The document discusses various online collaboration tools that can be used without requiring people to commute to an in-person meeting. It describes tools for video conferencing, audio conferencing, web conferencing, instant messaging, work groups, wikis, file sharing, and collaborating on documents. The document encourages readers to try some of these tools at their library and provides contact information for the authors.

1. Collaboration Without Commuting Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz & Olivia Hoge Cleveland Public Library OLC Northeast Chapter Conference March 25th, 2009

2. collaborate -verb 1. work together on a common enterprise of project.

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8. Here are some tools that are well suited to group collaboration: Work Groups Ning Google Groups Wikis pbwiki WetPaint File Sharing drop.io

10. We want YOU to try some of these tools at your library.

11. Questions?

12. Thank you! Anastasia Diamond-Ortiz [email_address] Olivia Hoge [email_address]