Thursday, November 19, 2009

The "Burden" of Collaboration

Unregistered Carriers on 11/18/2009 - 1609
Unregistered Carriers on 11/19/2009 - 1597

Maine - 93.14%
Illinois - 92.50%

I've been thinking overnight about the prospects for collaboration .... and I'm struck by a recurring question:

What does/will it actually mean for "us" to collaborate?

First, who is "us"? If we're talking about NCSTS, we could be talking about the current officers, the Past Presidents, the Executive Committee, the States, the Industry, the Past Hospitality Suite Coordinators or the entire NCSTS membership.

Second, what will collaboration mean? Frequently, I approach the adequacy of a new piece of software in terms of, "Here's what I need it to do. Does it do that?" In this case, it's almost like we're looking at what Sharepoint does and figuring out if that type of collaboration could apply to the "new and improved" collaborative us.

In other words, we have no Grand Collaboration Plan to test the capabilities of Sharepoint against.

And I'm struck by the extent to which we don't collaborate now.

And I think we're going to have to "grow into" collaboration.

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