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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.

For additional information, check out the demo video by Tim Barker, VP Products, and Robert Scoble's interview with CEO Mark Suster.

It’s important, I think, for the Open Source community to recognise that there needs to be a collation of tools to make that one killer app - straying away from the “do one thing and do it well” mentality, sure, but that’s where things seem to be headed. Mediawiki + Unobtrusive Sidenotes + a good WYSIWYG editor + some way to integrate with OpenOffice/KOffice + an email interface for email-to/from-wiki + good RSS Feeds + LDAP/AD Authentication + iCalendar (or some wikiable calendar) + exporting to PDF + whatever else as one package will provide some really stiff competition to Sharepoint, which is only improving in integration with Office with the upcoming 2007 release. You could probably use a bit of AJAX to do a number of the extras. Something like Confluence. Without of course taking Mediawiki too far down the same path as Sharepoint - it’s important that at its core, Mediawiki remains a wiki and not a bastardised spawn-of-wiki-CMS.