Great Virtual Teams: Rule 3: Hold The Team Together

How to use social media successfully in projects, is described in the Harvard Business Review article: “Can Absence Make A Team Grow Stronger”. The article is from 2004, and they are not mentioning “social media”, they discuss “virtual workspaces”. But the two concepts are strikingly similar. The article describes three rules to create successful virtual …

Great Virtual Teams: Rule 1: Exploit Diversity

Do you want to know how Social Media can be used to boost project success? Do you? We already know the answer for a couple of years. But not everyone is looking for it in the right direction. Virtual teams. In 2004 the Harvard Business Review published a great article by Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, …

Organizational Map of New US Government

As of today, Barack Obama will be at the center of the US government (yay!). If you want to have a good overview of how he is linked to all other governmental entities, I recommend this dynamic network visualization of the US Gov map. It takes 5 seconds to load and it will allow you …

Successful Virtual Teams With Jessica Lipnack

If you want to know stuff, you go to the experts. So, when you want to know how to work successfully in virtual teams, you go to Jessica Lipnack. She is CEO of NetAge, a company she cofounded and runs with Jeff Stamps. For three decades, Jessica and Jeff have provided expertise and tools that …