Top Ten Reasons to Work on a Virtual Team

So Kara J (a.k.a. K-Jo) and I are doing a presentation at the Oklahoma ASTD conference next week. Our presentation is called “Building Successful Virtual Teams on a Shoestring” and we need your help. We’re going to do a top ten list and we’d like your help to make a video montage.

So, read our list below and when you’ve finished laughing, pick out one or two lines you like. (Feel free to make up your own if you’re so inspired.) Get out your webcam or video camera or super 8. Whatever records moving pictures. Film your amazing self delivering the line(s). Then e-mail the video to karajones86 at gmail dot com. Almost any film format will work, but try for .avi, .wmv, mpeg, mpg, or mp2. We’ll have the finished product at the conference AND I’ll post it here, too, after the conference (via YouTube, of course). (Come to our session. We’ll have candy! And Smencils! Seriously.) We’ll post it to youtube after the conference.

Cross your fingers and wait to see if you win the Quik Trip gas card in the random drawing at our session at the conference.

Top Ten Reasons to Work on a Virtual Team

1. You can attend web conferences in your pajamas and fuzzy slippers.
2. You won’t catch swine flu from that guy who comes into work with the 105 degree temperature.
3. You don’t have to share your cookies with anyone.
4. No one can see you rolling your eyes during conference calls.
5. With all the money your company saves on travel, it can afford to send your boss to that conference in Cancun: Innovations in Employee Appreciation.
6. You don’t have to sit next to that guy who only bathes once a month…for “political” reasons.
7. No one says “while you’re up, could you get me some coffee…a doughnut…pick up my lunch?” What am I, your personal assistant? Ask the intern!
8. It’s easier to ignore pick up lines from co-workers like “What’s an avatar like you doing in a Second Life like this?”
9. When something goes wrong, it’s always easier to blame someone whose cubicle isn’t next to yours.
10. You can work anytime, anywhere, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.