Tweet At the heart of most notions of social business is collaboration: helping people work together better with social technologies. This is a reductive definition, social business is much more than that…but that is for another blog post. One: “Successful collaborative teams practice deep listening”. Great collaboration. MORE >>

Virtual Team Success from Darleen Derosa and Richard Lepsinger is good stuff, based on research, and written by people who've been thinking about this topic for a while. decade ago , Darleen’s earliest work in this field  was a research study of how “naturally” virtual teams perform over time using different kinds of media. MORE >>

This one , from Carl Eidson at Wilson Learning, rests on research published in Sloan Management Review this year that reinforces our findings in our 2004 Harvard Business Review article : virtual teams can outperform their face-to-face counterparts.if Keep all team members in close communication. they behave like grown-ups. MORE >>

The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina recently published a useful white paper on the topical area of developing skills for virtual teams. What I found most interesting was the section on Virtual Team Challenges. Virtual TeamsIt is available online and in PDF. MORE >>

and Social Business, the social evangelists, were starting to become rather scarce and very rare to be seen out there on the Social Web. “ My frustration lies not in their understanding of ‘what’ a social business looks like, but rather their lack of understanding in ‘how’ an organization can make that transition. To quote: . MORE >>