March 5, 2005
Building Effective Virtual Teams: Online Event Coming Up
As enterprises gradually decentralize their operations and new networked business ecosystems start to find their way into profitable niche marketplaces, virtual, networked business teams gradually emerge as the wave of the future.

Photo credit : Andres Ojeda
To be successful, virtual networked business teams need a strategic framework in which to operate.
What better way to discuss the intricacies of empowering a virtual team and the strategies to improve the outcome of its collaboration efforts, than an online event?
The good news is that such an event is going to be held on an international scale at the end of March 2005.
If you are about to launch a project that involves the use of virtual teams and online collaboration technologies, the Virtual Teams & Collaboration 2005 conference may provide you with some valuable insight.
Robin is also giving away FIVE free access tickets to this online conference to those of you who will be posting the best 5-point recipe to move virtual teams beyond their present frustrations and into virtual collaboration bliss.
Next to the choice of an appropriate technology, what are in your opinion the five most important requirements for a virtual team to be successful?
Read the full details about this upcoming conference and about Robin's honorary participation in his Kolabora article Virtual Teams And Grassroots Collaboration Technologies: Online Event
Reference: Kolabora [ Read more ]
January 29, 2005
Virtual Teamwork Best Practices: Focus On People
Ralph Poole has been asking for some public comment to his good post about best practices to enable globally dispersed virtual teams. As he rightly points his focus to communication and interaction approaches that facilitate more effective online teamwork, I am contributing my humble views and... read more
February 21, 2005
The Online Collaboration Potential For The Networked Small Business Company
Small technology consultancy firms understand better than anyone else the importance and potential of online collaboration technologies, beyond what is served to the dominating and more visible cororate marketplace. Photo credit: Sorin Brinzei Online collaboration is not reserved only to the large enterprise or the multi-national corporation. Small... read more
November 17, 2004
How To Facilitate Online Collaborative Work In The Enterprise: Patty Seybold Reports
Our organizations are expending a great deal of time, effort, and money trying to make (online work collaboration) easier. Many companies try strategies that include portals, extranets, VPNs, and browser-based applications-strategies that at best have been only partially successful (e.g., for workers that can always find... read more
February 4, 2004
How To Share The Right Knowledge With The Right People At The Right Time
The Power Of Instant Messaging And Presence Awareness Across Platforms And Protocols The synchronous (real-time) presence of peer-group members can significantly augment our abilities to escalate communications with near or distant teammates and to more rapidly evaluate how to resolve just-in-time problematic issues. Among the innovative and forwarding... read more
July 10, 2004
Virtual Offices Are Here: Groove V.3 Joins The Fray
On Monday, Groove Networks will release version 3 of its powerful collaboration technology after several months of beta testing and ongoing refinements. As already reported, the new version is a major improvement over previous releases and realizes in good part many of the potentialities it had... read more
February 15, 2005
YahooGroups, Groove Or Socialtext Wiki: My Personal Impressions


