In the spirit of reuse, I thought it would be nice to put all of my thoughts the pros, cons and things to think about when making the move between corporate web working and freelance web working, and vice versa. Read More »
Collaboration
Working from home has many advantages. I have an office with a door and a window, a fully stocked kitchen with all of my favorite foods and a much shorter commute involving a few stairs and no traffic. However, I don’t have co-workers hanging around where… Read More »
I should admit to a dirty little secret: I’m a productivity junkie. I get an enormous amount of pleasure out of finding faster and more efficient ways to accomplish everyday tasks; I love to find better ways to gather and process information more quickly. Read More »
As a community manager, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about metrics. I measure activity across the community to watch our progress in various areas. Recently, I’ve been thinking about how my metrics approach could also apply to corporate web workers. Read More »
I’m one of those people who takes advantage of telecommuting and flexible work hours to make sure that I am as productive as possible. I’ve managed to find a pretty good balance between work and life by making adjustments to the typical 9-to-5 day. Read More »
While corporations can learn from web workers, I think that the reverse is also true. As someone who has worked recently on both sides of the fence, I thought it would be interesting to think about what web workers can learn from corporations. Read More »
There are many reasons I love being a community manager: I get to meet interesting people; no two days are ever the same; and it’s a job that can be tailored to fit my interests. All of these things make it a great job. Read More »
Having meetings over the phone is something that remote workers do all of the time. However, despite the frequency of these meetings, I see a lot of people who don’t follow basic phone meeting etiquette. Here are a few tips: Read More »
Not everyone that we need to work with wants to have to learn a new tool in order to collaborate with us online. Sometimes simple “old school” tools, like IRC and mailing lists, can work just as well as, if not better than, the new tools. Read More »
Since my post last week talked about how to manage your boss while working remotely, I thought that it was only fair to provide managers with some tips for managing those employees in other locations — something that I’m about to start doing again. Read More »
One of the biggest challenges of corporate web working is being able to demonstrate that you are at least as productive while working at home or in a remote office as you would be sitting in a cubicle where everyone can see you at work. Read More »
I spent last week at a conference in San Francisco with many of my colleagues and community members from around the world, but the giant volcanic ash cloud over Europe put a damper on the final day of the conference. Read More »
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