Project Networking

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Social networking is becoming a powerful tool for savvy project managers, and leveraging social networking platforms can pay big dividends for your global project teams. Here are some considerations before adopting a social networking tool for your project, as well as an overview of some effective options to explore.

Driven by the demands of globalized business, many projects today are growing in complexity with project managers often being asked to do more with less. The ability for project managers to successfully navigate this challenging environment is made increasingly difficult by the global, disparate nature of many project teams. Successful project managers recognize these challenges and have begun to leverage social networking to improve the outcomes of their projects. They recognize that there is value in both internal and external social networks to help bring virtual teams closer together and quickly tap into subject matter expertise in a fast, cost effective way.

There are several key challenges that social networking can address. How you ever found yourself on a project team where you needed quick subject matter expertise, but you didn’t know where to look or have the resources to seek it out? Have you found project communications difficult when interfacing with global teams across multiple time zones? Many project managers become so …

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