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Public, private, and nonprofit institutions and organizations often work together in a coalition (an organization of organizations working together for a common purpose) with communities, neighborhoods, and constituencies. In this paper, coalition is the term used for a multiorganizational process that is also called a partnership or a collaborative (state-of-the-art resources on coalition building are available at www.ahecpartners.org).  Usually, coalition strategies for working together are described as networking, coordinating, cooperating, or collaborating, although the use of these terms is often confusing.  This paper suggests definitions of these four strategies used by coalitions to help clarify the most appropriate use of each in particular settings.  Although the examples that follow the definitions are based in health care, the four strategies are utilized in addressing a wide variety of issues.

The HUB has it's own special recipe for collaboration. Here's a quick guide on how to create a meaningful community from a beautiful space.

« Sharing as accountabilityThe beauty of endless distractions in discussion forums » Minding mapping in the Social Media Classroom January 30, 2013 by jennymackness Mindmapping is a big feature of Howard Rheingold's course - Towards a Literacy of Cooperation. We are not only expected to collaboratively mindmap in the live sessions…. …… but also the first individual mission (task) requires the production of a mindmap.

Gardner Campbell (to the Open Education Conference in Vancouver in October last year) The Ecologies of Yearning - http://openedconference.org/2012/program/archive-of-sessions/day-1/day1-9am-c300/ The talk is not about cooperation or collaboration, but about 'opening' as a way of learning. He draws heavily on Gregory Bateson's 'Steps to an Ecology of Mind' and his ideas about learning as a 'double bind' experience and transcontextual moments.

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 book by Nobel Memorial Prize winner in Economics Daniel Kahneman which summarizes research that he conducted over decades, often in collaboration with Amos Tversky.[1][2] It covers all three phases of his career: his early days working on cognitive bias, his work on prospect theory, and his later work on happiness.

The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT) is a package of resources and activities that enable groups of people anywhere to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for problems impacting their community. The toolkit provides a dynamic framework that integrates knowledge and action to solve challenges. Designed to harness the benefits of group action and the power of open sharing, the activities draw on each participant's strengths and perspectives as the group works to accomplish a common goal.

Yesterday marked the opening day of the Clinton Foundation's "Health Matters" conference in Palm Springs. I had heard a bit of advance word about the conference from a friend who was headed down there, and I had armed him with a copy of Future Perfect to give to Clinton if the opportunity arose. But the gift turned out to be unnecessary. Apparently, Clinton had just finished reading Future Perfect on his own, and spontaneously brought up a number of its arguments in an opening conversation with NBC's Nancy Snyderman. Along the way, he managed to say kind words about three other books of mine. 

recommended by Howard Rheingold,  He says: "Mark Elliott claims that Wikipedia is an example of how people use online media stigmergically." Mark Elliott says (from the site): "As stigmergy is a method of communication in which individuals communicate with one another by modifying their local environment, it is a logical extension to apply the term to many types (if not all) of Web-based communication, especially media such as the wiki."