A collection of resources to help you learn more about online collaboration
Along with developing online collaborative meeting and decision making
tools, we are evangelists for making meetings and group processes more productive and rewarding. Achieving
this requires attention to purpose, process, people and technology.
Here are useful links to help you learn more about online collaboration.
Facilitation
Tips
Facilitating Virtual Teams
Integrating Technology into Group Process
FacilitatePro Meeting and Survey Software
Bookshelf
Useful Links
Practitioners
| Facilitation Tips:
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| 10 Tips for Facilitating Meetings |
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More Tips for Great Meetings Using Collaborative Technology |
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Tips for Facilitating a Distributed Meeting over the Web |
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| Facilitating
Virtual Teams:
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| Getting the Best Return on Meeting Time Investment
by Nancy Settle-Murphy in Mass High Tech, February 23, 2007 |
Virtual
Brainstorming: A New Approach to Creative
Thinking
By Nancy Settle-Murphy, Chrysalis
International and Julia Young, Facilitate.com |
| Getting
Great Results out of Virtual Meetings (white
paper, 2005, PDF) |
| Remote
Meetings: Guidelines for getting more done
in less time by Nancy Settle-Murphy
in Mass High Tech, July 26-August 1, 2004 |
| Leading
from a Distance - The Four Qualities of
Good Distance Leaders by Cynthia C.
Froggatt, Froggatt
Consulting |
| Helping
Virtual Teams Learn to Collaborate from
Afar by Nancy Settle-Murphy in Mass
High Tech |
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| Integrating
Technology into Group Process:
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| The Where Factor: New Environments for Innovative Thinking (white paper, 2006, PDF) |
| Bringing
Strategic Planning Online: Eliminating Static from Collaborative Strategic
Planning (white paper, 2005, PDF) |
| Web-based
Meeting Tools can Dramatically Improve Idea Exchange (from
the AGA Journal, Summer 2004)– PDF file |
E-meetings
Optimize the Collaboration Process and
Speed Innovation Editorial, www.Collaborate.com newsletter,
June 2003
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| Challenges
in Virtual Collaboration by Lynne Wainfan and Paul Davis, Rand Corporation 2004 |
| A
Liberal Arts College Goes Entrepreneurial (reprinted with permission
from the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges
in Trusteeship, May-June 2004) - PDF file |
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| FacilitatePro Meeting and Survey Software
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Beyond
Web Conferencing: Using Web Facilitation
to Create Value
– available in MS PowerPoint |
| FacilitatePro
Product Overview – available
in Adobe PDF format |
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| Bookshelf
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| Questions
that Work: A Resource for Facilitators by
Dorothy Strachan; Ottawa: ST Press, 2001.
Contact stpress@cyberus.ca |
| Facilitator's
Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by
Sam Kaner; New Society Publishers/Canada,
1996. |
| Virtual
Teams – Reaching Across Space, Time
and Organizations with Technology by
Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps. ISBN
#: 0-471-16553-0. |
| The SECRETS
of Facilitation – The
S.M.A.R.T. Guide to Getting Results with
Groups by
Michael Wilkinson; Jossey-Bass, 2004; ISBN
#: 0-7879-7578-8. www.LeadStrat.com |
| 68 Tips
for Getting the Most Out of Remote Meetings by
Nancy Settle-Murphy, Chrysalis International
Inc., www.chrysalisinternational.com |
| Virtual
Teams That Work: Creating Conditions for
Virtual
Team Effectiveness, by Cristina B. Gibson
(Editor), Susan G. Cohen (Editor); John Wiley
& Sons, 2003. |
| Facilitating
Uphill – Intervention Strategies
for Challenging Meetings! by Ingrid
Bens, M.Ed. published by Participative
Dynamics, Sarasota, Florida, 2003. ISBN
#: 1-890416-08-8 |
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Useful Links
Web sites
that promote effective meetings and online
collaboration |
| All
Known Idea Generation Methods by Martin
Leith |
| 3M
Meeting Network |
| Tips
for Facilitators from the Thiagi Group |
| Web
Conferencing Guide by
think of it (David R. Woolley) |
| Facilitator's
Resource Directory at FacilitationStart4All.com |
| Effective
Meetings.com |
| International
Association of Facilitators (IAF) |
| Online
Community Toolkit (Nancy White of Full
Circle Associates) |
| Tools
and Templates for Workshops (from Strachan-Tomlinson) |
| The Facilitator
newsletter |
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Practictioners
Practitioners with
proven expertise in online collaboration
or remote facilitation |
| Chryalis
International, Inc. - a consulting
firm helping organizations deliver better
results, in less time, through more productive
working sessions, whether face-to-face, remote,
or both. www.ChrysalisInternational.com |
| Interactive
Meeting Solutions - this Santa Rosa-based
consulting company pairs state of the art
technology with professional hands-on meeting
design and facilitation expertise. www.interativemeetingsolutions.com |
SolutionsSync -
Provides a combination of processes, tools,
workshops, facilitation
and professional services to revitalize
team performance and develop the full power
of innovation potential. www.SolutionSync.com
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