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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.

From Viral Video To Billboard 100

In June 2009 a new urban legend was born-that the power generated by cell phones can cook popcorn. A series of videos on YouTube appeared to show four users popping a table full of corn kernels simply by pointing their ringing phones at them. The implication for the casual observer was clear: if cell phones emit enough radiation to pop corn, imagine what they are doing to your brain!

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ver the past 18 months, this was our conversation starter with many companies and individuals. Helping our clients prevent breaches or find their stolen data is our business. If you have been following information security, or even if you haven't, you have probably heard of Hold Security and our work. In October 2013, we identified a data breach with Adobe Systems. Later in December that year, we independently identified and tracked the Target breach and in February 2014 we identified over 360 million stolen credentials trafficked on the black market. Overall, Hold Security played a role in identifying and helping victims with most of the largest breaches.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.