Comments on: Time Zone Trouble

By: Lukas Koster

Lukas Koster — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:08:42 +0000

http://posterous.com/ is interesting, they now have group blogs, password protected blogs, integration with twitter, facebook, etc. and implicit email lists. See http://blog.posterous.com/ for more information

By: Lukas Koster

Lukas Koster — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:20:38 +0000

I meant to give my full name in my comment, but I was logged in as “lukask” in wordpress, so somehow wordpress took over my identity, sorry….

By: lukask

lukask — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:17:30 +0000

Hi Marieke, we have this situation in http://igelu.org, the International Group of Ex Libris Users. we have volunteers from all over the world. In the Steering Committee for instance there are people from Europe, Australia and the US. This makes finding meeting times a real challlenge We have monthly calls, and we indeed switch times of day (also influenced by daylight savings time periods), timeanddate is essential here. Most communication is done by email. In some cases we use Google Docs.
Lookingfor a tool supporting threads is a good idea, this just does not work with email.
I am not sure there are any “magic solutions” either, like Juliette said.
Meeting face to face at least once a year is in my view essntial, by the way

By: David Kline

David Kline — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:25:27 +0000

Some great tips. When Time travel is properly invented stuff will get a lot easier but till then being practical is the most important thing.

By: Juliette Culver

Juliette Culver — Tue, 26 May 2009 12:50:13 +0000

I worked with people in California for a year and a half and I’m not convinced there are any magic solutions, other than to really make the most of that 5pm to 6pm slot for phone calls, video conferences etc., being careful over the use of e-mail (as conversations can easily take forever) and being self-disciplined so that you don’t let work take over all your evenings. I think the most difficult things were setting boundaries about availability in the evenings and getting used to the feeling of leaving work with e-mails in your inbox etc. (whatever time you left!)

I can still tell you what time it is on the west coast without having to think about it

By: Priyanka D

Priyanka D — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:01:49 +0000

Good article. And i guess the main solution is to get some overlapping time. Either by some people coming in early or going off late from work…
We have a project management tool with emailing, blogging and microblogging feature.
something of this kind should also help!