If you are a remote member of a virtual team, you’re responsible for doing the role that you have been contracted for — maybe that is writing, design, programming, or something else. But for your virtual team to flourish, you need to take on other roles as well. This is especially true if you are the only remote member your team. MORE >>

When you work with a new team for the first time, especially if your colleagues are located in different cities across the globe, you’ll be sending important information to them without knowing much about them personally. Teams with low initial trust lacked this enthusiasm. How do you encourage trust in your remote teams? MORE >>

Binfire offers distributed teams a free solution for online collaboration that makes it simple to stay on track. On top of these helpful features, here are a few of the other things you can do with Binfire: Communicate with Your Team. The quick status updating feature makes it possible for team members to keep each other in the loop. MORE >>

It’s one thing to work in a team with one or two off-site members. But what about entirely dispersed teams, where none of the members are located in the same office? To get it right, team leaders need to consider the interplay of three crucial factors: frequency, transparency, and variability. Frequency. Transparency. MORE >>

How can curation help keep your remote team on the same page? With aggregation, the precursor to curation, we generally selected content for our personal consumption and had little filtering control. It can be frustrating to try to get information you want to share to everybody on your team who could benefit from it. Scoop.it. MORE >>