WWD Coffee Break – GSA Leadership, Business Apps & Invoicing

Send the Bureaucrats Home – As we’ve pointed out before, the federal government is home to some of the most ambitious telework programs around. Now comes the news that Lurita Doan, current administrator of the General Services Administration (the folks in charge of running buildings and offices for the government, among other things) has set a goal of having 50% of her staff telecommuting by 2010 (up from the current 10%).

This isn’t a complete radical decentralization of the office, as the government counts you as a teleworker if you spend 1 or more days per week offsite. But it is certainly a big step in the direction of validating what many web workers already know: that there are many, many jobs that need not be tied to a traditional office setting.

One-Stop Website ShoppingGoodBarry is trying to make things easy for small businesses online by combining all sorts of things into a single tool: content management for your site, basic CRM, email marketing, tracking, and online store management. Seems like this will be easier for many people than dealing with a whole handful of different sites and tools. They’ve also got reseller and white-label programs for designers who want to start out with the GoodBarry platform when putting together solutions for their own clients.

Piggyback InvoicingSimply Invoices is not a general-purpose online invoicing solution. Rather, it’s invoicing for people who already use Basecamp to track clients and time. Customize your invoice templates, pick a project and start and end dates, and you get downloadable PDF invoices as well as online invoice management.

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