From: "richard seltzer" Subject: Chat reminder -- "Virtual Teams" with Simon Priest, this Thursday, April 17 Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 6:31 PM BUSINESS ON THE WEB -- Where "word of keystroke" begins Please join us this Thursday, April 17. Simon Priest will be talking about "virtual teams". "Virtual teams (of two or more members) work together on aligned tasks, maintain healthy relationships, and use online communication to overcome barriers of geography, time, language, and culture. Online communication technologies include: chat, email, fax, whiteboard, telephone, video,web browsers, and other conferencing tools. Electronic facilitators enhance virtual team performance by guiding members to reflect on their teamwork processes such as trust, communication, collaboration, problem solving, decision making, planning, and leadership. Rather than hold meetings and simply talk about teamwork, virtual teaming programs present the chance to practice teamwork processes through experiential learning." Simon leads virtualTEAMWORKS.com and advises and guides corporations as they develop their own virtual teambuilding initiatives. In the past, he was acting director for a corporate university specializing in leadership development for managers and executives. He was also Professor and Executive Director of The CATI Research Center of Excellence in Canada. He has authored over a dozen books and a hundred articles related to teambuilding and leadership. His presentations on virtual teamwork and global leaders have been featured at conferences around the world. To connect to our chat sessions, go to http://www.samizdat.com/chat-intro.html We're on from 12 noon to 1 PM Eastern Time (GMT -4). Please send me your suggestions for future topics and experts, seltzer@samizdat.com I'm looking for interesting and innovative business models, products, and services. To view past transcripts and the upcoming schedule, please go to http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html Best wishes. Richard Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, www.samizdat.com Internet marketing consultant www.samizdat.com/consult.html Books on CD. Give a life-time of reading. A library for the price of a book, http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat PS -- Over the last year, as consulting work became scarce, with the decline in the economy, I've been devoting more time to my own online publishing business and store, using my own advice. I publish plain-text books on CD ROM and sell them at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat FYI -- I'm now trying a new offer that I hope will generate "viral" sales. I let customers create their own "personal anthologies" (books on CD) and earn royalties. Here's the offer: -- select up to 100 books from any or all of our "classic collections" -- I'll do all the organizing and technical work to turn your selections into a "personal anthology" on CD, custom-made for you -- you pay $49 for the first copy of your anthology; $19 each for additional copies -- I offer your anthology for sale through my online store, etc. for $19, and if people buy that CD, you earn 10% of the revenue as a royalty (paid monthly). To see what's available for inclusion, you can check the table-of-contents documents on the Web -- American Literature http://www.samizdat.com/amlitcd.html British Literature http://www.samizdat.com/britlitcd.html Children's Books http://www.samizdat.com/childcd.html World Literature http://www.samizdat.com/worldlitcd.html Non-Fiction http://www.samizdat.com/noncd.html Religion and the Occult http://www.samizdat.com/religioncd.html Books about Classical Music http://www.samizdat.com/musiccd.html or check our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat FYI -- I plan to release three new "theme" CDs soon -- US History, American Civil War, and Victoriana -- so those topics are taken. But other themes that have not yet been turned into CDs are available, or you could create any number of idiosyncratic collections based on your personal tastes and preferences. This is an opportunity -- to have a custom-made collection of your favorite books -- to act as an editor (for instance, making an anthology designed for your class or family or friends), and -- to earn a few bucks. I'm hoping that customers will come up with interesting combinations that I would never have thought of, and that the opportunity to earn royalties will motivate them to encourage others to visit our store and buy CDs.