PM PM SIG - Using Web 2.0 Social Technologies to Enhance Project Collaboration

TOPIC: Using Web 2.0 Social Technologies to Enhance Project Collaboration

Web 2.0 has led to web-based communities and to social networking, video sharing, blogs and more but do project managers take advantage of these advances to enhance team collaboration? Projects require coordination, communication and interaction with project teams that are often geographically distributed and made up of members who may not even be a part of your company. How are PM tools evolving to meet these social challenges, especially in the enterprise? Can real-time technologies be used to cut down task cycle time? This program focuses on how social networks using Web 2.0 technologies can facilitate project management. Topics include the following:

• New SaaS or cloud-based PM tools
  
• Best practices in collaboration today and how they can be applied to project teams
  

Whether you have a 5-person team or a 50,000 person company, some of the same rules for successful collaboration apply. The more you share what you know, the more value you create; understanding a person’s local context is more critical to successful collaboration than any technology you may use.

SPEAKER: David Coleman

David Coleman is the Managing Director of Collaborative Strategies, an industry analyst and consulting firm located in San Francisco. David has been involved with groupware, collaborative technologies, online communities and social networks since 1989. He has many years of experience with collaboration technologies, people issues and critical processes. He has just published 42 Rules for Successful Collaboration and also co-authored Collaboration 2.0, Technology and Best Practices for Successful Collaboration in a Web 2.0 World.

David works with medium to large companies to help them build successful collaboration strategies throughout the organization. He can be reached at: [masked] or by e-mail at [masked].

MEETING FORMAT
7:00am - 7:55am Networking & Registration
8:00am - 9:00am Program Presentation
Complimentary coffee, tea and soda with meeting admission. Join us 7-8am for a no host breakfast.

FEE
$10 in advance; $15 at the door. No refunds unless meeting is canceled.

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