A distributed system for interactive collaboration can facilitate
synchronous and asynchronous communications, take advantage of electronic
scheduling tools, support a facilitator paradigm, and store meeting
communications for later retrieval. The system can create a collaborative
environment for members of a team in communication with a computer
network. An interactive forum can be provided in the collaborative
environment in a manner offering varying degrees of structure for
collecting information from the members of the team. The information can
then be used to arrive at a collaboratively derived decision.