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Some backlash against e-mail is beginning to be seen as people realize that the inundations of e-mail is leaving to innefficiency. (This is also true for educational organizations -- too much productivity is being lost in email when we should be creating those reports using wikis and reflecting using blogs.) This lets one see how businesses are realizing that moving from e-mail collaboration to global collaboration using blogs and wikis may just be more efficient - -there are some new studies showing this as well.

This lets one see how businesses are realizing that moving from e-mail collaboration to global collaboration using blogs and wikis may just be more efficient - -there are some new studies showing this as well.

Fascinating article about cross-disciplinary collaboration. This is becoming something that is possible through new means of using the Internet.

A new site that is trying to use collaboration to write a lengthy document .

I wrote this post to outline the progression I take my classes through to get them to the state where they may collaborate directly with students in another country. I put a lot of time and thought into the progression of collaborative skills.

This talks about from an educational standpoint how I take students towards a flat classroom project.

This incredible chart says it all about the importance of wiki collaboration. This should also be a message to bloated bureaucracies looking to squeeze that last bit of efficiency out of already overworked staff. This is an important chart for horizon project students to include, I believe.

this is a very important graphic for including in the Horizon Project material.

An excellent project for 4th - 6th grade sudents from Jennifer Wagner called the Prince Caspian project which will allow teachers to collaborate with other teachers around the world about the book and the upcoming movie "Prince caspian."

This project will allow students in grades 4-6 to collaborate to talk about Prince Caspian.

This could be an example where Open Source software will challenge commercial producers of web collaboration software. Will it be a Linux? Skype? Apache Server? Audacity?

Dimdim is web collaboration software that is free and is open source. It has become available to everyone in the middle of April 2008

This is a website where tv enthusiasts are sharing videos and collaborating. This is an example of how television and all of our entertainment is evolving to become more customized. In addition to creating personal learning networks, we will also be creating personal entertainment networks (PEN's) -- all via this amazing thing we call RSS. Understanding RSS is not only important for learning but just living your life. User created content is here to stay.

This is a website that people are using for TV enthusiasts and they are collaborating and sharing videos.

referenced in Scope Conf SAF2008

Look at how diigo has propagated through the internet through "word of tweet" (from twitter.)

I find this fascinating that diigo has made the "top twitter" cloud. There are certainly a lot of people following it. They are very responsive and have done a great job. They deserve it. As Horizon looks at collaboration and mashups, Diigo is something that the students will want to look at, both as a service AND at the way it has spread like wildfire, through basically "word of tweet."

Collaborative writing project between two classroom teachers -- it will be done on a Google Doc and it is between elementary classrooms -- you may sign up now! Lisa Parisi and Brian Crosby have set it up.

Opensource web meeting software. Interesting.

This new platform for allowing people to meet using the internet with free open source software is very exciting!

Don Tapscott is keynoting this year's Horizon Project -- we are very excited. This is the page where he will "deliver" his keynote which will be posted some time around April 15th, 2008. Mass collaboration does change everything -- we can connect with authors such as this!

A wikinomics concept: an established company combining with Google Apps because of the collaborative aspects.

Salesforce has integrated Google's online productivity applications with its on-demand CRM (customer relationship management) offerings.

Information summarizing an article on online safety -- something important for education subgroups to cover.

Business people and management should read this article about the transformation of business by using workplace communities. "Workplace communities are designed to solve workplace-related challenges" -- they focus on tasks. I would find it interesting to see a business REALLY use technology to change things. Having the business in a business network (OK a NING) and let people tag their posts with the business related PROBLEMS they are having and blog, video, or photograph it-- the tag cloud would tell the business IMMEDIATELY what the problems are in the company. The problem with this model is that there are few corporate executives who REALLY want to know the problems within their organizations. They don't want to be problem solvers, just opportunity creators. However, when managers open their eyes (and I'm a former General Manager myself) and see that two things give business opportunity: problem solving and innovation. And they are directly related. True innovation solves problems. Read this article and think about how you may solve problems using the networks you may now create. If you don't want everyone to know, keep it private and only allow people in your company in.

Important article about why businesses need to change.

I'm reading some great posts from students about the keynote. This one in particular was very captivating. In the digital age, we do not have to strike in front of the White House. We effect change by telling the world the truth from the comfort of our own homes using the Internet with facebook, myspace, blogger, and so much more."

Global Cooling Project live concert from Toorak College Melbourne, Saturday April 19, 2008

Microsoft continues to attempt to negotiate with Yahoo -- this is an important piece of information to take a look at for the horizon project students -- Microsoft + Yahoo = A viable competitor for google? Is Google hurting Microsoft that much? These are things to look at as you review emerging trends.

The Microsoft + Yahoo collaborations and their competition with Google are important trends for the government_business groups to understand and review.

This is a great way to emped all types of documents directly into a blog post -- I'l be teseting this on my blog. This is very cool and is yet another way that people are sharing content. It is less about WHAT is being shared and more just about the fact that we can share it.

This is a website that lets documents be embedded in a web page and is another example of how collaboration is happening.