What is e-collaboration. I have lokoed around the web and found it seriously lacking in a useful definition. Following my experience of Groove I would like to offer bullet points from my ivory tower. What follows is off the cuff, I hope to expand and clarify in further posting. Successful e-collaboration is:

- time/user stamped creation and sharing of information
- easy
- dynamically and inherently improves processes by natural best-practice self-creating models
- flexible and adaptable
- intimate & secure
- operates in the middle, at edge, and beyond
- is not dogmatic - (we should be talking about human processes not about whether p2p is better than sbc or vice versa)
- strongly encourages swarming
- open and free-thinking
- thrilling, absolutely thrilling - "better than sex?"
- builds irrevocable human bonds
- task oriented (which Groove is not)
- extensible
- encourages meritocratic structures - and vice-versa
- different
- the only way forward
- one tool
- fully configurable for you and your team - which groove is not


posted by Andy Swarbrick/PopG at 1:35