Remote working, a reflection

Remote working works, or at least it does in this case... (article on InfoQ)

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We have a long history of working together in offices and a very short one of doing it remotely. The tools are just about there, with plenty of new ones emerging as WebRTC starts to become a reality, but it will take us some time to adapt our way of working and learn how to use them as effectively as we do in the office.
Can remote working change our organisations? I certainly feel less of the negative effects of silos and hierarchy without the physical structures we build in offices to separate and elevate us. This leads to a feeling of greater autonomy and freedom to collaborate and connect more widely within the organisation.
So if we can be as effective working remotely, can it give our organisation a competitive edge? It will come as no surprise that I believe it can.
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(Tom Howlett, 2014)

The realities of conference calls

So if you were thinking that technology could solve the communications challenges posed by globally distributed teams...

Issues for distributed teams (survey)

What are the primary challenges of managing a virtual team?

What are most important for creating a successful virtual team?

What device-and-tool combinations do you regularly use to communicate and collaborate with your virtual team?

How often do members of your virtual team meet face-to-face?

Which of the following best represents the amount of time you spend working within virtual team(s), as opposed to local/physical teams?

Click here to take survey

Prof. Erran Carmel: Guest Lecture on “Enterprise Crowdsourcing” – Open Invitation

On Tuesday 25 March Prof. Erran Carmel will present a seminar to faculty and students on

“Enterprise Crowdsourcing”

We predict that paid crowdsourcing will be disruptive. Not tomorrow, but within a decade. We need to understand how to manage it.  Crowdsourcing is to digital labor markets as The Cloud is to computing

The lecture takes place from 3.30pm – 4.30pm on Tuesday 25th March, at Blackrock in Lecture Theatre 1.

Erran's presentation to TEDxGeorgetown...

Irish firm in alliance with Indian IT giant Mahindra

Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra has forged a partnership with AIMS Software, a subsidiary of Dublin-based Quest Computing that will see the Irish tech firms software deployed across South East Asia.

News link on Silicon Republic

How to review an article...

The following review criteria are typically applied to articles submitted for conferences.

• Is the topic relevant to the theme?
• Are the paper's objectives clear and well-described?
• Is the paper written clearly?
• Will the paper will draw an audience?
• Is the paper well organized, does it flow logically?
• If it includes a literature review is the literature appropriate and relevant to the theme?
• If it includes a methodology or research method is it appropriate?
• Are the analyses appropriate to the data presented for analysis?
• Does the evidence given support the author's arguments (if relevant)?
• Does the paper make a useful contribution or has it the potential to make a contribution?

Alternatively you might respond to the following general prompts:

• Identify the paper’s strengths
• Identify the paper’s weaknesses
• Provide suggestions for improving the paper
• Detail major issues (if any)
• Detail minor issues (if any)
• What is missing?

SILS Lecture: Framing Sustainability in the Digital Data Environment

You are invited to a lecture by Dr. Kalpana Shankar titled:

Framing Sustainability in the Digital Data Environment: the Social Science Data Archives Case

This is the third of the SILS lectures for 2014, providing an insight into the research questions of our staff throughout the School.

When: 13 February, 11.30am
Where: Room 107, in the School of Information and Library Studies - beside the James Joyce Library, Belfield.

All welcome!