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Journal of Internet Social
Networking & Virtual Communities
Virtual Collaboration: The Skills Needed to Collaborate in a Virtual Environment
Shelly R. Roy
Fairmont State University, School of Business, Gaston Caperton Center, Clarksburg, USA
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 629512, Journal of Internet Social Networking and Virtual Communities , 8 pages, DOI: 10.5171/2012.629512
Copyright ©
2012 Shelly R. Roy. This is an open access article distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution License unported 3.0, which permits
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided that original work is properly cited.
Abstract
With
support from the scholarly literature, the author of this paper argues
that to succeed in virtual collaborative teams (VCTs) individuals need
to have relationship building skills, which include the ability to
establish trust, familiarity, a positive environment/context, and
embracing diversity, as well as communication skills, which include the
use of simple language, ambiguity, and knowledge sharing. The
author of this paper further argues that individuals need collaboration
skills, which include autonomy/delegation, motivation, adaptability,
and innovation, as well as technological skills, which include the use
of web collaboration technologies, and virtual worlds/avatars to engage
in successful collaboration in virtual environments. In addition,
this paper also argues that despite the many advantages of VCTs, many
disadvantages to their use still exist.
Keywords: Virtual collaboration, virtual collaboration skills, virtual collaboration barriers.
Keywords: Virtual collaboration, virtual collaboration skills, virtual collaboration barriers.
