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The Future Of Online Collaboration: Interview with Howard Rheingold
The future of online collaboration seen through the eyes of SmartMobs author, Howard Rheingold, focuses on the ways in which we can leverage the use of these powerful new communication tools to our service and benefit. Howard Rheingold, which I first met two years ago here in Rome, and then later visited in his inspiring artist home immersed in the green Marin Valley north of San Francisco, is a true...
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-September 1, 2006

The Future Of Online Collaboration: Interview with Jay Cross
"Informal learning is all around us: it happens all the time, everywhere, because it is the most natural way we all learn. Informal learning is the both the most valuable and the least talked about asset an organization has today to match the knowledge demands imposed by the increasingly rapid pace of change. Unless a company can facilitate unrestricted exchange, promote visual communication, while encouraging open confrontation through the growth...
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-August 17, 2006

3D Collaboration Spaces: What Future Ahead?
3D immersive virtual reality spaces in which people can meet, talk, present, and exchange documents and files have been around for over two years now. But this virtual reality approach to online collaboration has yet not taken root, nor have the potential marketplaces materialized in front of the still limited offerings that have become available online. What are then the limitations preventing 3D collaboration spaces from taking off and...
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-April 12, 2006

The Year Of Collaboration
It's the New Year and time for pundits everywhere to predict every possibility that 2006 will bring. I assembled a list as well, and the more I looked at it, the more it became obvious that each item led to one uber-trend for 2006. Photo credit: Alvaro Heinzen I share this with a minor tremor of trepidation. I worked in IT publishing through the late '80s, when each year was...
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-January 4, 2006

What Is The Business Case For Successful Collaboration?
A number of years ago, I worked for an international corporation at one of its large facilities. As the local head of training and development, my role was to help the process managers improve productivity through the growth of the workforce. Photo credit: Alfonso Romero One item on the agenda at the time was to develop a team-based operations workforce. After a couple of years of watching what was going...
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-December 9, 2005

Virtual Team Types To Improve Organizational Performance
The bioteams collaboration between Ken Thompson and Robin Good has produced knowledge that should be considered in the rapidly changing environment of using collaboration to get results. Photo credit: Jeremy Henderson Having spent a great amount of resource on the topic, my own views of virtual teams have evolved. While not necessarily in (or not in) the direction of the bioteam concept, as I understand it, my view could be...
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-July 4, 2005

Bioteaming: A Manifesto For Networked Business Teams
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. To be successful, virtual, networked business teams need a strategic framework in which to operate. They also need good planning and in-depth project analysis, effective and accessible technologies, constant coaching, systematic fine-tuning, feedback processes and the full understanding...
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-March 6, 2005

Free Trial With The Surprise: GoToMeeting Got Me
I am here to report an unpleasant experience I have just had with the extremely effective online service from Citrix, GoToMeeting, which allows anyone on a PC to easily share a PC screen with anyone else on the Internet. Rather I have fallen prey of one those marketing and sales strategies that I despise and criticize the most. Citrix GoToMeeting, is one of those services, that while offering an online...
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-February 25, 2005

Extended Conferences: X-Events
"...unlike the traditional conference that ultimately concludes in a few days, virtual conferences have an element of immortality. Much of that is due to the latest breed of conferencing software that incorporates real-time activities (chat and Webcasting) as well as non real-time activities (discussion threads, e-mail and archived presentations). Photo credit: Peter Björknäs Proponents of virtual conferences argue that it provides a fuller experience because it gathers and presents all...
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-February 11, 2005

Videoconferencing And Avatars To Complement Lack Of Non-Verbal Clues In Online Meetings
Meetings that only use voice communication, such as a teleconference, present difficulties in determining who is speaking and listening. These problems increase as the number of meeting participants increases, an additional factor being how familiar people are with the voices of the other participants. Non-verbal cues, like body language and facial expression, which help us in a face-to-face meeting, are missing in a teleconference, so that it can be difficult...
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-February 7, 2005

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