When people are involved in a team from many different places and thus different time zones, you have two choices. Either everyone has to state any meeting times in their own time zone and then rely on everyone else to do the conversion to their time zone (which […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Celine outlines an approach to implementing online team collaboration tools in the enterprise: (1) show them your research on the benefits, (2) make the transition slowly, (3) don’t choose tools that are too different from what you have, (4) […]
After the two hectic days in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, I had a slower-paced day in Melbourne. I did a bit of walking between the three meetings that I had, and that was a nice change from going everywhere in a rush in a taxi. At 10.30am, I […]
Silence can mean many things, and that’s a problem in virtual teams. When you can see someone, you can go over and ask why they’re being silent. When you work with others that you can’t easily see or visit, it’s much harder to know what’s going on. Are […]
After finishing the ILF session in Canberra, I jumped in a taxi and headed for the airport for a flight to Melbourne. After a few delays, both in getting out of Canberra and in landing at Melbourne, a 30-minute taxi ride took me to the location of my […]
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Dave Snowdon’s take on rolling out social software in the enterprise: (a) provide basic HTML training, (b) roll out the new tools by working one-by-one with key opinion leaders and senior executives, (c) use blog-storms linked to initial wiki […]
The second of the two Intranet Leadership Forum presentations that I came to Australia to deliver was held in Canberra this morning. With Canberra being the locale of federal government for Australia, pretty much all of the people in the room were from government departments. We had a […]
When Iain Hawke, Country Manager for TOWER Software in New Zealand heard that I was going to be in Canberra today, he suggested that I meet up with Geoff Moore, the General Manager for TOWER Software in Asia Pacific. This was before the announcement that HP had announced […]
Teams working on a task outcome are embedded in a social and business environment; they have their own work to complete, and in addition they have others to keep informed about how things are going. Perhaps it’s the manager of a division, and he or she has sponsored […]
Yesterday’s afternoon session with the Sydney chapter of the Intranet Leadership Forum on SharePoint went great. About 15 people attended from member organizations of the ILF, and in addition to my prepared comments, there was really great peer-to-peer sharing about what each organization was facing or experiencing in […]
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