<p>Search for the term "collaboration" in Google or Bing and you get more than 90 million hits. Wikipedia lists more than 120 software products claiming to support collaboration in one way or another. Have we become collaboration, or more specifically, collaboration technology obsessed?</p><p>Collaboration has been around for millennia. Webster tells us that to collaborate is merely to "to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something." What could be simpler or more straightforward than that? Why should it be so much in today's spotlight?</p><p>On the surface it seems we're making collaboration into something very complex and tightly bound up with the latest technology trends. Our view of what collaboration should be and how we should enable and support it appears to be increasingly shaped by the technology tools available to us. Collaboration: Getting Some Perspective on Working Together</p><p>A little research into the current state of collaboration appears to support this view and uncovers an extensive series of advantages we are told we can enjoy, presumably through the acquisition and use of collaboration software.</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/social-business/separating-collaboration-from-the-collaboration-tools-024203.php">Keep reading...</a></p>