Wow! What a terrific looking solution. I really like the interface. Very Gmail like obviously so it’s immediately intuitive. How long has this been available? How did it slip past my radar? Are you targeting dev teams primarily? I ran a Windows component dev company in a previous life and they have devs in China, Vietnam and Japan. This would be perfect for them I would think. Much better than Groove and much less resource intensive. But, dev teams aside, this looks like a great solution for any company that has a virtual workforce.

Great couple of posts on virtual teams. I agree that teams will become more and more geographically dispersed in the future.

Having worked in that environment, collaborating with people in time zones completely out of phase with my own, I realized that with little or no overlapping working hours it was very difficult to get to know someone and without knowing each other it was difficult to be effective.

To create a face-to-face type relationship but with the convenience of email, I created http://www.timzon.com.

It’s a secure visual collaboration solution that enables remote teams to effectively collaborate through recorded conversations.

I would be very interested in your feedback on this solution.

Regards,
Jerome.

The Serene Workspace http://bit.ly/15WG54

A worthy virtual workspace to be sure!

The home office did a pretty good job communicating with me and remember, the tools we had then were no where near as sophisticated as those we have at our disposal today.

Where we did fall down was in that sense of team. That’s why I feel a tool like Socialcast, with Chris Brogan’s enhancements, can really be effective in this area. You could “keep up” with what was going on without being constantly distracted.

I can’t help but think that we’ll see more virtual workers and workspaces not fewer as we move forward. In this always on, almost realtime, 2010 web world that we live in, the need to be in an office just doesn’t seem to be there. The cost savings alone, from both a business and employee standpoint, seem to make this a foregone conclusion to me. What we’ve always called “control freaks” are the only wild card in the equation for me. In companies where those types are in charge, I don’t really see virtual workers prospering.