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Collaboration is a joint effort of multiple individuals or work groups to accomplish a task or project. A wide range of collaborative software (also known as groupware ) is available to enable collaborative communication. Collaboration may be asynchronous , in which case those collaborating are not necessarily working together (and in communication) at the same time; in contrast, collaboration may be synchronous (this is known as real-time collaboration), in which collaborative partners are working together simultaneously and in communication as they work.

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This was last updated in September 2005
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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