Tag Archives: Virtual Teams

Update on Key Communications Technologies for Virtual Teams

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Loyal

As someone with a great deal of personal experience working in virtual teams and having managed a collaboration technologies research team for several years, I am very familiar with the obvious as well as subtle problems with the collaboration tools … Continue reading →

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A Great Time to Practice Telecommuting

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Loyal

We are a week away to a possible BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) strike in the San Francisco area…again. If your people can’t get to work, what will you do? Your competition elsewhere in the world is not encumbered by … Continue reading →

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The Future of Virtual Project Teams, part 2

Posted on January 15, 2009 by Loyal

In the first part of this series I talked about how future project leaders may select team members for their projects. In this installment, I will discuss the future of virtual team spaces, which include real-time tools that facilitate ‘in-person’ … Continue reading →

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The Future of Virtual Project Teams

Posted on January 9, 2009 by Loyal

I always enjoy imagining what the future will be like for all sorts of things: transportation, energy, architecture, space exploration, and the everyday chores of life. Perhaps it is my lifelong interest in science fiction, or perhaps I just want … Continue reading →

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When meeting face to face isn't better

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Kathy

Have you ever done affinity diagramming? That’s the brainstorming exercise in which each participant in a conference room is given a pad of sticky notes and asked to write as many ideas as possible about an issue or solutions to … Continue reading →

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Communicating Effectively in Virtual Teams: Part 4 of 4

Posted on August 29, 2008 by Loyal

In this final part of my series on communications in virtual teams, I will discuss the most important medium to evolve so far during the computer revolution: e-mail. Pretty much everyone has an e-mail address these days, and many of … Continue reading →

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