A presentation by Rose Baker and David Passmore at Penn State on 13 May 2008.

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.”

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

10. What we learned…

11. New work imperative…

12. OPPORTUNITY

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

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

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