In what ways will the collaboration framework change the nature of my interaction with the fellows in the program?

Our collaboration Framework is meant to:

Help everyone Quickly Stay Informed and Inform Others

You can easily stay informed on other fellows' work, advances and activities, and inform them on yours.

• The homepage displays the later blog posts, forum discussions, events, polls and announcements by other fellows.

Help Sharing of information, resources, events, links with other fellows.

• Fellows can easily post and share diverse information in a single place and access it by categories, geographic region, project team, etc.

Help Fellows benefit from the research, work and findings of others and keep track of them..

• You can stay informed of a project's advances by subscribing to its group.
• Every fellow has a personal page with links to all the content they post and contact information. (see the track tab on the profile page displayed when you click on the picture or name of any fellow).

Improve Collaboration and Interaction.

• Regardless of time and space.
  The collaboration framework is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. No matter at what time you access it, all information is available to you and you can review it and you can collaborate with others on your own available time and from whereever you are.
• Ease and Facilitate comments and suggestions on each others projects and ideas.
  Fellows can easily comment on your blog posts (and any other information posted) and you can comment on theirs.
  Notice the add new comment option available at the end of any blog entry, calendar event, forum topic, web link, image or any other type of content posted.
• Active, Open and Structured discussions in the forums.
  Forums allow open and unstructured participation on discussions on any topic, group by the issues relevant to the fellows. They also do a great job of maintaining track of the development of a discussion or concept and who contributed what to it.

Create special interest and collaboration groups.

• For more information on groups, see:
  Organize team activities, info and work.

Invite fellows to events and confirm their attendance (rsvp’s).

Once you add an event to our calendar, you can then invite other users and non-members of our collaboration framework to it and keep track of their responses and confirmations.

• Add an event to the calendar.
• Then click on the rsvp option.
• Keep track of your invitations and responses received by using the my rsvps option on the  menu at the top left side of the screen.