1/28/12 Final Project Proposal

Final Project Proposal:

Our final proposal for PRST 303 will be a case study about our virtual collaboration, detailing best practices for the theoretical issues our fictional PR team faces and also by detailing our real-world experience in working together through our initial survey of technology.

We will present our findings from the following activities by paper and presentation:

• Assessing various collaborative tools and using them to work together as a group: Skype, Collaborate, email, blog, Googledocs and Twitter.
• Agree upon technologies and the work styles of each of our own fictional personae, which will act to back light various roles members take in virtual teams.
• Describe our choices in the ways and means our group collaborates and why, detailing adoption issues, group conflicts, opportunities and resolutions, leadership and management. Importantly, we will attempt to describe why things did not work.
• Provide an updated Task vs Communication diagram, based on our experiences.

Project Timeline:

1. Week 4 will see us writing our profiles and finalizing our case problem.
2. Week 5 will see us acting out a few days of controlled communication in character via our technologies and completing our presentation for week 6.

Paper and Presentation Outline:

Introduction

1. Describe our project process
2. What ideas we had
3. Technologies we agreed to use

Body I

1. Introduction of faux company
2. Matt’s paragraph and what technology(ies) used
3. Amy’s paragraph and what technology(ies) used
4. RJ’s paragraph and what technology(ies) used
5. Baeednah’s paragraph and what technology(ies) used

Body II

1. Discuss how the use of or lack of technology affected each of our characters
2. Discuss which technologies we found useful throughout the project
3. Discuss the technologies we dismissed and why

Conclusion

1. Answers & Better Questions

Sincerely,

               The Four Star Platinum Squadron

Amy Addou
Baeednah Anderson
Matt Lechtenberg
Robert Pino