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This paper examines how virtual teams have become a feature of modern business, thanks to the ready availability of technological tools to facilitate this. On the one hand, this is a great advantage, as virtual team work can cut down on expenses such as travel, while still making possible the team work that is so often necessary to facilitate ambitious projects. However, virtual teams bring with them their own set of challenges:Virtual teams have become a feature of modern business, thanks to the ready availability of technological tools to facilitate this.

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"Virtual teams have become a feature of modern business, thanks to the ready availability of technological tools to facilitate this. On the one hand, this is a great advantage, as virtual team work can cut down on expenses such as travel, while still making possible the team work that is so often necessary to facilitate ambitious projects. However, virtual teams bring with them their own set of challenges: A steadily growing number of managers find themselves leading project teams with members located literally around the world. Yet, in many instances, the budget doesn't allow the team to meet on a regular..."

Tags:business, virtual, leadership

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This paper answers questions about the virtual organization and how people in the organization communicate with one another, noting that the term "virtual" refers to the entity that does not exist in the "real" world but instead is found only in cyberspace, usually on the Internet. The paper further explains how the virtual organization is a real organization, and it may have an actual facility somewhere in which some people work and communicate with others, however, most of the members of the organization "go" to the organization online, communicating by e-mail and Internet connection.

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"The term "virtual" when talking about a virtual organization refers to the fact that the entity being discussed does not exist in the "real" world but instead is found only in cyberspace, usually on the Internet. A virtual organization is a real organization, and it may have an actual facility somewhere in which some people work and communicate with others. For most of the members of the organization, however, the only way they "go" to the organization is online, communicating by e-mail and Internet connection. If the organization is a store, it presents its wares and takes orders on the Internet. If it is a service, that service is accessed on the Internet and then provides its service in the same way, perhaps..."

Tags:virtual, organizations, communication

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This paper examines two of the audio installation works of Canadian artist Janet Cardiff "The Large Slow River" and "Missing Voice" in the context of creating virtual realities. The paper also looks at aspects of the history of recorded sound and voice. In addition, the writer discusses virtual reality as a personal storytelling device. The first page presented in this article is a research proposal.

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"The creation of virtual reality is an attempt to re-create the world of actual human experiences through digital means, always attempting to make it more and more realistic. Janet Cardiff's work attempts this also, but without using digital visual representations of reality. Instead she uses sounds and words to elicit the memory and pre-existing knowledge of the audience/participant. This process creates an even more realistic "virtual reality," since memory often involves synesthesia, using all five of your own senses and not just the digitally created artificial ones of computer "virtual reality"."

Tags:virtual, reality, cardiff

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This paper provides answers to three questions centering upon communication in the virtual workplace of the twenty-first century. Specifically, the paper looks at the interplay between communications technology and human factors, at the chief differences between mediated and unmediated forms of communication, and the top five skills that managers and employees must possess in order to fully maximize the benefits of electronically-mediated virtual communication.

Tags:communication, virtual, environment

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The writer explains that virtual teams are making it possible to bring together experts from remote locations so that they can work together electronically as though they were in the same room. This paper discusses the virtual team concept, keys to implementing it successfully, specialized software that can be used to support it, and suggestions from some managers experienced at using it.

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"Virtual teams are making it possible to bring together experts from remote locations so that they can work together electronically as though they were in the same room. This paper discusses the virtual team concept keys to implementing it successfully specialized software that can be used to support it and suggestions from some managers experienced at using it. Virtual teams are justifiably one of the most lauded ... "

Tags:virtual teams, telecommuting, productivity, teamware, groupware

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In this article, the writer constructs a virtual museum using 12 works of art from the Paleolithic era to the Renaissance.

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"Image the Venus of Willendorf can be found online at http/witcombe.sbc.edu.willendorf.willendorfdiscoveryhtml. This statuette was carved from a fine porous oolitic limestone not found in the Austrian region where it was originally discovered leading archeologist Josef Szombathy to conclude that it had been brought there from elsewhere. This Paleolithic figure of a female is generally recognized as a fertility symbol and is said to fit into ..."

Tags:art, virtual museum

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This paper describes virtual supply chains, noting both their advantages and disadvantages, and then explains how to circumvent some of the latter.

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"Supply chain management in the ...st century is moving to the virtual environment, just as many other processes have already done. Most of the information that businesses keep today is digital so their transactions take place digitally as well. A virtual supply chain is more than just a chain that is connected electronically, however, it represents an organization structure that facilitates efficient and effective flows of both physical goods and information in a seamless fashion. The advantage of a virtual supply chain..."

Tags:virtual supply chain, supply chain, supply chain management

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This paper considers training and development for a virtual team concept for a beer company expanding operations in Italy and Germany, noting how the team concept has become more common in recent years. It looks at how it has been used with problem-solving teams, cross-functional planning teams, sales teams, technology integration teams, with teams serving to improve coordination and cooperation, empower people, direct creativity and innovation and cut costs.

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"The move by this beer company to expand operations in Italy and Germany will follow the virtual team concept and requires particular emphasis on training and development, especially with reference to the creation of virtual teams. Italy and Germany are selected for their particularly advanced status as countries with strong brewing culture and so with an already-trained workforce for this sort of expansion. Longenecker and Neubert (2000) note how the use of teams has become more common in recent years and has been seen with problem-solving teams, cross-functional planning teams, sales teams, technology integration teams, and so on. Teams serve to improve coordination and cooperation, empower people, direct creativity and innovation, and cut costs. "

Tags:virtual, teams, business

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This paper provides a basic explanation of virtual private networks and how they operate, with an emphasis on their many levels of security. It looks at the problem of security of private data.

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"With the advent of globalization many companies now have wide area networks WANs for communicating with their offices and customers around the world. WANs are superior to public networks in terms of reliability performance and security but they are expensive due to the cost of the leased lines used to support them. Now that the Internet reaches around the world therefore many companies are reducing costs by using it as a virtual WAN instead of installing a physical WAN. These virtual private networks VPNs are ..."

Tags:VPN, virtual private networks, encryption, IP security, firewall

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This paper looks at three virtual museums--the Design Museum, Metropolitan Art Museum, and Seattle Art Museum, providing description of their permanent and current exhibitions and public focus.

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"The World Wide Web has excellent resources for people who are unable to visit all of the museums in person that they would like to see. I found three interesting museums online that are the subject of this essay; the Design Museum developed by the British Council, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum. Each of these three virtual museums offers distinctly different works of art and other amenities. The Design Museum does not appear to have a bricks-and-mortar museum associated with..."

Tags:Design Museum, British Council, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, online museum, virtual museum