Let's Stop Confusing Cooperation and Teamwork with Collaboration. Often the words collaboration, coordination, and cooperation are used to describe effective teamwork. But they are not the same, and when we use these words interchangeably, we dilute their meaning and diminish the potential for creating powerful, collaborative workplaces. Collaboration has been a big word in the news lately, most recently due to Marissa Mayer’s explanation of her decision to bring Yahoo employees back to the office: “To become the absolute best place to work, communication and collaboration will be important, so we need to be working side-by-side.” Mayer’s belief that we work together better when we have real relationships, and that it is easier to build relationships when you have face-to-face contact is not unfounded. Coordination and cooperation is essential for effective and efficient work accomplishment, and some research supports the notion that some face-to-face time makes a big difference.
Definitions. All three of these are important. Jake Barton: The museum of you. Making Mistakes. Internet Comments and Civility. You’re reading a story on the web and your eyes accidentally drift down to the comments. Within moments, lost in a sea of atrocious behavior and even worse grammar, your view of humanity clicks down another few notches. It’s an experience so common it’s spawned a mantra: Don’t Read The Comments. But why should this be so? The web is also filled with examples of altruism, kindness, and generosity. Creative, intimate communities appear online often. What is it about online comments that makes us so awful? In this essay I will focus on exploring why we behave as we do online, and suggest some solutions for increasing civility. Bad Is Louder Than Good It’s a fact that bad experiences resonate louder and longer than good ones. This relates to online behavior in two ways. The Bad Apple In his 2009 study published in Research in Organizational Behavior, Will Felps found that one bad participant can have a negative effect on an entire group.
Private Eyes Color Commentary Patternicity. Burning Man at Google. Rules of the Collaboratory Game. If you’re a researcher studying schizophrenia, you can tap marvelous new tools such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography. You can combine data from these devices for astonishingly powerful new views of how the brain works. What you can’t do is easily integrate data gathered by researchers outside your group. Enter the Biomedical Informatics Research Network, or BIRN. Funded by the National Institutes of Health, BIRN is a virtual collaboration project for biomedical big science. It aims to let a given research community share its instrumentation, data, software tools, and other resources over very high speed networks. One of the first BIRN testbeds is for schizophrenia researchers, who will pool their images to create a national treasure trove.
The term first cropped up in the late 1980s. They also can marry formerly separate threads of research. But collaboratories often fail. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Cultural aspects. Organizing in a collaborative fashion. Technological infrastructure. Can ResearchGate really be the Facebook of science? — European technology news. Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project. Steven Johnson | "Future Perfect: The Case For Progress In A Networked Age" Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from. Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world. Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration. Michael Nielsen - Open Science.