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Sococo offers virtual work spaces. (Mac version not available yet.)

By Isaac Gube, published in Six Revisions (blog), March 2, 2010. Article explores collaborating with colleagues in different time zone. Recommendations include regular (virtual) meetings, organization and task management, virtual brainstorming, and more.

Posted by Hans de Zwart to his blog, Technology as a Solution..., July 19, 2011. de Zwart conducted an experiment with his virtual team (18 people) asking them to "narrate their work," using the microblogging tool Yammer. He tried to make the rules as easy as possible, so there was no requirement on how frequently they blogged, etc. At the end, he conducted a survey, which is summarized in this post. I strongly recommend reading the original post as well (link in 1st paragraph).

Is this the equivalent of our "Rants and Raves" or coffee klatch? Would microblogging seem less onerous a task, so that we might do it more frequently? Is this the "killer app" for project management?

By Avdi Grimm and a service of ShipRise LLC. This site does not appear to be updated too often, but contains podcasts and posts about "geographically dispersed" workers, or those who, like us, work on virtual teams. The tabs Tips & Hacks and Toolkit both seem useful.