Getting Things Done, Squared – If you’re a corporate trainer with a spare $3,495 laying around, you can become a certified and licensed Getting Things DoneĀ® trainer thanks to this course, offered by Linkage, Inc. in conjunction with the David Allen Company. The rest of us will have to make do with other alternatives.
Small Businesses Don’t Even Know About Online Office Apps – So says market research firm AMI (PDF press release here). While we’re discussing the relative merits of ThinkFree, Zoho, and Google Docs, they say 50% of their survey sample didn’t even know there was an alternative to Microsoft Office. Their conclusion: “To accelerate customer adoption, online vendors must boost awareness, promote more effectively the benefits of online personal productivity suites, entice collaboration users to use online document creation tools, and assure that their solutions will be compatible with Microsoft Office.” Smells like a web worker opportunity to me.
Ready to be Replaced by a Giant Rabbit? – Stop worrying about India and China; Silicon.com frets that Second Life may be outsourcing’s next big frontier.
Another Advantage to Telecommuting – City of Seattle employees might find themselves forbidden from making microwave popcorn at work. It seems that it’s been setting off the smoke alarms, requiring the authorities to call the Fire Department and evacuate 400 people at a time. When that happens around here, I just open a window.
Check Your W2SAT Score – That’s “Web 2.0 Startup Aptitude Test,” courtesy of Andrew Chen. Testing your familiarity with the 15 skills he lists here will give you a quick reality check on your readiness to launch the next big thing on the internet.
Or You Could Stay Home and Save the Gas, Too – Time magazine notices that an increasing number of employees prefer to work in a “green” workplace. Personally, I find it a lot easier to go green around the home office than to push a mega-corporation to stop requiring forms in triplicate. Fun fact to justify telecommuting: “congestion created by people getting to and from work costs U.S. employers 3.7 billion hours of lost productivity a year, which adds up to $63.1 billion in wasted time and fuel every year.”
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