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Thinklets for E-Collaboration

Thinklets for E-Collaboration

Robert O. Briggs, Gert-Jan de Vreede, Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 6
ISBN13: 9781599040004|ISBN10: 159904000X|EISBN13: 9781599040011
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch096
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Briggs, Robert O., et al. "Thinklets for E-Collaboration." Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration, edited by Ned Kock, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 631-636. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch096

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Briggs, R. O., de Vreede, G., & Kolfschoten, G. L. (2008). Thinklets for E-Collaboration. In N. Kock (Ed.), Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration (pp. 631-636). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch096

Chicago

Briggs, Robert O., Gert-Jan de Vreede, and Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten. "Thinklets for E-Collaboration." In Encyclopedia of E-Collaboration, edited by Ned Kock, 631-636. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-000-4.ch096

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Abstract

A ThinkLet is a named, scripted collaborative activity that gives rise to a known pattern of collaboration among people working together toward a goal. ThinkLets are design patterns for collaborative work practices (Briggs, Kolfschoten, Vreede, & Dean, in press; Briggs & Vreede, 2001). A thinkLet is the smallest unit of intellectual capital necessary to recreate a known pattern of collaboration. ThinkLets are used by facilitators and collaboration engineers as (1) predictable building blocks for collaboration process design, (2) as transferable knowledge elements to shorten the learning curve of facilitation techniques, and (3) by researchers as parsimonious, consistent templates to compare the effects of various technology-supported collaboration practices. ThinkLets have a rigorous documentation scheme that specifies the information elements needed to adapt the solution it embodies to the problem at hand. This scheme is derived from the design pattern concept of Alexander (1979; Alexander, Ishikawa, Silverstein, Jacobson, Fiksdahl-King, & Angel, 1977). The collection of thinkLets forms a pattern language for creating, documenting, communicating, and learning group process designs. The term thinkLet was coined by David H. Tobey in 2001 when he said “They are like applets…except they are thinkLets.”

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