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communicate and collaborate on a project or an engagement without relying on email

simply because people work together to meet objectives and reach goals, doesn't mean they are collaborating

efficiency

'Collaboration' thrives on difference, insight and spontaneity, rather than structural harmony

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Friendsourcing- Last Tuesday, I asked about a web designer for a project. I got back 14 emails in 10 minutes from different sources on Twitter.

Direct People to Good Causes- I’ve seen plenty of posts of someone doing a walk for hunger or a collection for diabetes.

GROU.PS allows you to create sharing platforms (just like web sites) for your social groups (alumni, colleagues, friends, communities etc) You can share anything (to name a few; photos, communications, locations, bookmarks, tubes, files, blog entries (diaries), to-do lists, calendars) While doing this, you don't have to spend extra efforts to share.. You just specify your favourite service providers (like Flickr for photos, or Del.icio.us for bookmarks), then we handle the rest; fetch and filtrate your data, re-format and make it online. GROU.PS can seamlessly integrate with your mobile devices.. Stay in touch with your group via SMS, email and online chat... GROU.PS may be considered as an improved version of services like Yahoo! Groups, Google Groups. The objective is to ease communication and sharing inside social groups.

They should support it both philosophically and financially, ideally even working remotely themselves. Managers who try to make virtual work look as much as possible like office work–establishing standard hours

Team members communicate regularly by phone. No matter what mix of communications technologies are used–email, IM, videoconferencing, phone–I’ve found that it’s the telephone that binds people together best in the absence of face-to-face meetings.

Team members check in with each other frequently throughout the work day.

GroupDrive Collaboration Suite GroupDrive is a business-class file and document collaboration product. Businesses can use GroupDrive to securely collaborate over the Internet without the inherent problems of emailing attachments. Because your files are stored in a central location, users always have the most current version of a document. The GroupDrive Server provides secure file storage and backup for your important business files and documents. With easy file sharing and real-time document collaboration, GroupDrive gives your team a secure private business network that lets you work at the speed of business. The GroupDrive Collaboration Suite consists of 3 components: GroupDrive Server - a secure WebDAV server for storing and collaborating on files. GroupDrive uses WebDAV over SSL. GroupDrive Client - Virtual drive connection to the GroupDrive server enables users access and save files from within any Windows application. GroupDrive Web Interface - A simple and intuitive interface that allows users to store and collaborate on documents from any machine with a web browser and Internet access.

The result is an egregious lack of productivity that may cost the U.S. economy $588 billion a year, according to a report by Basex, which has tabbed information overload as the "Problem of the Year" for 2008.

With e-mail as the biggest offender, Basex said users can save time by not e-mailing someone, and then following up with a phone call or an instant message two seconds later

Basex also said users must not combine multiple topics or requests in a single e-mail; make sure the subject clearly reflects the topic and urgency of the message; read their e-mails before sending to make sure they make sense; and will not hit reply-all unless necessary or reply with one-word e-mails such as "thanks.