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		<title>Collaboration tools for freelancers, etc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read a great post today over at CollaborationIdeas.com, encouraging freelance workers, work-from-homers, and the self-employed to leverage the power of collaboration.   Lorie shared several good ideas, including communicating, groupware, maintaining your workspace, and others.  One of them was to maintain good notes in writing &#8211; to help you, your customers (and your partners) to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=456&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The biggest downside of virtual teams?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 04:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[.. when you&#8217;ve scored a major win at work, and are unable to take a victory lap together with your colleagues.  They still haven&#8217;t quite worked out a good long-distance replacement for grabbing a couple of pints with your team at the pub. Cheers, Eric Tagged: Virtual Teams<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=248&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Teams and Project Management</title>
		<link>http://blog.imroadmap.com/2010/04/02/virtual-teams-and-project-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornelius Fichtner, over at the PM Prepcast, has a pretty good interview with a Cisco collaboration expert on virtual team best practices.  It&#8217;s one of the audio episodes of his PM Prepcast product for people working on sitting for the PMP exam. PM Prepcast (High-Res):  http://www.premiumcast.com/vp/50398/16029/ PM PrepCast (Low-Res):  http://www.premiumcast.com/vp/56318/16029/ Additional commentary and analysis of the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=193&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inc. Magazine:  Virtual Teams, um, actually work!</title>
		<link>http://blog.imroadmap.com/2010/03/31/inc-magazine-virtual-teams-um-actually-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks over at Inc. magazine have finally caught up to 1999 and gave virtual offices a shot.  Guess what?  The world didn&#8217;t end, much to the surprise of some of the management and participants.  Actually, often lead to higher productivity. Here&#8217;s the transcript from an interview on NPR&#8217;s Marketplace show recently.  I&#8217;ll return to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=190&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The prime real-estate of collaboration:  overlapping timeslots</title>
		<link>http://blog.imroadmap.com/2009/04/03/reprise-of-an-old-rant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know &#8211; for all the advances in collaboration technology over the years, it&#8217;s still a huge challenge to collaborate at a distance.  Even worse than physical distance, are distant timezones.  And the competition for those scant overlapping time slots.  When you are separated by distance, you miss out on watercooler conversations, quick &#8220;FYI&#8217;s&#8221; from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=82&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tools and Tips for Virtual Teams</title>
		<link>http://blog.imroadmap.com/2008/05/04/off-topic-remote-worker-tip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 01:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Unified Communications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recall my earlier musings the use of chat for the remote worker&#8230; well &#8230;. just to show that that&#8217;s not the only dead horse I beat, here&#8217;s another, non-chat/IM suggestion for when working from home/remote. Get yourself a mimio whiteboard capture tool. No need to buy the $1000 fancy new ones at retail. You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=73&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>so&#8230;. you&#8217;re working remotely &#8230; now what?</title>
		<link>http://blog.imroadmap.com/2008/05/01/so-youre-working-remotely-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 00:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all seen these articles before &#8230;.. The perils, pitfalls, pros and cons of working from home or working from the office. The temptations cited by some commentators, such as sleeping in or slacking off in front of the TV, I would say are not &#60;ahem&#62; location-oriented problems. Rather those are personnel-oriented problems. :-) In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=62&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telecommuting harmful to the office-bound?</title>
		<link>http://blog.imroadmap.com/2008/01/13/telecommuting-harmful-to-the-office-bound/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Kristoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one from the Department of Contrarianism: According to a recent study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, too much telecommuting by some hurts the morale of those back in the office. This is relevant to IM and unified messaging, as these are among the technologies most often cited as effective enablers of telecommuting. The argument is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.imroadmap.com&amp;blog=658277&amp;post=57&amp;subd=imroadmap&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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