0 involving two or more people working together for a special purpose:
The presentation was a collaborative effort by all the children in the class.
1 involving two or more people or organizations working together for a particular purpose:
a collaborative effort/venture/study The presentation was a collaborative effort by everyone in the department.
This is the target of collaborative applications (groupware), project management and workflow solutions, messaging services and, more recently, social network applications.
But decisions about repertory, about instrumental accompaniments, even about how to promote a group, were intended to make a success out of a collaborative effort.
That making art in a collaborative environment can contribute to social and personal development, concentration, intellectual skills, self-esteem and promote social cohesion is self-evident.
When discussing possible collaborative strategies, participants suggested exchanging experiences on local reconciliation, and attuning human rights advocacy.
This is so, whether that work is seen, variously, as responsive, pro-active, collaborative and experimental or as eccentric, tangental and obscure.
However, in an earlier stage to collaborative approaches, the user modeling community provided a different answer, namely the stereotype approach.
Important contributions to the answer may possibly come from future collaborative research involving psychologists and linguists.
This collaborative study demonstrated that the existing system could not save a disabled tanker from grounding under certain conditions.
