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ACCO Launches Peer-to-Peer Collaboration Network

Recently, I attended a WWF Climate Savers briefing held at the U.S. Senate. Juha-Erkki Mantyniemi of Nokia Siemens commented that industry has not properly leveraged international connectivity to enable exchange of best practices, information resources and tools. In response to that, I'm proud to announce ...

ACCO has just launched the beta version of CCO Connect^TM, a peer-to-peer collaboration network and virtual office that will provide the ACCO community with a forum for online collaboration, knowledge sharing, real-time interactions and more. The site, which has already been joined by ACCO leadership and advisory board members, will be made available to ACCO's business partners and charter members, enabling a virtual office space for the ACCO community to collaborate on organizational issues as well as other topics of interest to the site's members.

Amongst the site's evolving features will be:

Library - Will provide resources such as news, white papers, ACCO materials and studies. Members will be able to download as well as add materials as appropriate.
Calendar - Can be used to schedule meetings amongst members as well as to provide information on upcoming events of interest to the ACCO community. Members will be able to add events as appropriate.
Tasks - Can be used to post tasks for working groups, as well as for individuals to post tasks to remind themselves.
Contacts - An easily accessible directory featuring contact information for all site participants.
Discussion boards - Commonly used discussion thread system enabling members to ask questions and conduct dialogues publicly. These discussions can be managed in such a way as to enable only certain user groups to participate (e.g. if Company X wants to ask a question or other members without consultant members being able to participate).
Polls - ACCO and members will be able to poll one another one topics of interest. This feature can also be used to take votes on prospective ACCO board and committee level activities.
WebEx Meetings - User groups (e.g. committees, board of directors, advisory board, etc.) will be able to meet using WebEx Conferencing capabilities.