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Travel Reduction: Online Collaboration
Citing a case history of a 40 person company that actively promoted telework, a Telework Coalition study found that the organization was able to move to an office with less than half the space (and rent), 57% of teleworking employees reported improved job satisfaction, and 15,000 vehicle trips were eliminated in the first two years of the program.
- Read more Travel Reduction Scary Stats and Travel Reduction Mini Tips about telecommuting and travel.
- Back to TeleGreen Your Work: Travel Reduction campaign page
- Featured blog post:
- Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration
- Featured article:
- A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups
- Featured case study:
- Tennessee Libraries Use a Wiki to Share Technology Tips
- Check out the featured donations and free tools listed below.
Articles
- Eight Tools to Keep Your Team Connected
- Collaboration Tools Chart
- A Few Good Tools for Sharing Files with Distributed Groups
Blog Posts
- Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration
- Tools for Meetings Without Needing To Travel: Microsoft Communicator
Case Studies
- Going Green: Reducing Travel and Saving Money
- Schedule, Organize, Plan! Save Time, Money, and the Environment
- Using Google Docs Saves Time AND Money!
- Tennessee Libraries Use a Wiki to Share Technology Tips
External Resources
Allows team members to collaborate by file sharing, participate in online discussions and chats, plan and recording meetings via the internet.
For larger projects that require centralized management, an organization can install Groove Server 2007.
Wikis are a type of web site that allow multiple users to refer to and collaboratively edit a document inside a web browser.
Create and share you work online in google documents. You can upload and save files from your desktop, edit, store, share files with anyone and make changes in real time.
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging program. You can chat on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN!, and many others, using one program.
Robust online collaboration & conferencing including instant messaging, phone conferencing, desktop sharing and video conferencing.
