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14 Best Google Doc Tricks « WeirdGuy
Tips and tricks for working more effectively with Google Docs
A List Apart: Articles: Working From Home: The Readers Respond
Tips from ALA readers on working from home--how to manage your time, be productive, and find balance. Telecommuting is very individual. I'd go insane if I had a manager who trusted me so little that I had to send HOURLY progress reports, but clearly it works for the person who submitted that idea.
The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed
Interview with Stewart Mader on how wikis can be used in higher ed for teaching, research, and administration. He discusses issues of "ownership" of content and how using a wiki can make assessment easier.
Working from home « Design for Learning
Natalie Kilkenny writes about how much more productive she is as a telecommuter than working in a cube farm and answers the question "How do they know that you're working when they can't see you?"
Half an Hour: Finding Time
Stephen Downes, on finding the time to write online by focusing on using content from a closed environment and bringing it into the open.
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The whole point isn't to *add* online writing on top of everything else you do. Nobody has time for that.
Rather, what you want to be thinking of doing is to gradually migrate to writing online *instead* of writing for those other purposes.
That doesn't mean you become a blog writer and nothing else. Rather, what you'll find is that writing for the website makes writing for all those other things a lot easier. -
The idea is to take the stuff you do for private audiences and to present it (as much as you can) to public audiences.
Declutter your office or you will get fat | Janet Clarey
Discussion of decluttering physical and virtual spaces to avoid feeling buried and lost and improve productivity. You need a vision of what you want, then you can get rid of the physical/virtual/mental clutter that doesn't help you reach that goal.
Lifehacker Code: Texter (Windows)
Lifehacker app for text replacement. Use for common phrases like your sig line
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness
Great visual showing how much simpler collaborating on documents with a wiki is than emailing attachments back and forth. Based on a report of collaboration within the US intelligence community (hence the logo for the wiki side of the table).
Question your work - (37signals)
8 questions to ask yourself while working on projects, including "Why are we doing this?" and "Is this actually useful?"
Top 10 Gmail tips and hacks - Download Squad
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Just like it says--tips and hacks for Gmail. Several of these were new to me.
- christyinsdesign on 2007-07-28
Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 15 Productive Uses for a Wiki «
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Ideas to use wikis to get and stay organized and generally be more productive. Some of these are for more personal or individual use (like the to-do list) and some are more geared towards groups (like event planning).
- christyinsdesign on 2007-07-14
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