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Working Together From a Distance: Best Practices for High-Performance virtual teams: How do you empower geographically dispersed teams to work well together and equip leaders for success in an increasingly virtual workplace? Organizations that have successfully implemented an online workplace will tell you that communicating clearly is the key to remaining competitive. Listen to this TechRepublic Webcast as...; Tags: Virtual Team, Electronic Communication, Webcast, Citrix Systems Inc., High-performance, Best Practice, Online Communications, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology; Webcasts 2008-02-14
10 tips for managing virtual teams: Most everyone works in a team environment, and it's generally been understood that the most effective teams are those located together. But thanks to the Internet, faster and more reliable communications, and collaborative tools, people are now coming together on teams that are no longer co-located. In fact, the...; Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Team Management, Globalization, Management, Strategy; Download resources 2007-11-13
Do you work on a virtual team?: Do you work on a virtual team?Vonage: King of spywaresIF VONAGE IS REALLY UP TO THAT EXTREM AND TAKING HELP OF PORNOGRAPHICAL STUFF TO INCREAS THE NUMBER OF ITS USERS THEN THIS IS NOTHING BUT STUPIDITY FOR A BIGBUDDY LIKE THIS AND I THINK TO BE IN THE IT FIELD...; Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Text messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular phones, phone, virtual team; Discussion threads 2006-07-21
Do you work on a virtual team?: You might be surprised. In two seminar engagements this week, it came as more than a little surprise to some of the people in attendance that they do, in fact, work on at least one virtual team. Most of the educators I spent two days with at the Getting Things...; Tags: team, virtual team; Blog posts 2006-07-21
GoLinkUp Professional (exe): GoLinkUp is a comprehensive, secure and on-demand web collaboration and remote application access tool that provides intuitive and role-based access to business applications--from remote desktop access to online meetings--all via a single interface. It combines offerings like remote desktop access; remote support and training; online presentations and meetings; virtual team...; Tags: Desktop, Virtual Team, Remote Desktop, Training, GoLinkUp, Workforce Management, Human Resources; Software downloads 2005-11-23

Development of virtual teams and Learning Communities: Students of an Internet based course in project management have during a 20 week period worked in teams of 4-6 persons. The course consisted of Swedish students living in Sweden or abroad making it impossible for many of the teams to have any face-to-face interaction. The study shows that students...; Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Team Management, Management; White papers 2005-06-18
Real Problems With virtual teams: An Analysis of the Factors Leading to Dysfunctional Online Collaboration: In online education, virtual teams play an important role in collaborative and peer learning. Unlike traditional face-to-face teams, the students in a virtual team may be geographically distributed, work in different time zones, and may never physically meet face-to-face. Universitas 21 Global, one of the new breed of online universities,...; Tags: Virtual Team, Online Collaboration, Analysis; White papers 2005-06-01
6 Ways to Work More Effectively on a virtual team: Who hasn't awakened a colleague from a deep sleep with a mistimed telephone query, wished for a quick in-person chat to resolve a sticky problem with a co-worker who's forever on the move, or didn't know where to find a critical file owned by someone half a world away? These...; Tags: Virtual Team, Problem, Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Management; White papers 2005-01-28
Managing Teams in a Virtual Environment: In today's global business environment organizations are faced with the challenge of managing projects from a variety of geographic locations. Managing, motivating and communicating effectively with virtual team members can often be frustrating and lead to the failure of the project. This webcast discusses the advantages of utilizing virtual teams...; Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Environment; Webcasts
virtual team Development and Global Collaboration Part I: How to Engage a Mobile Workforce: Team building is a staple in every manager's training, but the skills of collaboration are unique. While training on team development is legion, few address the real issues that confront a team who cannot meet face-to-face. Today's workplace needs methods that improve communication, increase collaboration and facilitate accountability. Virtual team...; Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Collaboration, Mobile, Team-building, Team Management, Management; Webcasts
