Don’t co-conspire ()

Diane Miller presents some good tips for facilitating online collaboration in an article humourously entitled

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Don’t co-conspire

I worked on a big, complex project with a team of instructional designers new to online collaboration. For the first couple of weeks I felt like I was herding cats answering the phone, responding to email and keeping track of what I said to whom. And then I realized that our project space was getting seriously underused. So I started saying “no,” to my team when they would call or email and began answering questions in the space itself – and only there. The project space took off pretty quickly after that, and my time was freed up because I could answer the questions one time for everyone to see (and I didn’t have to wonder if I was losing my mind – all of my decisions were there for ME to see as well).