Session Details

This workshop for IT managers, web professionals and those thinking about implementing an online community for their organization, association or group.

This workshop takes a holistic view of collaboration and examines people, process and technology. We will track trends in collab-oration to see how today’s environment came about, as well as looking at scenarios for future technologies and their adoption. Virtual worlds, the semantic web and 3-D collaborative environments will be examined. A wide variety of virtual team spaces (VTS) and online community tools will be explored, including a number of open source environments and mash-up frameworks.

This workshop will also include best practices for groups and teams that work at a distance as well as the 10 rules for online communities and social network success.

A variety of exercises to determine collaborative alignment, team alignment, and strategies for getting around some common roadblocks in online community, as well as some strategies for driving traffic to communities as well as viral marketing will be explored.