Comments on: Is this really collaboration? http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2007/09/is-this-really-collaboration.html Thoughts on BPM, collaboration, analytics and information management, technology trends and the business value of IT Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:21:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Angela Ashenden http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2007/09/is-this-really-collaboration.html/comment-page-1#comment-311 Angela Ashenden Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:32:00 +0000 http://mwdtemp.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/is-this-really-collaboration/#comment-311 Thanks for the comments folks.<br/>Gary - I think the social/collaboration contrast is a good one, and it also to some extent solves the problem of vendors all wanting to be seen as hip and current! Thanks for the comments folks.
Gary – I think the social/collaboration contrast is a good one, and it also to some extent solves the problem of vendors all wanting to be seen as hip and current!

]]> By: Gary Barnett http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2007/09/is-this-really-collaboration.html/comment-page-1#comment-310 Gary Barnett Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:30:00 +0000 http://mwdtemp.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/is-this-really-collaboration/#comment-310 Hello mate,<br/><br/>I think you're right to see a difference. I think the tools where the central value is gained from the participation of a group of individuals who are essentially doing something for themselves are better described as "social" tools rather than "collaborative" tools.<br/><br/>Social tools might encourage collaboration - MySpace for example would go into my "Social" bucket as I don't think it's a collaborative tool per se (Facebook is much much more geared towards collaboration I reckon) - Shared whiteboards, Wikis, Google Docs on the other hand belong in Collaborative...<br/><br/><br/>G. Hello mate,

I think you’re right to see a difference. I think the tools where the central value is gained from the participation of a group of individuals who are essentially doing something for themselves are better described as “social” tools rather than “collaborative” tools.

Social tools might encourage collaboration – MySpace for example would go into my “Social” bucket as I don’t think it’s a collaborative tool per se (Facebook is much much more geared towards collaboration I reckon) – Shared whiteboards, Wikis, Google Docs on the other hand belong in Collaborative…

G.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.mwdadvisors.com/blog/2007/09/is-this-really-collaboration.html/comment-page-1#comment-309 Anonymous Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:16:00 +0000 http://mwdtemp.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/is-this-really-collaboration/#comment-309 Simply put, if the tools don't enable people to work at the same time on the same version of the truth then they aren't collaborative. Sun's Netbeans suite has proper collaboration pieces, Google Docs is properly collaborative and using X Emacs and firing up the same information on multiple machines was also collaborative.<br/><br/>This isn't a new thing, but unfortunately its a term being applied to technologies that aren't really any better than RCS or CVS, they are just sync points with a pretty GUI. Simply put, if the tools don’t enable people to work at the same time on the same version of the truth then they aren’t collaborative. Sun’s Netbeans suite has proper collaboration pieces, Google Docs is properly collaborative and using X Emacs and firing up the same information on multiple machines was also collaborative.

This isn’t a new thing, but unfortunately its a term being applied to technologies that aren’t really any better than RCS or CVS, they are just sync points with a pretty GUI.

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