Robin Sloan on Snarkmarket describing tools for large scale, real time collaboration, using Twitter, Google Forms, and Dropbox. Jane McGonigal gets called out for noticing and naming three collaboration superpowers and the tools and attitudes and interpersonal skills that matter. Note that these three are part of a list coming from a world of multiplayer gaming; if you were wondering why your CEO was spending time leveling up in some MMO, now you can see why:
Mobbability: the ability to do real-time work in very large groups; a talent for coordinating with many people simultaneously. Cooperation radar: the ability to sense, almost intuitively, who would make the best collaborators on a particular task. Ping quotient: measures your responsiveness to other people’s requests for engagement.Jane McGonigal from AvantGame on collaboration, from 2007, here:
10 Collaboration Superpowers
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