To innovate, we need environments that support imaginative thinking, where we can go through many crazy, tangential, and even bad ideas to come up with good ones. We need to work both collaboratively and individually. We also need a healthy amount of heated discussion, even arguing. We need places where someone can throw out a thought, have it critiqued, and not feel so judged that they become defensive and shut down. Yet this creative process is not necessarily supported by the traditional tenets of brainstorming: group collaboration, all ideas held equal, nothing judged. ... At Continuum, we use deliberative discourse--or what we fondly call 'Argue. Discuss. Argue. Discuss.'”
The article lists the 5 rules of engagement that Continuum uses.
(1) No hierarchy. (2) Say "No, because". (3) Diverse perspectives. (4) Focus on a common goal. (5) Keep it fun.
Author: Daniel Sobol, Fast Company, March 22, 2012

HN thread on distributed teams. Good summary of tools and processes.

Weekly status reports based on Google's Snippets.

* osx: you will need to have an up to date version of Xcode

The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) will provide email and collaboration applications to about 600,000 students via Microsoft's Live@EDU cloud suite, a project for which it also considered Google Apps for Education.

Framework and set of standards for supporting social reading in ebook environments.

Free Screen Sharing and Online Meetings

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Capturing and sharing your inner most creative genius has never been easier. Introducing the first multi-device collaboration tool from Universal Mind. From iPhone to iPad with just a flick of the finger, iBrainstorm has set the bar and has redefined the very nature of collaboration.