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Useful advanced searches for Remember the Milk (to do list), all of which can be saved as Smart Lists

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Easy tool for scheduling meetings across time zones. Set it up with the locations you commonly use and bookmark your specific URL.

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Type a time and it starts a timer in your browser window. Useful for showing break times in online synchronous training. You can bookmark a specific URL for a time if you regularly use the same length of time.

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Summary of findings from a number of studies showing increases in productivity due to telecommuting. Increases in productivity range from 15% to 50%.

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Free tool to strip formatting when copying and pasting text, without having to go through Notepad first

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Tips and tricks for working more effectively with Google Docs

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Keyboard shortcuts for Firefox

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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.

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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.

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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?"

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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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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.

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Lifehacker app for text replacement. Use for common phrases like your sig line

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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).

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8 questions to ask yourself while working on projects, including "Why are we doing this?" and "Is this actually useful?"

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gmail productivity tools

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