Here is a collection of my 7 most popular articles on collaborative and virtual business networks based on user feedback and page views:

Aviation giant Boeing is putting large scale multi-party collaboration right at the heart of the new 787 Dreamliner development with 60 business partners working across 72 sites around the world.

Anyone serious about developing community, virtual or otherwise, should have a look at the excellent free resources at the Foundation for Community Encouragement originally established by Dr Scott Peck to help groups of all types work through the universal stages of community building.

Pattern recognition skills in bees are so advanced they can recognise human faces better than we can

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best – in this case automatically ‘triaging’ inbound email by user defined importance. SNARF allows the user to design their own personal email importance criteria such as the "number of emails sent to me in the last month".

Lateral leadership skills are what you need to get the job done when you are not the boss of the team