Comments on: How to Plan Virtual Meetings With a Global Teleworking Team

By: AnnaCKeenan

AnnaCKeenan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:31:25 +0000

Doodle.com is great. As is etherpad.com (though etherpad is google-searchable so not confidential)

Also, this may sound low-tech, but for truly global networks, in some places of the world the internet-quality is too poor to effectively use video or even voice-conference online systems, or even to follow an etherpad.

The solution? = use private chat-rooms for meetings! It takes the same amount of time as a voice-call, and because typing is slower than talking, everyone really thinks before they say anything. There are some great text-based faciltation techniques that can be used for this, too.

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By: Norman

Norman — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:14:14 +0000

This is a great list. I’m finding that we’re holding more & more virtual meetings as clients have distributed teams. We have one client with teams across Europe so we generally have to hold meetings from 8am-11am (EDT). For another client, Avistar, with personnel in NYC and Silicon Valley, we use the company’s C3 desktop videoconferencing software. Which is one tip you might consider: videoconferencing helps you see the other people you’re meeting with, and improves the ability to communicate, especially when compared with long conference calls.

By: Jerome

Jerome — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:01:04 +0000

Hello Celine, Great post. Those are all very useful tips and we used a lot of them when working with remote teams. For times when a real time meeting is not possible but we still want to be able to get all the important non-verbal communication across, we developed TimZon. TimZon is a private video discussion solution for virtual teams. You can find more informations at: TimZon for Teleworking teams.

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