The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Formation of Trust in Virtual Teams = It’s About Reliability, Stupid … This finding resonates with this virtual worker … “It may be that trust is simply built via different mechanisms in virtual teams. After a few studies on this issue, research suggests that trust in virtual teams depends largely upon reliability. When virtual team members feel they can count on one another to do what they say they will do, trust builds quickly. Surely this is influential among F2F team members as well, but researchers believe it may be the crucial factor in virtual teams.” Leading Virtually

The Technology Trends of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams

• Ikordo … Ikordo shifted its calendaring scheduling service out of beta. Congrats to Jim and the team. “ikordo uses advanced natural language processing to understand written email responses and communicates back and forth in a friendly fashion, negotiating a time and date acceptable to everyone. In the words of a recent new user “You put in who needs to be at a meeting, general time frame, and topic. ikordo emails everyone back and forth and nails down a perfect time for everyone! How easy is that?” Well we think it’s really easy!” Ikordo (see also three myths about Ikordo)
• CalConnect Roundtable in February … CalConnect announced that its 11th roundtable meeting will be held in February 2008 in California. “The Roundtable will be largely comprised of Technical Committee meetings, to which all members and observers are welcome, informal BOFs (Birds of a Feather sessions), plus some additional sessions and committee meetings which will be determined closer to the event. Friday morning will be the full Plenary meeting of the Consortium, open to all participants. This session will include report-outs from all Technical Committees, possibly demonstrations resulting from the IOP testing earlier in the week, and establishment of future goals and directions for the Consortium.” CalConnect
• Alfresco on JBoss … Alfresco released a team collaboration offering for SMBs that runs on the Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. “Team Collaboration Solution offers an affordable solution for organizations that want to get up and running quickly with portals that deliver rich content services and mashups to their constituents. Pre-integrated and certified on a complete Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 / JBoss Enterprise Middleware stack, this offering combines Red Hat’s standards-compliant JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform with Alfresco’s Enterprise Social Computing Platform in a single package, delivered via an annual Red Hat subscription.” Available immediately. Alfresco