Over the past few years collaborative platforms have evolved quite a bit. It’s important for us to consider what makes these collaborative tools what they are. In other words, “what are the capabilities that collaborative tools have now that we didn’t have years ago?” ”  In 2006 Andrew McAfee developed an acronym, SLATES, to help explain what the key capabilities were of emergent collaboration solutions. Keep in mind that just a few years ago many of that collaboration platforms that companies use today didn’t exist. MORE >>

Whatever we choose to call it though, there's little question that we've entered into a "sharing economy," creating an economic landscape wherein both for-profit businesses and non-profit organizations leverage the power of content sharing, to the greatest extent possible, to get the word out about their products, services, programs, and promotions. The Power of Collaborative Consumption The personal arena is by no means exempt from this modern paradigm shift, however. The collaborative mindset is gradually beginning to be applied to production and not simply to consumption. MORE >>

My PR friends will strive to find ways to connect or create community and journalism friends are going to remind me about the need for great content and the digital design camp is going to say it won’t mean anything if it isn’t attractive to the eye. Collaboration is a sign of strength, not weakness and we can make each other and our clients even more successful. In fact, social media in itself IS collaboration. So when you find your chief: Despite that wide range of professional backgrounds, social media professionals tend to be very collaborative. MORE >>

Table of Contents. 12 Filtering Tips for Better Information in Half the Time: RSS, Del.icio.us Topics: Low-Information Diet. The NYT article was very well done, but the truth is that I get some of my information from many different sources, including friends, professors, and occasionally — yes — even the much maligned service staff. Let’s start with something we can all agree on: In a digital world, the race goes not to the person with the most information, but the person with the best combination of low-volume and high-relevancy information. MORE >>

It’s also a call for collaboration. Collaboration is one of the ideas we encounter a lot in a social business context. However, in this case, I call upon YOUR collaboration. This morning I launched the idea of c reating a collaborative (e)Book on social business on Twitter, it seemed to interest people, despite the day and time. First of all, to show the power of collaboration. high definition video conferencing adds another social dimension to teleconferencing); and (b), enables new modes of collaboration (e.g., Please do collaborate on this one. MORE >>