virtual teams and Global Collaboration Part II - Winning Strategies for virtual teams: This webcast helps an organization capture the "New" opportunity embedded in the dynamic give and take of remote work. This webcast explains how to establish an agenda for collaboration, build the new framework for getting work done virtually and make the shift from managing events to enabling a virtual team...; Tags: Strategy, Virtual Team, Collaboration; Webcasts
Microsoft Case Study: Akzo Nobel: Organon is the largest of three pharmaceutical business units of Akzo Nobel, a leading global company in pharmaceuticals, coatings, and chemicals. Organon wanted to better organize and secure corporate information, create collaborative, flexible virtual team workspaces, and provide enhanced services, tools, and targeted information flow to its corporate leaders, research...; Tags: Team, Virtual Team, Pharmaceutical Company, Microsoft Corp., Intranet, Organon, Team Management, Management; Case studies

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Safari "Carpet Bomb" attack information released: Fellow Ernst & Young ITEC co-worker Nitesh Dhanjani released information about some of his newest research on the Safari web browser this morning, and interestingly enough, Apple has decided NOT to fix some of the issues he presented. Dhanjani reported three issues, as follows below from his...; Tags: HTML, Apple Safari, Apple Inc., Issue, Safari Carpet Bomb.It, Security, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-15
10 attributes of bad CIOs (self test): Chief Information Officers are responsible for both high-level business strategy and detailed technology decisions, making the job among the toughest in business. The high incidence of IT failure demonstrates the extreme difficulty of juggling business and technology goals that are sometimes in direct...; Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Indecision, Asset Management, Financial Management, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Virtualization and security: It's easy to spot market trends when many vendors call to schedule meetings and all of them want to speak about the same topic. The topic du mois is security in virtualized environments. Some of the suppliers are taking a very broad view of both security and virtualized environments. Others...; Tags: Network, Environment, Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine Software, Virtualization, Security, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky; Blog posts 2008-05-15
Virtualisation: Architectual Considerations and other Evaluation Criteria: Of the many approaches to x86 systems virtualisation available in the market today, the hypervisor architecture—in which virtual machines are managed by a software layer that is installed on bare metal—has gained the greatest market acceptance. This fact has translated into rapid growth and a large and expanding customer base...; Tags: Hypervisor, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; White papers 2008-05-15
With the Quickness: HD Moore sets new land speed record with exploitation of Debian/Ubuntu OpenSSL flaw: So, for those who haven't heard, a Debian packager modified the source used for OpenSSL on Debian based systems Debian and the whole of the Ubuntu family to remove the seed used for PRNG Pseudo Random Number Generator used when creating SSL keys.Â Well, HD Moore set a new record...; Tags: OpenSSL, SSH, Debian, Key, Flaw, HD, ID, Ssl/Tls, Operating Systems, Open Source, Security, Software, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Spam king, phishing buddy hit for $200m: Spam king Sanford Wallace and phishing buddy Walter Rines hijacked some 300,000 MySpace accounts and sent hundreds of thousands of spam messages and comments across the service. They got their punishment today: a whopping $225 million judgment in favor of MySpace, Information Week reports. "By using hijacked...; Tags: MySpace, Phishing, Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Icahn reportedly preps his board slate for Yahoo: That Yahoo proxy war looks like it's on, but with a new cast of characters. According to Reuters, billionaire investor Carl Icahn will move ahead with an alternate slate of board of directors. The goal: Turn over Yahoo's 12 directors at once and sell Yahoo to Microsoft--or...; Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-14
Putting Workday on SAP's radar: Now that SAP's SaaS project Business ByDesign has gone on the back burner, I've been wondering how I'm going to pass the time next week at SAPPHIRE Berlin. One thing I'll be asking the enterprise software giant is how it feels about losing out to SaaS startup Workday for a...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, SAP AG, Radar, Workday, Flextronics International Ltd., Software As A Service (SaaS), Human Capital, Emerging Technologies, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-05-14