Virtual collaboration tips and tools

Virtual Collaboration Tips and Tools SITEARM 1

Sitearm

● Planner and expediter for projects in community, spirituality, arts.

● Le nom en ligne for James Neville


Virtual Collaboration Tips and Tools

● Discuss – challenges of collaborating with people online, project approaches, engaging with outside communities, tools

● Using – project experiences of working in virtual worlds and being a graduate of IOLE

● Able to address with regard to your own career:● Team working tips● Team presentation tips● Community engagement tips● Virtual tool tips


Team working tips

● Form, storm, norm, perform

● Team roles

● Diverge, converge

● Facilitate, lead


Form, storm, norm, perform*

● Form - get to know one another, exchange some personal information

● Storm - different ideas compete for consideration including what problems the team is really supposed to solve and what leadership model they will accept

● Norm - team manages to come to have one goal and a mutual plan; all members take responsibility and have ambition to work for success

● Perform – team works smoothly and effectively, competently and autonomously; produces results

* Reference: “Tuckman”


Team roles*

● Coordinator● Shaper● New Ideas Planter● Monitor Evaluator

● Resource Investigator● Team worker● Implementer● Completer Finisher● Specialist

Members of successful teams share these roles

* Reference: “Belbin”


Diverge, converge

● New groups can't do this on their own, at first - they need a skilled, neutral facilitator. Facilitation is a tool – learn it.


Team presentation tips

● Presentation agenda● Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em● Tell 'em● Tell 'em what you've told 'em

● Presentation content● If you're not absolutely clear of your key messages,

don't expect them to be.● It is impossible to underestimate the ability of an

audience to fully understand you.


Engaging with outside communities

1. Look for candidate communities based on your interest, by listings or word of mouth. Arrange to attend one of the upcoming community events, real world or online.

2. At the event, listen, watch, and observe. Is the event addressing topics of interest? Are the interactions polite or curt, businesslike or disorganized, friendly or rude?

3. Does the community notice you? Does it invite you to introduce yourself? Does a member make a point of "friending" you, or giving you a contact card?

4. After the event, you should be in a position to decide whether to continue with this community. Remember, a negative experience “is not personal." Do not hesitate to try again with a new candidate community.


Virtual Tool Tips

● Single tool – good for one thing

● Multi tool – good for two or more things

● Parallel tool – use more than one tool together

● Real time – use tool to interact “live”

● Time delay – use tool to interact “at intervals”


Virtual Tool Overview● Text

● Voice

● Image / Video

● 3D

● Email

● Twitter

● Blogs (WordPress)

● Skype, Linked In

● Open Sim, Second Life

● Google, Bing - search

● YouTube, Vimeo - video

● Instructables - how to's

● Pinterest, Flickr - images

● Scoop.it!, Paper.li - online content curation

● Wiki's, Google Docs - collaborative documents

● Dropbox, YouSendIt - file sharing

● Facebook, Google+ - real name required


Multiple affiliations

● Each of us have multiple affiliations with which we identify - e.g., nationality, profession, location, interests

Groups:

Individuals:Group (Affiliation) Individual (Name)

DVL Sharon

DVL Sabrina

LPC Beverly

EST Beverly

NCL Mary Beth

EXN Mary Beth

EXN Paul

EXN Arthur

EST Christoper


Multiple identities

● Multiple affiliations lead to multiple identities*

Group Interlock Networks:

Individual Affiliation Networks:

NCL EXN EST LPC DVL

Bev ChrisChrisChrisChrisShar Sabr Mary Paul

Art

* Reference: nom de plume (pen name), nom de guerre (war name), nom en ligne (online name), gō (art name), etc.


Multiple reach

● Multiple identities lead to multiple reach


Summary

● Learn how to facilitate - Your roles on teams will vary.

● Virtual tools expand your reach - Use a variety of virtual tools to balance their strengths.

● Multiple affiliations expand your reach - Use multiple identities to match your affiliations.

● Keep a tab on your identities and affiliations - Your networks will change.

● Keep a tab on where you're going with your career - Your goals will change.


Thank You!

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Virtual collaboration tips and tools