We had a great workshop on Thursday on collaboration tools and how to approach them in higher education. I was part of the panel that led the presentation, so I wasn’t taking notes, but I’m sure the notes will be posted to the CSG web site after the meeting.
For my part in the presentation, I reiterated some of the points I made at last spring’s discussion of this topic, and went on to comment that what we’re now experiencing in the collaborative tools space is somewhat analogous to the Cambrian explosion, where we have a tremendous proliferation of new species of software appearing almost on a daily basis and combining and evolving at a very rapid rate, making it very difficult to figure out which ones we should engage with at an enterprise level, or even how to construct a meaningful taxonomy of these applications.
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Oren Sreebny 
Kewl, thanks for sharing this Oren. I really grok your main comment above. In terms of a taxonomy, I attempted this via my work at Shared Spaces … the 7 Pillars. Have you seen that?
http://www.shared-spaces.com/blog/2005/02/the_7_pillars_o.html
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