Collaborating are you?

Image by: Scott Maxwell, (CC BY-SA 2.0) CC BY-SA 2.0 CC BY-SA 2.0 When it comes to working in groups whether it is in a small group that has two people or group with more interdependence is an important aspect to all groups. This is because when it comes to group projects or activities, you will need to be able to trust the other people in your group to pull there own weight as well as you pulling your own as well. Such groups that are like this are CoP’s or Communities of Practice which usually coincide or people who share the same common expertise, passion, or experience in a specific field or practice. An example of this would be auto repair engineers, they may not meet up very often, but when they do they are able to be interdependent with other engineers who are all trying to figure out auto issues.   These CoP’s are also a great way for people to figure out problems together and help advance the field in that area as a result. One example of this is programming langu

Image by: Nick Youngson (CC BY-SA 3.0)  Figuring out the different ways one can collaborate with others willingly or unwillingly can be pretty tricky to figure out. Some of the more well-known ways to collaborate with others is to knowingly work with others to achieve a specific goal or objective, kind of like a project. Other types of collaborations are the types that are being made without real acknowledgement of it happening which is known as "Aggregation". Examples of these are when you search for something on YouTube, after a while on your homepage there will be an aggregated collaboration of things you have search or could be interested in searching. Another form of collaborating which, to be honest I feel isn't much of a collaboration in my eyes is how the people who created Captcha and Recaptcha are using words from books to get them digitized.( Ted talk on Captcha/ReCaptcha ) Sure it maybe getting a bunch of people to help out with something together, but