This document discusses how Web 2.0 tools can be used for collaboration even when working remotely. It provides examples of social bookmarking using del.icio.us, using wikis on Penn State's wikispaces, blogging on Penn State blogs, and sharing presentations on SlideShare. The document cites concepts like the "wisdom of crowds" and how collective intelligence can emerge from groups.

1. Working Close Apart: Web 2.0 Tools for Collaboration Rose M. Baker David L. Passmore

2. Penn State Workforce Education & Development Initiative Rose Baker David Passmore Program Manager Workforce Assessment Center & Assistant Professor of Education Professor & Director Penn State Institute for Research in Training & Development

3. How do you collaborate & communicate at a distance?

4. De Rerum Natura “ The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by often falling.”

5. Two little words for you… Dictyostelium Discoideum

6. Collective intelligence… Oecophylla OR Weaver ant

7. Wisdom in the “Wisdom of Crowds”… Why the Many are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations

8. Wisdom in the “Wisdom of Crowds”… Aggregation of information in groups often results in better decisions than could be made by any single person

9. Wisdom in the “Wisdom of Crowds”… Crowd at fair accurately guessed the weight of an ox when their guesses were averaged Average closer to true weight, and closer than any cattle expert estimates Francis Galton

10. What we learned…

11. New work imperative…

12. OPPORTUNITY

13. Web 2.0… We all have experienced the first generation of the Internet Web 1.0 , as some call it. Experiences delivered on the net Web 2.0 —the second generation of the Internet Applications delivered and shared on the net

14. Web 2.0 examples… Social bookmarking Use of wikis Blogging Presentation sharing

15. del.icio.us for social bookmarking… http://del.icio.us/davidpassmore

16. del.icio.us for social bookmarking… http://del.icio.us/rmb194

17. Penn State wikispaces… http://wikispaces.psu.edu

18. Penn State blogs… http://blogs.psu.edu

19. Presentations at SlideShare… http://slideshare.net

20. Working Close Apart: Web 2.0 Tools for Collaboration Rose M. Baker David L. Passmore