The essentials of collaboration

Creative Collaboration

Alison Coward

www.bracketprojects.co.uk

Why collaborate?

Opportunities

Opportunities

Opportunities

Opportunities

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Make yourself ‘findable’

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What does your online profile look

like?

Who are you associated

to?

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Building your

collaboration• What are your reasons for collaborating?

• What are your strengths and weaknesses?

• What are you bringing to the collaboration?

• Find people with different skills to you

Building your

collaboration• Values: get agendas out of the way

• Vision: the big idea

• Outcomes: what does success look like?

• Team: build the collaboration based on the skills and resources available

Building your

collaboration• Tasks: what needs to be done and who will do it?

• Timeline: what needs to be done and when?

• Money: budget / potential income

• Intellectual property: how will it be managed?

• How are you going to collaborate?

Making collaboration

work• Trust

• Willingness to share

• Good communication

• Openness/ transparency

• No ego

• Appreciation of different working styles

Can you replicate this online?

Getting away from e-mail

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Online collaboration

tools• Google: Documents, Calendars, Sites

• Skype: for online meetings

• Dropbox: for sharing files

• ManyMoon: for task management

• Stixy: for moodboards

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