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Virtual Community

Is it possible for a team to be cohesive, effective and healthy and not work in the same building? The short answer: Yes. But like any team or community, it takes work. Light & Life Communications is a team of nine that works in three states in seven cities. Over the past two years, we’ve built something fairly solid as a team. From time to time, we’ll write about how we collaborate...

Video Conferencing

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With a virtual team of communication professionals leading a worldwide organization, the challenge in front of us is: “How do we connect and collaborate?” We’ll be writing a lot about virtual community in the coming months, but today I want to focus on video conferencing. In our work at the Free Methodist Church – USA, we have a few different groups with video conferencing needs:...

A New Way To Work

Many offices are moving to what’s been called a “distributed workforce” or virtual team. With the advent of so many collaborative tools, it’s easier than ever to work from a home office effectively and efficiently. There have been some recent posts about at-home work environments from popular blogs like Signal vs. Noise, Work Shifting and Home Office Hustle. Primarily...

Why Leadership Matters

Recently, I finished my M.A. in Communications from Spring Arbor University. It’s an online degree program which took me nearly six years to finish while I juggled many other events in life, vocation and family. My thesis centered around the story of the past two years as I’ve been helping lead an organization through change. I’ve been asked to consider turning the thesis into a...

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