Collaboration News from Google

Discussion stuck? Call in a virtual mediator
NBCNews.com (blog)
Ever find yourself in a collaborative situation that's gone awry? Maybe one person on the team dominates the conversation or an offhand comment distracts everyone for a whole meeting. Experts in social computing are developing a virtual mediator to ...

Nextiva Supports Latest Line of Polycom Office Phones
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
The media phones are designed to improve productivity and facilitate collaboration for private office and cubicle work environments alike. The VVX 300 and 400 desk phones utilize Polycom's high-definition audio to allow for powerful communication at ...

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PR Newswire
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
"A recent report showed that, globally, more than one-third of all enterprises use some form of collaboration software, and nearly two-thirds use some form of combined audio/web conferencing," Brown said. "As the website CollaborativePlanet.com grows ...

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Excelerate Offers Valuable Strategies to Eliminate Bad Habits and Become an ...
Marketwire (press release)
From texting and voicemail best practices to efficient phone and tablet use to streamlined and highly effective communication using collaboration software, Gerber can provide insight on dozens of additional virtual communication topics. For more ...

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Companies That Don't Embrace Social Media Might Be Treading Water, Experts ...
Workforce Management
"For years, we dabbled in virtual collaboration tools, but this pulls it all together," says Ron Utterbeck, GE's corporate CIO. "It's solving the basic problem of how to find the right expert in a large organization." GE is among the many companies ...

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Ariba Plots New Course for Business Commerce
Virtual-Strategy Magazine (press release)
Collaboration is the new strategic advantage. Savvy executives recognize this. And with increasing frequency, they are turning to business networks to drive it. To support and accelerate their efforts, Ariba, an SAP Company, is delivering enhancements ...

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Tely Labs Brings Affordable Mobile Telemedicine Solution to Healthcare ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The high-definition video collaboration system provides valuable functionality for medical use cases ranging from remote patient consultations to virtual care teams, providing enhanced access to examination and treatment at unprecedented value.

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Exclusive interview: President John Cox on 4Cs Online Higher Ed Programs
Cape Cod Today
It turns out that Dr. Cox is an experienced online educator himself, having taught virtual courses through both Kent State and University of Maryland University College. Below is a piece written by Dr. Cox in response to our request to hear 4Cs' plans ...

The Office of the Future Revisited
GlobeSt.com
SAN FRANCISCO-When we talk about the office of the future, we're really talking about workplace optimization solutions. The virtual office is part of that discussion. But every workplace is different, and every program must be customized to meet the ...

CloudShare Extends Platform to Accelerate Agile Development and Testing in ...
Marketwire (press release)
Using an organization's virtual private network (VPN), teams can connect to CloudShare to gain access to more resources or collaborate with anyone, anywhere in the world. "Limited and slow access to infrastructure causes delays in release cycles and ...

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Op-Ed: Funding higher education's smart
Greensboro News & Record
The Gateway University Research Park and the N.C. A&T and UNCG Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering are examples of an innovative partnership that has become a national model for collaboration between two universities committed to developing ...

Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
Faculty Backlash Grows Against Online Partnerships
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
In each case, the professors were careful to make clear that they oppose not online technology, but rather the notion of collaborating with an outside vendor that might pose a threat, in the long term, to their principles. The professors said they had ...

On the Move: 6 May 2013
Nashville City Paper
“Dan's veteran insights and experience with virtual and matrix management as an international line manager will make him a valuable asset to our clients who are looking to solve vexing issues at the workplace.” Spatz, who speaks Russian, holds a ...

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Juniper Networks Introduces Controller Technology and New Capabilities for ...
Marketwire (press release)
With this collaboration, customers will have access to complete cloud-based solutions based on OpenStack or CloudStack and built on open standards, virtualization protocols and management of compute, storage and, for the first time networking ...

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Collaborating with strangers?
LifeHealthPro
And there's no virtual water cooler around which your remote team can gather to brainstorm new ideas. Yes, collaboration. We can think up one great idea after another and develop innovative strategies, but if we don't have cohesive teams with whom we ...

Shetland News
The isles gather at Mareel
Shetland News
For its debut year in Shetland's new venue, we were more 'down-home' as the festival unveiled its latest Shetland/Orkney collaboration – the Isles Gathering - another 'inter-county' extravaganza to follow what started a few years back via the Inter ...

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Siliconrepublic.com
Tech start-up of the week: Fishbowl Software Development
Siliconrepublic.com
This week's featured start-up is Fishbowl Software Development, a new Dublin-based venture that has launched its first free smartphone app to enable those who attend meetings or gatherings to capture their conversations and project ideas and set up ...

Getting inventions from labs to market is goal at UNO, Creighton
Omaha World-Herald
He also learned the value of collaboration. “You can have the best idea in the world, but you need partners.” At UNO's Information ... There is more research and innovation happening at UNO than people realize, vice chancellor Snyder said, mentioning a ...

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Preparing grads for college, career and citizenship
The Desert Sun
Begin implementation of the common core state standards to prepare our students for the four C's: communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking. • Ensure that all students have access to a complete A-G curriculum that enable ...

Rick Steves: European cities bring classical music to life
Buffalo News
In another collaboration with Richard Lambert's the New Phoenix Theatre, Kurt Schneiderman's Subversive Theatre Collective has returned ... Read more » · Deaths ... Before leaving, pick up a virtual baton to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic. Each time ...

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