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The word "collaboration"  is creating lots of confusion these days. In several recent client projects, I've seen firsthand to what extent different interpretations of "collaboration" have triggered serious misunderstandings and even internal conflict. I can't count the number of meetings I've been in where people use the word collaboration to describe quite different things.

"In this hyper-connected economy and with the rapid growth of cloud-based social technologies, collaboration applications have become an increasingly important part of how work gets done. Many companies are now using these tools to improve efficiencies and sharpen their business practices. With many factors to consider, choosing and implementing the most effective collaborative app(s) for your business can dramatically improve your company's bottom line."

Good presentation on the topic of Networks and Collaboration. Uses the Prezi application for the presentation.

Over the past year I have been working on change initiatives to improve collaboration and knowledge-sharing with two large companies, one of them a multinational. In each case, implementation has boiled down to two components: individual skills & organizational support. Effective organizational collaboration comes about when workers regularly narrate their work within a structure that encourages transparency and shares power & decision-making. I have also learned that changing work routines can be a messy process that requires significant time, much of it dedicated to modelling behaviours. 

A new economic model has arrived. Named by TIME as one of the "10 Ideas That Will Change the World", collaborative consumption describes the shift in consumer values from ownership to access. Together, entire communities and cities around the world are using network technologies to do more with less by renting, lending, swapping, bartering, gifting and sharing products on a scale never before possible

There is a desire to develop more effective knowledge sharing and a culture of collaboration in most organisations, but little recognition of what this means in terms of staff development and overcoming barriers to change. The enormous growth of social media tools and social/professional networks over the past few years has created new opportunities and new challenges for people and organisations that want to embrace this dynamic world of social interaction and fluid knowledge flows. However, It is not widely recognised that collaboration and knowledge sharing are skills and practices that rarely get taught. It's something we may learn on the job in a hit or miss fashion. Some people are natural at it. Others struggle to understand it.

"Faveeo is a collaborative discovery, filtering and recommendation system that helps users and companies find quality information and articles quickly and easily."

Tracky is a social collaboration platform that bridges the gap between your personal and professional circles. If you need to get something done or if you're looking to connect with other doers, Tracky is the place. Check out what Tracky's amazing doers are up to.

"DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought - and opening reasoning and action to collaborative questioning and iterative improvement."

Throughout the history of the Internet, there has been an evolution of web standards. Due to these transformations, today, "the number of devices connected to the Internet exceeds the number of people on Earth." Vitamin Talent has collaborated with Eric Meyer and Jeffrey Zeldman, founders of An Event Apart, to create this fantastic infographic detailing the changes of web standards during

We are moving to the world of the sons of Socrates, where dialogue and guidance are key competencies… a world where the capability to find information and turn it into knowledge at the point-of-need provides the key competitive advantage, where knowing the right people to ask the right questions of is more likely to lead to success than any amount of internally-held knowledge and skill.

This one day course provides a practical and detailed introduction to Web 2.0 tools and techniques that will support more effective collaboration and knowledge sharing, and will give greater confidence to staff that may be on the periphery of the socio-technology changes that are becoming increasingly prevalent in both their professional and private lives.

Facebook Groups is a new product from Facebook where they allow you to bundle friends into packs. You get to form your own communications networks and you are able to collaborate and communicate more effectively as a result. It is like a normal e-mail send list but with more social functionality. Sort of like the way a Skype group works, but with e-mail as well

Google Sites is the collaborative website development tool that is part of the Google Apps Suite. The Google Sites tool allows users to quickly create internal and external websites. In this post, I debunk ten common myths about Google Sites

Here is some good news to start the year. A new McKinsey report, The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday, suggests that there are many benefits to be derived from using "collaborative Web 2.0 technologies." aka enterprise 2.0.

Cohere is a visual tool to create, connect and share Ideas.Back them up with websites. Support or challenge them. Embed them to spread virally. Discover who - literally - connects with your thinking.

"An Evidence Hub is designed to help your members add their insights where they'll make the highest impact, and through the use of different visualizations/maps, helps answer questions such as: - Who in my region is working on this problem? - Are there any partnerships between projects in these two areas, on this theme? - What are the key challenges we're facing? - Who has potential solutions to these, and what's the evidence that - they work? What evidence-based claims can we make with confidence? - What are the most controversial issues?"

Welcome to the Digital Engagement Cookbook. The purpose of this site is simple: to help you to explore the new opportunities that the digital world offers for engaging with and empowering citizens and consumers. It contains one of the most comprehensive, categorised collections of Digital Engagement methods on the web.

"If someone asked you for the three words that would sum up your reputation, what would you say?" Rachel Botsman asks us. "The answer to this question will become profoundly important in an age where reputation will become your most important asset."

We've re-started the Wikimapia blog aimed to encourage our contributors and share most amusing places and latest news on Wikimapia with you. Several articles, that you may find interesting, are already posted there.