For example, some of the most stimulating collaborations I have experienced recently occur while commuting to work. The ear has served as a wonderful technological setting for collaboration. A collaborative technology is a tool that enables individuals to jointly engage in active production of shared knowledge. For example, a storyboard is a tool that can enable script writers, set designers, and directors to construct a shared understanding of the film they aim to produce. Shared practices of collaborative technology use builds communal understandings.
Collaborative technology is therefore the basis of a generative community of practice.
It allows the community to reconstruct a shared experience continually so as to produce greater meaning and greater potential for successful future action. Many examples of group software are good personal technologies that function as settings for collaborative work. For example an automated meeting scheduler can make it easier to organize collaborative work. It merely accomplishes the meeting schedule function for a group of individuals . In contrast to good personal technologies, good collaborative technologies function by becoming a highly visible part of shared experience.