How do you #Define Collaboration?

I am continually looking for ways to collaborate with my colleagues as well as help the staff I work with do so with greater ease. This is not an easy task. I have experienced ups and downs when attempting to collaborate with the people around me. Obviously I enjoy the ups the most. When everything is firing on all cylinders, things are rocking and we are all productive. This is a great feeling and I want to stay stuck in the excitement of these synergistic moments. It is during these moments that I try to look around and positively reflect on how we got to such a collaborative point in time. I hope we have all experienced moments like this somewhere, somehow. But here is my question to you- How do you define collaboration?

A lot of us out here do collaborate very effectively, but part of the reason why is because of how we define collaboration. Collaboration means something to us and we do our best to put our interpretation of this word into practice everyday in the way we behave and interact with our peers. This is my all call to my PLN to share with the world how YOU define collaboration. Next week, I want to compile all of the responses on how you define collaboration into a blog and share a PLN definition of collaboration. Please either respond in a comment here or post your definitions of collaboration to Twitter with a hash tag of #define collaboration. @kellyhines has already gotten us started with her post. I look forward to hearing from more of you about your responses and properly sharing them with others.