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Advice For Managing Remote Teams

View from Seed

JM : Typically, with remote workers, you need to establish a more regular cadence of check-ins since you’re not seeing them face to face in an office where impromptu conversations can happen. Have a wiki where documentation of knowledge. ” and even “did I enjoy the conversation?”

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Book short: Life Isn’t Just a Wiki

OnlyOnce

Book short: Life Isn’t Just a Wiki. The importance of what the authors dismiss as “the last 1 or 2% of high fidelity” quality to the conversation is critical. One of the best things I can say about Remote: Office Not Required , by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, is that it was short. Visited 1 times, 1 visits today).

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 19: Carmen Medina and Don Burke

Steve Blank

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Upon her retirement from CIA, she received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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Stop emailing me! How to get out of your inbox and back into work

The Next Web

Instead, create a wiki or a white paper to disseminate important information that will be repeatedly accessed by your team. Likewise, high-level conversations about team progress, performance, and satisfaction should not be circulated via email. The consensus: Keep the most important conversations out of email.

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The Five Apps You Should be using with MS Teams

The Startup Magazine

This level of integration allows users to see assignments, tasks, and relevant conversations via teams without having to manually update individual tasks helping keep everyone up to date and productive. Often Wiki is deleted without a second glance but the app can be utilized to better collaborative productivity.

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How Ideas Grow: Seth Godin Inspires an iPad App

Up and Running

So depending on the conversation I’m having with my audience, my ‘next’ page can be any of eight. As a follow-up to the post, Seth started a wiki so that people who might want to make this idea a reality could share ideas on putting it together. In addition, the app supports an external monitor.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

What I notice is that people further the conversation, talk with each other, network, try to get noticed (linking to their websites, etc.). It also feels very wiki like. It’s true. I go there frequently and often spend as much time reading the comments as I do the post. I rarely only read the post.