David Bowen One of the great potential uses of the Internet is as a facility for the development of communities of people with like-minded interests, needs, and desires. However, recent events in the economy, coupled with technological developments, have brought these ideas back to the forefront. Today, the renewed interest in collaborative learning is, in part, due to the difficulty companies have had retaining qualified workers in the boom economy of the 1990s. This makes for a stimulating, energized workplace . The company as a whole works smarter.
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The collaborative environment is also seen as a way to extend the possibilities of current business relationships and nurture new business. The first rush towards b2b e-commerce was an attempt to provide a collaborative environment for buyers and sellers to interact and make deals. Managing content through a central point like a marketplace is contrary to the structure of the Internet. As an effort to gauge our users' opinions, we also conduct periodic polls on our front page and in our CareerCenter . In the near future, we will be introducing other features designed to extend the collaborative nature of our site, including an Ask an Expert column, where users can quiz industry experts on difficult topics.