It uses columns rather than mark-up or annotations to support the dialog between collaborating authors. This approach is far more elegant and easy to use than most alternatives designed for the business world, and has as much to offer the virtual team as it does the virtual classroom. Based, Live, Real-Time Virtual Mentoring Service to Online Traders gives us yet one more case study demonstrating the power of technography. Imagine a live two-way radio over the Internet.
Traders can ask questions and get immediate visual and verbal response.
Those organizations that foster the development of virtual teams will experience the greatest benefits from technography. Fortunately for the technographer, there are more and more such organizations. Unfortunately for those organizations, there is still very little understanding of the nature and nurture of virtual teams. S. D. Williams touches on issues surrounding Team Building in a Virtual World in his article published on the Bell Atlantic website. And here, from DePaul University, is an excellent introduction to virtual teams by researchers Ronald John Zakaras, Fang Zhang, Susamon Horvichit, and Ying-Yuan Chen.