Social-software. Stigmergy. Welcome to the Cooperation Commons — CooperationCommons. A New Year's Challenge: Get the Crowd to Predict | NewAssig. The Information Commons. In the mid-20th century, R. Buckminster Fuller proposed the construction of a monumental globe to be suspended above New York’s East River within view of the United Nations building. It was to be covered with millions of tiny light bulbs, essentially forming an immense, spherical computer display.
It would present a constantly-updated graphical summary of the various facts and statistics comprising “ground truth” of the state of the planet. It was Fuller’s belief that such a “God’s eye” view of Earth and the activities of its inhabitants would empower and inspire the UN delegates –and everyone else– to better consider all the consequences of their decisions and thus be more likely to “do the right thing” from a global perspective. Writing in different times and from very different points of view, Fuller and Gelernter describe a common vision: that technology has made it possible for individuals to apprehend the world and its activities as a single system. The Opportunity Foundations. Openspaceworld.org. Collaboration Loop - Bioteaming: Applying Mother Nature's L. ThinkCycle: Open Collaborative Design. Dialogue Mapping. The icons represent the basic elements of the Dialogue Mapping™ grammar (called IBIS): Questions, Ideas, Pros and Cons.
This is a very simple map, meant to convey the basics of IBIS. In real meetings and projects the maps are much larger, more complex, and can be nested deeply. Here's an example of some larger maps from a 2-day strategic planning meeting: This combination of (i) a shared hypertext display, (ii) a trained facilitator, and (iii) a conversational grammar is Dialogue Mapping™. In Dialogue Mapping™, as the conversation unfolds and the map grows, each person can see a summary of the meeting discussion so far.
Some Benefits of Dialogue Mapping™ include: Each participant's contribution is heard and acknowledged in the map. Each participant can see how their comments relate to others. The group sees where they are, where they've come from, and where they are going, and is thus self-correcting if they get "off-topic. " A Key to Dialogue Mapping™: Shared Display. WWW Collaboration Projects. This is a list of resources about collaboration technologies and WWW projects that support collaboration by participants. Please add others to the responses below or on the appropriate page.
Dimensions of Cyberspace I have categorized the types of systems based on their general capabilities. Some systems combine several capabilities but I list them only once by their major capability. The categories of collaboration capabilities may be considered dimensions of cyberspace. I list several dimensions here but they should be described more fully elsewhere: Synchronous vs Asynchronous Focused vs Free-form (constrained or unconstrained input?) Same (or different) time vs Same (or different) Place Active vs Passive - who waits and who initiates? One-way vs Two-way vs Multi-way Distributed vs Centralized Persistent vs Ephemeral (stored or merely forwarded?)
Private vs Group vs Public Moderated (by one or peer-reviewed) vs Unmoderated Read-only vs Read/Write vs Write-only Any others? Comp.groupware FAQ. Watson | Cambridge | Collaborative User Experienc. DISCUS: Distributed Innovation and Scalable Collaboration in Unc. Collaborative writing software online with Writeboard. Write, sh.