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    Herding Cats Through the Gate to Cyberspace
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    Herding Cats Through the Gate to Cyberspace

    By Claude Whitmyer

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    About this ebook

    Virtual collaboration and learning (VCL) technology seems tailor made for large-group interventions. An expanding array of tools appears to hold great potential for organizational change and learning.

    To name a few, example tools include:
    - Web-based meetings
    - Asynchronous discussions
    - Data sharing
    - Group document editing
    - Just-in-time training
    - Online surveys
    - Keyword searchable document repositories

    However, change consultants or organizational development professionals who anticipate a swift, easy introduction of technology may be in for a rude awakening. Without appropriate facilitation, any VCL initiative may flounder along with the intervention it was intended to support.

    Table of Contents
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    Executive Summary

    Four Types of Cats
    - Non-Adopters
    - Early Adopters
    - Late Adopters
    - Middle Adopters

    Principles, Applications, Challenges and Proven Solutions

    - Principle 1. A successful VCL initiative must have interest and meaning for the group.

    - Principle 2. Once a tool is in place, leaders must actively and repeatedly draw attention to its availability, modeling its use and best practices.

    - Principle 3. Virtual communications and learning technology must be useful and usable.

    - Principle 4. The quality of the VCL experience may be positively influenced when participants are trained in best practices and provided with easy access to answers for frequently asked questions.

    - Principle 5. The same design cycle applies to the introduction of virtual learning and communications technology as to any other planning process.

    - Principle 6. The introduction of virtual communications and learning technology is a continuing, rather than a one-time, process.

    Conclusions and Implications

    Resources and Links

    About the Authors

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaude Whitmyer
    Release dateJun 1, 2011
    ISBN9781458050168
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    Herding Cats Through the Gate to Cyberspace
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    Claude Whitmyer

    Claude Whitmyer is the co-author of Running A One-Person Business, and editor of two anthologies, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood and In The Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World. As a business consultant with more than 30 years of experience, he has provided resources, training, and guidance to many hundreds of individuals seeking creative and meaningful work in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. He has also worked with managers in such corporations as the American Hospital Association, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu America, NASA, Pacific Bell, and Southland Corporation.

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