[esocialaction] Your experience of Virtual Teams: Help with a 20min interview?

[Simon Buckingham Shum]

Hi

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.

If you're willing to chat on phone/skype to Christine Walsh, please  
cc. your reply to her.

thanks

Simon

Dr Simon J. Buckingham Shum
Senior Lecturer in Knowledge Media
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, UK
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/sbs
T: +44 (0)1908 655723   F: +44 (0)1908 653169


From: Christine_Walsh at wvi.org
Date: 5 December 2008 17:10:59 GMT
To: sbs at acm.org
Subject: introductory note to potential interview participants

Dear Sir or Madam,

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 a small group with a common purpose interacting  
interdependently on agreed tasks across boundaries of space, time and  
organization supported by technology. We would like to survey members  
of virtual teams inside and outside of our organization who are in  
different work sectors.

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.

Thank you for your consideration!

Best,

Christine Walsh
Christine Walsh  |  Research Assistant, PMIS  |  World Vision  
International  |  www.wvi.org
Phone: 202-572-6504  |  Fax: 202-572-6491  |  E-mail:  
Christine_walsh at wvi.org
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