Virtual Project Huddle Room
Labels: collaboration, emerging-technology, ibm, virtual-team
President Obama creates a virtual event that spurs questions, debate and collaboration. Nice leverage of technology to create dialogue. Here's a sample of the discussion on the topic of Green Jobs and Energy: 324,994 votes on 7,442 questions from 20,104 people. ...
... "The idea that a president would want to talk directly to the American people has been around since the days of FDR, but what was new about Obama's online town hall is that it encouraged members of the public to interact with each other ... " ...
Labels: collaboration, communication, engagement, team-building, virtual-event, virtual-team
Fun exercise builds collaboration and innovation across globally distributed teams ... a nice ice-breaker if you are starting up a global project. ...
Labels: collaboration, global, innovation, team, virtual-event, virtual-team
Invite your team members' avatars to the project status meeting this week and discuss progress, issues, barriers, and next week's plan. Let me know how it goes. ...
... "Instead of bringing users into an immersive virtual world, this project overlays avatars and visualizations on top of existing web-based meeting services or an arbitrary web page. The research team has developed a Flash-based prototype and is currently running a field study with distributed teams within IBM. " ...
Labels: avatar, research, team-members, teamwork, virtual-team
According to a recent article from Gartner, 90% of "virtual world" projects (such as Second Life, etc.) fail.
Labels: virtual-team, virtual-worlds
Bring the project team to your next event via telepresence ...
Labels: events, presentation, team-building, video, virtual-event, virtual-team
Managing a project virtually? Team dispersed globally? Travelling less? Team wearing pajamas and fuzzy slippers, yet project remains on-schedule? Using collaborative tools, such as team workspaces, teleconferences, virtual whiteboards, instant messaging, web seminars, etc.? You are enabling sustainability in your enterprise. Do this across your project portfolio and there is a tangible payback. ...
... "Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5 for collaboration that offers green benefits for end users and IT departments by enabling significant reductions in travel and commuting. " ...
Labels: collaboration, global-perspective, green-computing, project-teams, sustainability, virtual-team
IBM will invest in research to deliver solutions that enable the global collaboration of virtual project teams. The company sees collaboration, communication and visualization as capabilities to engage the next generation workforce, who are used to these advanced capabilities in their personal pursuits. ...
... "The challenges of globalization are forcing companies to become more nimble, using an increasingly geographically-dispersed and virtual workforce to remain competitive. In the world of software development, this means 24x7 collaboration with specialized teams around the globe to pick up where another left off. " ...
Labels: collaboration, demographics, global, ibm, research, talent-management, virtual-team, workforce
Google's research leader provides insights on developments in China for the company, where virtual teams and collaboration enable success. ...
Labels: collaboration, global, google, virtual-team
Here's an interesting museum you can take your virtual team to. See any familiar items? ...

Labels: events, fun-stuff, risk-management, team-building, virtual-team
I knew it wouldn't take long. Technology for project communication is moving at the speed of light. Organizations are already using project blogs and wikis. Intel is spearheading the move towards WiMax (Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access), which will allow people to be wired to the Internet wherever they are at lightning speeds, through cell phones, laptops, televisions, and so on.
Labels: communication, project-collaboration, team-building, virtual-team
Google to build web-based presentation tool as part of its office productivity suite. ...
... "First of all, we want to welcome the team from Tonic Systems to Google. Tonic, which we've just acquired, is based in San Francisco and Melbourne, Australia. They have some great technology for presentation creation and document conversion, and it will be a great addition as we add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. " ...
Labels: communication, google, presentation, tonic-systems, virtual-team
New internet communication service, Twitter, morphs as users create unintended consequences. Running a global, virtual project. Need real-time info and asynchronous updates. Check it out. ...
... "What was once initially designed to answer the question: what are you doing?, has turned into a free-form communications service where people are having burts of shorthand conversations ... " ...
Labels: collaboration, communication, project-collaboration, real-time-information, team, virtual-team