In the web content service I run, I need to gather work-from-home writers together and help them work as a team…When managing a team of very different people all over the globe, what can you do to keep the team, and the work, from imploding?

Link: Avoiding Conflicts Within a Teleworking Team

Online survey tools can be a very cost-effective way for delivering surveys, collecting results, and then analyzing the results all through one central system. While they’re not going to be the right fit for every research need (for instance, a paper survey is likely to get a much higher response rate at an in-person event, and provide more accurate data among populations that are not as comfortable with computers), online surveys are great for gathering informal data quickly and easily.

Covers:

• What Do These Tools Do?
• Basic Survey Tools
• Lower Cost Integrated Solutions
• More Advanced Survey Packages
• Choosing the Right Survey Tool

Link: A Few Good Online Survey Tools

To Wiki or Not To Wiki? Community leads across the web love wiki technology, attracted by its flexibility and low cost, but concerned about control issues and barriers to participation. When do wikis make most sense?

I recently led a session on wiki implementation at the Online Community Unconference. The collective wisdom of the group informed the following list of factors for when wikis work best…

Continue reading at: When To Use a Wiki?