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Technical communication has experienced an explosion in theory and research. This site has been established as a central site to connect those who want to do research, those who want to fund research, and those who have the need for research results. It could pave the way for more and better research in our profession.
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The following glossary defines terms used in the context of collaboration.
SAP Design Guild (2004). Resources>Collaboration
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Collaborative Virtual Workspace
CVW is a collaboration software environment that provides a 'virtual building' where teams can communicate, collaborate, and share information, regardless of their geographic location. CVW takes virtual meetings one step further and enables virtual co-location through persistent virtual rooms, each incorporating people, information, and tools appropriate to a task, operation, or service.
SourceForge (2001). Resources>Software>Collaboration>Open Source
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Computer Supported Collaborative Work Bibliography
This is a gateway to the bibliographic database on CSCW and related topics which is maintained at the Applied Informatics and Distributed Systems Group at Technische Universität München. The database contains basic bibliographic data, links to online versions of the references, and sometimes even abstracts or annotations.
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Computer-Mediated Communication Platforms
Overview and reviews of resources, software, training environments, collaboration/conferencing software, and tools.
Montecino, Virginia. George Mason University (2003). Resources>Directories>Collaboration>Online
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Discussion of a variety of TC software platforms.
CPTec GmbH. (German) Resources>Collaboration>Information Design
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A 'webliography' of links to resources in computer supported collaborative work.
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Organizational Memory Bibliography 
Information technology has enabled organizations to generate and retain mountains of information. Unfortunately, many organizations suffer from 'infoglut.' They have the information they need, but they don't know they have it. Or, knowing they have it, they can't find it. We would like to find ways that information technology can support business processes, but to do this we need to understand how and where information might be of use within organizations.
Ackerman, Mark. University of Michigan (2002). Resources>Bibliographies>Collaboration
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Professional Organizations in Collaboration
Links to a number of organizations that study groupware and collaboration.
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STC Research RFP Epost Discussion Board 
The STC Research RFP Discussion Board was created using Epost, part of a University of Washington online toolkit. The discussion board is open to the public.
University of Washington-Seattle. Resources>Collaboration>Research
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Team Building and Group Dynamics
A collection of links to collaboration resources online.
Miesing, Paul. SUNY Albany (1997). Resources>Directories>Collaboration
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Technical Communicators’ Forum (TC-Forum)
The idea for TC-Forum evolved during Forum 95. Forum 95 was an international conference organized by the international umbrella organization INTECOM, the International Council for Technical Communication. Forum conferences take place every five years. The first one was held in Malmö, Sweden, in 1975, the last one in Germany in 1995.
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The UML Forum is web community dedicated to the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the industry-standard visual modeling language for specifying software-intensive systems. Here you can find information related to UML specifications, UML tools, UML books, UML papers, and UML mailing lists.
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News, events and other items of interest about user experience as an umbrella concept for collaboration and cooperation.
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The Visual Modeling Forum is a web community dedicated to visual modeling languages and tools. The visual modeling languages that we cover include industry standards, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), the System Modeling Language (SysML), as well as emerging standards, such as Domain-Specific Modeling Languages and visual OWL for the Semantic Web.
Visual Modeling Forum. Resources>Collaboration>Community Building>UML
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Writers are often assigned to carry out a group research project, give an oral presentation to the class, and/or write a group paper. What do you do?
University of Central Florida (2000). Resources>Collaboration>Writing
