The Art of Collaboration


	The Art of Collaboration

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6-13-2009 2:26 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/bd1a5734-c415-4c5b-afef-a4cd052f96ae/74D9DF28-C45E-4069-9197-DE7C7A74DFE7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/06/10/the-art-of-collaboration/" href="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/06/10/the-art-of-collaboration/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.qtask.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/06/10/the-art-of-collaboration/"><DIV class="heading2"><A class="heading2" href="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/06/10/the-art-of-collaboration/">
                              The Art of Collaboration                              </A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.qtask.com/public/blog/2009/06/10/the-art-of-collaboration/"><P>Collaboration: arguably, the <A target="_blank" href="http://developers.sun.com/dev/techarticles/collaboration.html">single most important</A> and under-appreciated thing in business since the Ark of the Covenant was used as a filing cabinet.  No matter how challenging the project or important the deadline, people only think of their part - they assume the “communication” thing will happen automatically because people talk all the time.  But as anyone who’s been held hostage by a LOST conversation will confirm, it’s possible for people to talk forever and exchange no useful information at all.
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As online project manager it’s your job to make sure that your virtual employees are really working, not just keeping busy.  Modern web-based communication tools allow everyone to talk more than was imaginable throughout most of history, but you have to keep them on-track and on-deadline - and those same tools are working against productivity, as their cousins and <A target="_blank" href="http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62035388,00.htm">chatbots</A> ask them “Hey, what do you think of this crazy YouTube clip?”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/74D9DF28-C45E-4069-9197-DE7C7A74DFE7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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