Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate generally to a method of automatically selecting a collaboration mechanism for content to be shared between a source computing device and a destination computing device. The collaboration mechanism may be one of multiple collaboration mechanisms available to a collaboration application. Aspects of the present invention can automatically select the collaboration mechanism that is optimized for the present network conditions, hardware conditions, and quality requirements to share the selected content. Many of the network and processing conditions utilized by aspects of the present invention are not readily available or discernible by a user selecting a method.