I like the "working smarter" framework you present for what goes beyond collaboration, to informal and opportunity driven interactions in external networks.

A term I used last year in a blog post related to the same phenomenon is "Swarm of Knowledge". This refers to the results of "external network's" work in Social Media. Quoting the post:

"Swarm of Knowledge (SwoK) might be the term to best describe the result of collective intelligence via decentralized, often chaotic, works of Social Media on a given professional domain. There are no definite borders, there's no central authority, the agents contributing to the SwoK may not be even aware to which domain(s) their content may be relevant.

SwoK is fluid. It evolves continuously, without coordination. It is fundamentally different from e.g. Linux - there's no Mr. Linus or similar authority to provide for direction. There's even no way to definitely say what is part of SwoK and what is not. There can't be a certification test, there's no Table of Contents."

Would you say that "Swarm of Knowledge" would be a good term to describe the results of Social Learning Networks (and beyond)?

Link to the complete post