Definition from Gartner
“Mass collaboration is the ability for multitudes of people to quickly and effectively contribute to the development or evolution of an idea, artifact, process, plan, action, etc. In the context of social software, mass collaboration includes participation by people who otherwise may not have had a pre-existing relationship.”
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