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Posted in November 7th, 2008
What: Wireless encryption code (WPA) has been recently been cracked by researchers
Posts to Which it is Related: Pretty much any article on our site
Bottom Line: WPA, a popular wireless encryption protocol widely used today by both home wireless internet users and business wireless internet users, has been compromised. A group of researchers found a way […]
Popularity: 7% [?]
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Posted in October 21st, 2008
A topic of conversation that has recently become popular is the rapid adoption of video games by casual players. People who never played video games before and are relatively inexperienced gamers are now gaming regularly. We need to look no further than the success of the Nintendo Wii to see how the influx of casual […]
Popularity: 8% [?]
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Posted in October 4th, 2008
What: Study that showed that people are prone to lying more in email than through written communication
Posts to Which It Is Related: The Reason Why Email Should Not Be Used For Collaboration, Freeing Yourself From Email
Bottom Line: A study conducted by Rutgers and DePaul Universities studied how email affected communications among 48 graduate students. […]
Popularity: 7% [?]
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Posted in September 13th, 2008
What: Researchers have found that racial bias exists in virtual worlds according to an article in ITNews
Posts To Which It Is Related: The Mind Has A Body Of Its Own
Bottom Line: A study done in the virtual world There.com suggests that the psychological implications of race in the real world also impact the virtual space. […]
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Posted in August 30th, 2008
What: Inquirer.net article about how to manage virtual teams
Posts to which it is related: Confessions of a Telecommuter, How Do I Begin To Improve The Functioning of my Virtual Team?
Bottom Line: I found this article interesting as it was written based on the advice of three Filipino managers. It was surprising to see that the […]
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Posted in August 11th, 2008
Part of the value of working with LeadingVirtually.com is that the group actually operates as a virtual team, allowing us to face the challenges that we write about in a working environment. LeadingVirtually.com is only one of the many things that each of us is involved in. One job I had previously was a telecommuting job for a company […]
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Posted in August 7th, 2008
What: Atlanta Business Chronicle article about the bottom line benefits of telecommutingPosts To Which It Is Related: So You Think You’d Like To Telecommute?, Leading In Face-To-Face Versus Virtual Teams Bottom Line: Mike Williams, the director of programs for the Clean Air Campaign, has come up with a few statistics that will help those who […]
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Posted in July 15th, 2008
The LeadingVirtually.com team has launched a new section on “Virtual Team Tools” that features various useful tools that can help you lead your virtual team effectively. Our research-based virtual team tools have been used successfully by a large number of distributed teams and have proved to be invaluable in smooth virtual team operations. You can […]
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Posted in July 14th, 2008
What: A New York Times article about Barack Obama’s use of social networking to create a virtual organization to help his campaign.
Posts to which it is related: Improving Virtual Team Performance Using Technology
Bottom Line: Chris Hughes, one of the founders of the popular online social network Facebook, is in charge of Barack Obama’s social networking […]
Popularity: 8% [?]
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Posted in June 23rd, 2008
A face to face meeting has given me a new perspective on the advantages a virtual team can gain from a face to face meeting, even after working virtually for a period of time. These advantages fall mainly in the realm of team building.
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