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Here Shirky started talking about the importance of managing collaboration effectively. Large collaborative projects aren't, in fact, large collaborative projects according to Shirky. They're small collaborative projects with tight groups, that integrate very large amounts of small participatory effort. To put it another way, projects like Wikipedia and the Linux kernel may have thousands of contributors - but it's a small core of contributors who do the bulk of the work and integrate the work from others who only contribute a small amount. It's also important, says Shirky, that people cannot join the project too easily. Even given the presumption that all the participants have goodwill towards the project, he says that it shouldn't be too easy to change every aspect of a project. Some parts of the system should be easy to change, some parts should be hard.

Infographic about a culture of collaboration in the workplace`

The brainstorming sites listed here may hold ideas for an enterprise application for virtual meetings or offsite notetaking.

This guide is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Pioneer Portfolio, which supports bold ideas at the cutting edge of health and health care, in partnership with Institute for the Future. Our goal is to gather and organize the world's collective self-tracking resources in one place, in a way that is useful and encourages collaboration between self-tracking experts and beginners who are just starting out.

Explore, Visualize, and Publish Geographic Information.  Build your own mapping portal and publish it to the world or to just a few collaborators. WorldMap is open source software.

"The 'Cisco On-Stage TelePresence Experience' was an ambitious collaboration between Cisco and Musion Systems, which took place during the opening of Cisco's Globalization Centre East in Bangalore, India. Musion seamlessly integrated their 3D holographic display technology with Cisco's TelePresence's system to create the world's first real time virtual presentation."

Organizers of NASA's first Open Source Summit have released a summary of its proceedings that could serve as a model for other federal agencies wanting to conduct similar conferences for their own open source developer communities. The 85-page report documents how the event was organized, collaboration tools used, user statistics, attendee list, schedule and media coverage.

Very cool use of Google Moderator to try and brainstorm what Egypt should do now that Mubarak is gone.