Everyone is mad for collaboration these days – within orgs, with outside partners, and with funders too. That means you’re often working with lots of different folks, in many places, with tons of information and documents to share. Online collaboration tools now make it possible to bridge those distances through ‘virtual offices’ that can provide more meaningful interactions as well as record your work together. But how do you manage all those communications, make them useful and most important, deliver results? This session will briefly review the best online collaboration tools today, but will focus mostly on strategies for adoption and specific practices that can make those tools most effective.

Takeaways:

1. Quick review the most-used online collaboration tools in the sector
2. Strategies for usage adoption across orgs, cultures and time zones
3. Specific techniques for making online collaborations successful

Speaker List:

1. Teresa Crawford / United States Institute of Peace
2. Peter Crosby
3. Robert V. Goodman / American Friends Service Committee
4. Dan Robinson / CivicActions, LLC

Session Materials:

1. Effective Management of Online Collaboration Tools
2. Session wiki