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How will this start changing the game? Josh Korr of Publishing 2.0 reports that about a week ago, four journalists from Washington state began reporting a major local story in collaboration with each other on Twitter. Writes Korr:Those four journalists weren't in the same newsroom. In fact, they all work for different media companies. And here's the best part: Some of them have never even met in person.Could journalists have discovered the same thing we have also been exploring collectively online? That collaboration strengthens a network and draws more readers, not less. I also agree with Korr that news organizations need to start investing in smart journalists who get the power of cooperation. To summarize what these fine professionals did: Acted in real time and focused on the reporting of the events - in line with the Twitter culture of immediacy as well as a sense of urgency for their readers at the respective mastheads Collaborated with each other to cover the story as it was unfolding instead of worrying about the credit - imagine the first cross-news organization team that wins a Pulitzer, now wouldn't that be news? Provided higher quality news than just one person doing the reporting. There was some skepticism in the comments to Korr's post. Maybe this is not the first time journalists network for a news story. This collaboration so open on Twitter seems quite novel to me.I know some of my readers are journalists or are studying journalism. What possibilities do you see...

While offering only 3 concrete pointers for collaboration, the article does paint a positive future for twitter.

"What are you going to get done with just a standalone Twitter? You're going to have a lot of conversations around something -- have conversations about content, collaboration, and people," says Ross Mayfield, CEO of Socialtext. "That's why I think something that is a conversational tool like this really benefits from a direct tie-in to the way you're otherwise working."

Organizations that want benefits from social network tools will need to make some selective, deliberate and thoughtful choices that are different from the most highly restrictive "need to know" policies. For some more high-level thoughts on the relationship between social network and the org chart, see some high level thoughts on that topic, see: http://www.alevin.com/?p=1280

A collaborative effort to teach teachers about Twitter.

Overall, Twitter is best thought of as a message queuing/routing system built on top of a cache/repository platform.

Find new twitter friends

WhoShouldiFollow looks at who your Twitter friends follow to suggest new people. By adjusting the sliders on the results page, you can give greater preference in the ranking to less popular Twitter users, or those who are near you. The algorithm is an item-to-item collaborative filter, somewhat similar to how Amazon makes recommendations.

Twitter for Teachers - a collaborative effort to teach teachers about twitter

Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

vinepeek.com/ shows you newly posted Vines in realtime. Sit back and watch the world in 6 second bites. Best viewed on a desktop browser. This stream is coming straight from Vine and is unmoderated. You have been warned! :) Unlike lightning, sometimes Vines strike twice. Please be patient if you see a Vine more than once. If it seems to freeze, refresh the page.

Are you in the right conversations with the people that matter?

Breaking News brings you the biggest stories as they happen, 24 hours a day, from hundreds of news sources across the globe. On many stories, we combine eyewitness accounts shared on social media from people at the scene. We publish on BreakingNews.com, @breakingnews on Twitter, Facebook and on three mobile apps.

Wondering to tweet or not? retweet or not? Tadvise can help you! Tadvise is an advisor and assistant for Twitter. It analyses your followers and also the followers of your followers and reports you if the tweet that you are going to send is interesting (or relevant) for them or not. It also recommends you several followers, who can efficiently retweet your tweet... plus more features... Tadvise aims to boost collaboration by encouraging users to (re)tweet worthy items and thus helping you to get only appropriate stuff.

Fun and useful metrics for your Instagram account

Tweagle is a sleek Twitter client combining the best of Twitter and Foursquare. With Tweagle, users can listen to the voice of the city and easily share their location via Foursquare, checking in and tweeting at the same time.