White papers

Effective Facilitation Techniques to Use in e-Meetings

As e-Collaboration becomes more pervasive we are learning more about the human aspects of using technology to facilitate effective group work. This paper contains useful tips, ideas and proven techniques for making your e-meetings more satisfying and productive both for you and your team members.

The 8 Essential Ingredients of e-Collaboration Technology

To be really effective e-Collaboration programs must include eight essential ingredients - people, time, shared space, common objective, focus on the objective, common language, knowledge in the area of the objective and interaction. This paper explains how e-collaboration programs need to support each ingredient.

How to Prepare Agenda for Successful e-Meetings

Like the saying, "garbage in, garbage out", effective meetings require preparation if they are to deliver high quality outcomes.

Creating effective meeting processes is a cross between a science and an art. It is not difficult but it takes practice. Successful meeting processes take participants down a thinking guide-path that explores all aspects of the problem or issue. The process may include reviewing documents or presentations, generating options and proposed solutions, evaluating the options, arriving at a decision and writing action plans.

The purpose of this White Paper is to make agenda preparation easy and ensure that meeting facilitators obtain great results when using Grouputer e-collaboration technology.

Critical Factors for the Adoption of Collaborative Technologies

Author: David Coleman, Jeff Young - Collaborative Strategies, San Francisco

Why do some organizations fail to reap the rewards delivered by collaborative technologies? This White Paper reviews six unique and solvable issues that end user organizations need to address to ensure a successful implementation and a healthy return on investment. www.collaborate.com