In an age of increasing globalization and electronic communication, collegial collaboration is becoming increasingly a "long-distance" relationship. Gone are the days when your major co-author was the academic in the next office and you traded marked-up hard-copy documents back and forth. Now, teams of co-authors are often separated by thousands of miles and several time zones yet, high speed communication allows for almost instantaneous document transfers and thus, the potential for speedy turn-around times. Unfortunately, this latter benefit often leads to sloppiness in writing style and, on occasion, to an exacerbation of the co-author ''faux pas.'' This Professional Development Workshop presents a Best Practices for Co-authorship through a discussion of ''classic'' co-author fumbles, errors and mis-steps that drive colleagues crazy. Anonymity is assured but, do not be surprised if you recognize yourself in this often humorous and entertaining presentation. The workshop addresses the issues from the view points of [1] tolerant and not-so-tolerant co-authors, [2] junior researchers ''managing up'', [3] senior researchers working with doctoral candidates, [4] senior researchers used to working at a distance, [5] researchers working to create a research environment, [6] administrators managing researchers and, [7] editors dealing with the interaction between themselves, reviewers and research teams.