success in collaboration will also help students transition successfully from the classroom to a Collaboration: professional career where the ability to work effectively with others can be paramount. To that end, I thought it would be valuable here to explore skills known as the "seven norms for collaborative work" (Bill Baker, Group Dynamics Associates, Berkeley) and to think about their relationship to classroom experiences.

Companies need their critical workforces to perform smarter, faster and more productively. Achieving that goal requires embedding collaborative technologies deep into processes and incentivizing collaborative behaviors-ultimately transforming the way organizations turn knowledge into action. Collaboration platforms should do more than help employees talk about their work; they should create new ways for employees to do their work.

arry Sanger made Infobitt, a free, open content news resource he's calling "Wikipedia for the news." No, it's not Wikinews; this site grabs facts from news sources, summarizes them and organizes the information to make it a news go-to. Like our beloved online encyclopedia, Infobitt is a collaborative effort.

People waste huge amounts of time travelling to meetings, processing emails and simply trying to track down the right people in their organisations to speak to.

New tools are changing the way people work with each other, their companies' partners, and their customers.