Reduce Travel with Online Collaboration (Techsoup)

In 2010, TechSoup’s GreenTech initiative help a travel reduction campaign that
we called our TeleGreen Your Work. It turned out to be a lame name, but we did
compile some pretty useful information. I liked our 10 technology tips to help
you reduce your need to travel, and also our travel reduction tools we
compiled. This updated blog post from the campaign explores some ways to
increase online collaboration and also reduce travel and work efficiency.

Online collaboration is one of these generic terms that seems to lose meaning
the more people use it. From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something
specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to
communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by
developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and
other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they
want.

## **Why Is Online Collaboration Green?**

The environmental impact of working collaboratively online is to reduce
travel. For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for
example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you _don’t_ take, you’ll
save the environment around one half of a metric ton of …

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