am currently using Google Reader and occasionally play with Snackr. Skype was my free long distance call solution for aeons, but now I often turn to Google Talk with video as a quick and easy solution, because it is totally integrated into my Gmail and I don’t have to launch Skype. Cloud-based collaboration/doc sharing. MORE >>

So what I ended up doing was finding a basic mind map to use for brain downloads and to-do items, and creating a Google Group for my team to communicate and use as a shared idea repository. already had some other stuff for a separate, but related project on Google Docs. Now I just have to migrate my team. MORE >>

Coupled with the increase in Internet bandwidth, cloud computing has facilitated the development of many of the fantastic web apps that I use and love today as services like Amazon’s EC2 and S3 and Google’s App Engine has lowered the app vendors’ startup costs and provided reliable scalability for when their user bases grow. MORE >>

Cisco Systems, for example, set out to improve interactions between its technology specialist sales teams and enterprise customers. Frequent travel and stepped-up job requirements had resulted in overstretched teams whose effectiveness had become diminished. Knowledge workers are growing in numbers. Take the title of manager. Value. MORE >>

Los Angeles-based Laura Roeder started the social media marketing company and gradually built up an entirely virtual (all-woman) team to help her handle her mounting workload. These days, non-technical mom Anne Samoilov works as her project manager, making sure a team spread from New York to Hawaii is collaborating smoothly. MORE >>