Collaboration is a key skill for building communities

Collaboration is based on commuication evolving from speech, writing and phone to modern PC-to-PC and mobile device communication. With the evolution of PCs, the world wide web and mobile devices human communication is now available anywhere and anytime . This adds a new dimension to information gathering and distribution. The nobel laureate Herbert A. Simon postulated that every computer scientist has a responsibility to think deeply about the implications of flooding your audience with information and applications.   

The most common collaboration techniques are today:
Mail, fax, phone(wire, mobile, VoIP), SMS, web site, eMail, eLearning, instant messaging, collaborative workspace, web conferencing, wiki, blog, jam

Every community should be aware of conventional, people facing and advanced collaboration techniques and the usage of these techniques in different situations. Most people, companies and organizations do not realize the value of optmized communication and collaboration using advanced web techniques. Horizontal, collaborative portals based on open standards provide an ideal platform for integration and management of collaboration in communities. Users want to communicate their way - you better serve them. More to come and looking forward to references and contributions. Send mail

References

Pervasive Computing
Burkhardt, Henn et al.

Herbert A. Simon

Shared Spaces Report

The book of the month:
Surviving the micromanger
   by Harry Chambers

Facts

Estimated cost of managing a single eMail not including processing 5 $

Number of complex phone calls a human can handle per day: 15