We are in the midst of a series investigating collaboration. We previously wrote about the two types of collaboration - intentional and accidental.

INTENTIONAL: where we get together to achieve a goal and
ACCIDENTAL: where you interact with something of mine and I am never aware of your interaction
While intentional collaboration is good it is not where the bulk of untapped collaborative potential lies. Accidental collaboration is. But the challenge is to intentionally facilitate accidental collaboration. For the full list of 10 requirements see the original post. Last time I wrote about requirement #6: Data Accessibility for People and Computers. This time we will talk about the importance of keeping track of how the information changes over time.

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to Ten Requirements for Achieving Collaboration #7: Tracking the Change and Evolution of Information