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Origin of the #Hashtag in Social Media

Origin of the #Hashtag in Social Media

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Collective conscious

Brainstorming and collaboration are essential features of the modern world. Working on the same problem, people make profit on their collective intelligence.

Brainstorming is a process of generation ideas aimed to cope with a certain task. It encourages people to come up with own thoughts without fear of being criticized. Group brainstorming is very useful solution to take advantages of experience and creativity of all involved members.

Collaboration means teamwork of individuals to achieve a required goal. A group of people can work in the same office or distantly, interact in real time or have some shifts of time etc. Currently we have a bunch of collaboration tools that make a joint work much easier and faster. Supposedly, the most popular of them are Gantt charts, Kanban charts and to-do lists. Using unpaid or paid web-based project management tools like Smartsheets, Basecamp, Trello, Blossom, Asana etc., it is very easy and convenient to monitor every team member’s work load and progress of tasks. For sure, each tool has its features and advantages, so team has opportunity to determine what collaboration service suits it best.

On my previous jobs I used to have a quite significant experience in brainstorming and collaboration. Starting from traditional brainstorming with a flipchart and finishing with video conference call, I dealt with various collaboration tools depending on task and people involved in teamwork.

Doing my personal freelance and hobby projects I mainly use group-communication facilities of Facebook and Viber, document-sharing opportunity provided by Google Docs and such storage services as Dropbox and Google Drive.

Based on my experience I’d like to say that variety of available tools make possible working of collaboration projects of different complexity. Someone uses Zoho, someone is happy to have Yammer as the main working tool, someone thinks that Google Docs is more than enough… There is no universal solution.  Efficient collaboration has paramount importance anyway. If you do great job just using markers and whiteboard, go ahead.

Nowadays, it is hard to find a company which doesn’t have collaboration projects. I’d say it’s so untypical and weird to be out of this trend. Car manufacturers collaborate with automotive parts suppliers, design agencies and custom shops, clothing companies engage fashion celebrities, musicians and sport stars to make joint collections, music bands record songs with guest singers etc.

As an example of good collaboration work, I’d like to mention independent record label called Anticon. It was almost 15 years ago when I heard about this US-based label for the first time. Anticon was founded in 1998 by eight friends and musicians at the same time. Just a few years after launching, they became famous for creating their own sound and establishing a bunch of new musical trends. Collaboration was one of the most exciting and unusual trends. Anticon artists/founders are known for frequent collaboration, both within and outside of the record label. They released music in solo and group form, toured together, played roles of producers of albums of each other and shared label’s administrative jobs. Inspired of Anticon I’ve had amazing time doing various art projects in collaboration with like-minded guys.

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Storyboard of our idea for the final film.

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Professor Dendras Open Sim Sim TED talk.... Great Collaboration

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A simple way of creating augmented reality.

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Augmented reality city, These projections could allow for informal collaboration and interaction between a designer and a client perhaps.

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This is an augmented reality projection of shadows using blocks moved in real time. Could be a way of teaching through collaboration with students....