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Hi<div><br></div><div>I've been contacted by a humanitarian relief & devpt agency I know, who are trying to improve their virtual teamworking. They're seeking people willing to share a bit of their experiences. It's less about the technology, more about the experience of teamwork compared to co-present teams, and with cross-cultural differences.</div><div><br></div><div>If you're willing to chat on phone/skype to Christine Walsh, please cc. your reply to her.</div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Sans" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><b style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; font-weight: bold; ">Dr Simon J. Buckingham Shum</span></span></span></span></b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Sans" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; ">Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Media</span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Sans" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; ">Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University</span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Sans" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; ">Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK</span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Lucida Sans" size="1" style="font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Lucida Sans'; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><a href="http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs">http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs</a></span></span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Sans" size="1"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans'; font-size: 9px; ">T: +44 (0)1908 655723 F: +44 (0)1908 653169</span></span></span></font></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:Christine_Walsh@wvi.org">Christine_Walsh@wvi.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">5 December 2008 17:10:59 GMT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:sbs@acm.org">sbs@acm.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#000000" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><b>introductory note to potential interview participants</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dear Sir or Madam, </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">My name is Christine Walsh, and I work with a team called the Program Management Information System team within World Vision International, a humanitarian organization. Our team is interviewing members of virtual teams in order to find some best practices to implement in our team. For the purpose of our interview, we are defining a virtual team as</font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i> </i></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"><i>a small group with a common purpose interacting interdependently on agreed tasks across boundaries of space, time and organization supported by technology</i></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><i>.</i></font><font size="2" face="sans-serif"> We would like to survey members of virtual teams inside and outside of our organization who are in different work sectors. </font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Right now we are creating a short list of interviewees and will begin interviewing partcipants in the next couple of months. If you are a member of a virtual team (whether it be your main work group, committee, etc.), would you be willing to be interviewed over the phone for 20 minutes? If you are interested, please call me or e-mail me so that I can add you to our list and give you further information.</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Thank you for your consideration!</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best,</font> <br> <br><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Christine Walsh<br> </font> <table width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td width="98%" bgcolor="#efefef"><a href="mailto:Christine Walsh/LIMIT/WVIO/WorldVision"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>Christine Walsh</u></font></a><font size="1" face="Arial"> | Research Assistant, PMIS | World Vision International | </font><a href="http://www.wvi.org/"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>www.wvi.org</u></font></a><font size="1" face="Arial"><br> Phone: 202-572-6504 | Fax: 202-572-6491 | E-mail: <a href="mailto:Christine_walsh@wvi.org">Christine_walsh@wvi.org</a><br> [ Mailing: </font><a href="http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?BFCat=&Pyt=Tmap&newFL=Use+Address+Below&addr=300+I+Street+N.E.&csz=20002&Country=us&Get%A0Map=Get+Map"><font size="1" color="blue" face="Arial"><u>300 I Street N.E.</u></font></a><font size="1" face="Arial">, Washington, DC, 20002, USA ]</font><p><font size="1" face="Arial">This transmission is intended for the sole use of the individual and entity to whom itnto</font> </p></td><td width="1%" bgcolor="white"></td></tr></tbody></table> <br></div><br></div></body></html>