Editing Collaboration (section)

==== The Internet ====
The Internet's low cost and nearly instantaneous sharing of ideas, knowledge, and skills has made collaborative work dramatically easier. Not only can a group cheaply communicate, but the wide reach of the Internet allows groups to easily form, particularly among dispersed, niche participants. An example of this is the [[free software movement]] in software development which produced [[GNU]] and [[Linux]] from scratch and has taken over development of [[Mozilla]] and [[OpenOffice.org]] (formerly known as [[Netscape Communicator]] and [[StarOffice]]).

With the recent development of [[social media]] platforms, there has been a constant and quick growth in the use of the Internet for communication and collaboration between people. The [[Web 2.0|2.0 version of the internet]] has become a tool for collaborative projects, [[blog]]s, [[Online community|online communities]], social networks, group games. An example of how social media aids in more effective collaboration is seen via the business environment.<ref>{{Citation|last=Groß|first=Marie-Luise|title=Personal Knowledge Management and Social Media|date=2013|work=Social Media in Higher Education|pages=124–143|publisher=IGI Global|doi=10.4018/978-1-4666-2970-7.ch007|isbn=978-1-4666-2970-7}}</ref> Communication and collaboration create new hierarchies and wider networks for employees and partners of organisations. Additionally, it also enables businesses to broaden their [[Marketing strategy|marketing strategies]] by collaborating with [[influencers]] of those social media platforms.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Georgescu|first1=Mircea|last2=Popescul|first2=Daniela|date=2015-01-01|title=Social Media – The New Paradigm of Collaboration and Communication for Business Environment|journal=Procedia Economics and Finance|series=Globalization and Higher Education in Economics and Business Administration - GEBA 2013|language=en|volume=20|pages=277–282|doi=10.1016/S2212-5671(15)00075-1|issn=2212-5671|doi-access=free}}</ref>