Mixed-Mode Virtual Team Spaces

Synchronous and asynchronous collaboration are in themselves, not new.  Mixed-mode however, is.  Asynchronous provides the after-hours visitation in the team space while Synchronous involves immersive, live and interactive online meetings. I.M., persistent chat and document sharing also have mixed modalities.

At WebEx, the Connect Ecosystem team meets every week, in person mostly to keep each other up to date on the progress of each sub-group.  The overall group is lead by one of the VP’s and he holds a WebEx online meeting for the remote members of the team.

We thought that what better way to exercise WebEx connect for team spaces then to create one and use it for our cross-functional team.  I set out to create a space called ‘Connect Ecosystem’.  This first screen shot shows the ‘discussions’ tab within the Ecosystem space.    Here, members can leave messages for each other or chat in real time.  The entire conversation is persistent and can be seen by all space members.