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Michael Sampson
Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (September 24, 2007)
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Telework Challenges … Eric outlines the challenges with remote work: (1) greater difficulty in scheduling meetings, (2) less productive meetings, (3) less work effort, and (4) poorer team cohesion and team spirit. Datamation “Real Teams” … What’s the difference […]
Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (September 20, 2007)
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams SharePoint = UCC Agent … Viral (from Microsoft) argues that SharePoint is going to bring about big changes in work culture. “The last universal cultural change occurred with email becoming mainstream. The next dramatic shift will occur with a […]
Holidays are …
Holidays are: – Packing up vehicle and trailer, with clothes and bedding and food for three days away – Strange holiday houses, and small too – Six children sleeping in a room designed for two – Different smells – Instructions at the beach, “don’t get your shoes wet”, […]
Is the answer to broken email yet another email system? Thoughts on Yahoo acquiring Zimbra
Zimbra was acquired yesterday for $350 million by Yahoo! That’s great news for the pockets of its staff and investors, but what about the rest of us? There is a constant stream of talk about email bankruptcy, email overload, and email being broken … and if that’s all […]
Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (September 18, 2007)
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Managing Virtual Teams … Carol interviews Prof Linda about managing virtual teams. Key insight: people who have met in person are good at working together. Data Security in Virtual Teams … The number one question Jessica got during a […]
Interesting Times
The past two weeks have been very “interesting”. My left hand and wrist showed signs of RSI, with extreme pain in being touched, bumped, twisted or used for typing. When you live your professional life glued to a keyboard, the latter isn’t very helpful! So I’ve had to […]
Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (September 14, 2007)
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams On Telecommuting … “The socialthing! team has been telecommuting for about a week and a half now and it’s been a pretty big experiment. As a team, can we be away from each other and still stay just as […]
Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (September 12, 2007)
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams 10 Commandments of Distributed Teams … (1) recruit the right people, (2) establish clear goals, (4) build an environment of trust and openness, (8) cultivate passion for the goal, among others. Vagrant Muse Telework: Yes But … Tim likes […]
Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Report (September 11, 2007)
The People Part of Enterprise Collaboration and Virtual Teams Tuesday Morning = Quiet Time … 300 engineers and managers at Intel are involved in a pilot program to combat information overload. “Every Tuesday morning they will all set their email and IM clients to “offline”, forward their phones […]
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