This is hopeless; I say when we go back to our seats we can still assimilate the real-time room (meeting) environment in an asynchronous fashion. Well, look at that, we can do asynchronously, what we usually do when we are in the same room. Just like Jon Mell describes less use of email by incorporating IM into email (placing it in the same spot where you create a new email)…what I would like to see at the end of The other day when I posted on social networks and ad-hoc groups , I mentioned these online tools need to mirror both our offline behaviour, and our online real-time behaviour.

Community Heartbeats - when synchronous interactions matter  That’s where synchronous events can help. What are synchronous events? Synchronous Synchronous online events are when some or all of the learners are online at the same time and interacting using tools such as Voice over IP (VoIP), telephone bridge lines, chat rooms, web meetings and instant messenger tools - This is the nineth in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick  late last year in the context of communities of practice as part of online learning initiatives. I

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For synchronous engagements, consider 7-10 minute chunks in your plan. Alternate synchronous with asynchronous as a way to keep the “heartbeat” of a group going. For example in a three week online workshop I like a  minimum of one synchronous telecon interspersed with asynchronous activity. Candace Whitehead, the Facilitator Support Specialist for the Florida Online Reading Professional Development project  funded by the Florida DOE and housed at the University of Central Florida  [link] contacted me last month inviting me to participate in a web meeting with the cohort of online facilitators working in learning and particularly around literacy issues.

It has been a while since I wrote about synchronous online facilitation is a focused way.  Focus attention: Synchronous events can provide a heartbeat for an ongoing community, group or network. Interact: Content can be compelling, but if you have people’s attention, why not focus on interaction and conversation and save the pushing of content for asynchronous. Alan Levine wrote a deliciously provocative post on last month that I’ve been meaning to comment upon, Five Ways to Run a Deadly Online Seminar . When I read it, my head was bobbing in agreement and recommendations.

love working asynchronously in text. One trend I’m noticing with my clients is a preference for synchronous online interactions, from quick Skype calls to organized web meetings using tools that allow desktop sharing, white boards and even video. (I Even across diverse time zones, there is more synchronous. Flickr Creative Commons image from James Cridland I

March 1, 2007 Collaborative Writing Tools And Technology: A Mini-Guide Collaborative writing tools are those technologies that facilitate the editing and reviewing of a text document by multiple individuals either in real-time or asynchronously. Online, web-based collaborative writing tools offer great flexibility and usefulness in learning groups and educational settings as they provide an easy mean to generate text exercises, research reports and other writing assignments in a full collaborative fashion. Free to use.

The mixing can be synchronous (i.e. at the same time) or asynchronous (one after the other). Either Time for a prediction: layered communications - a mixing of text, speech and video - will become a key issue for online communities in 2010 and beyond.  Two things this week got me thinking about the place for layered communications in online communities and social networks.  

It too helps when both parties know each other well, flow on the same wavelength, etc…this is best done in person, online synchronous methods, or asynchronously in an environment that mimics the offline world, such as an internal blogosphere or network. Once again I have come across how it’s more important to cultivate conditions for knowledge creation and sharing over trying to manage knowledge or capture it a week before it walks out the door. Actually I ranted about this on Tumblr the other day, starting off with: “Following, “if only we knew

Obviously it is not always appropriate to head straight in and correct or comment everything you see, nor anyone is going to be happy with formatted fifty-page report all carved up with in-text comments. By adding a simple feature that acts as a cross between Microsoft Word comments and an instant messaging application, this new online word processor allows you to collaborate with precision, whether you are working together at the same time from different locations, or asynchronously from completely different time zones. In short , if you are looking for an easy way to leave either