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Geeks in Boston » Working from Home: Why It Sucks
I don't know how people work from home. I find it infinitely distracting and I agree with the author that the lack of real time, face to face feedback is down right depressing and demotivating.
Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists | Top Stories | News.com.au
I must be an anomaly, I love open plans better than cubes or offices. I like the energy and collaboration. I often sneak away from the office to go work in a coffee shop. I do think that with open plans you need to have "quiet spaces" shared offices for private phone calls and stuff.
Sure, Change Jobs! - Another guy named Mike
This post brought up several things I've been thinking about. I think that telle-working and remote connectivity have turned us into 18 hr a day work-a-holics. I think whether your a programmer or any professional knowledge worker we're all at risk of burnout and we have to know how to deal with it. Lastly that while this guy didn't join the Marines during the recession that we're in, I've noticed a lot more recruiting and advertising efforts by the military lately, they have to realize that this is a peak time to recruit.
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - O'Reilly Radar
1 Work on something that matters to you more than money.
2 Create more value than you create.
3 Take the long view.
How we use IRC at Last.fm | Richard Jones, Esq.
IRC is such an underused tool. I've often compared Twitter to the modern day IRC. This, of course, is not a perfect analogy but it works. I wish more companies would use IRC, chat only works so well and tools like Yammer (corp twitter) also have their own limitations.
12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today | Zen Habits
The traditional office work environment and tools are still around, but at a very rapid pace, they’re being supplanted by newer and better tools, newer and better ways of working. The old rules are being broken, and new ones are emerging.
You could call this the Workplace of the Future, as not all businesses have adopted these models, and it will be a few years before these new rules are the norm. But for many people (myself included), this is the Workplace of Today — there’s no need to wait for new technologies or tools, because they’re already here.
David Seah - The Printable CEO
a cool printable talsk list. i think i'll tweak it for my moleskine and change the items based on work tasks
Why Gen Y Is Going to Change the Web - ReadWriteWeb
Again with the same old story. The real change is going to be Gen Y realizing they have to work to pay off the mountain of debt they've created.
gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": applying "creativity" to your professional life etc.
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People ask me what I do for fun, or what I do when I'm not at work. It's hard for them to understand that this is what I do. Social media is fun for me. I enjoy studying the affects the Web has on business and society. I like learning. Watching TV after work is not my idea of relaxing. Especially now that the writers strike has forced all the channells into hours of reality shows <uck>
If you want to do what you love for a living read the full post.
- tacanderson on 2008-01-10
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It's about taking one's creativity and learning how to harness it and apply it to anything one undertakes (including careers/business), despite the fact that the business world tends to kill creativity; in other words, don't focus on life... focus on professional life. As a member of the demographic you're aiming for [i.e. people my age], I can tell you that we're more interested in that; it's easy to be creative on our own time. At work, not so much.
Why Wikis Are Conquering The Enterprise
- This is excellent. All the data you would need to sell wiki's in your organization. - tacanderson on 2006-10-27
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Unlikely as it may seem, wikis are now being adopted by enterprises large
and small more quickly than celebrities adopt African orphans.
So much so that Gartner analyst Kathy Harris predicted that by 2009, 50
percent of U.S. companies will be using wikis.
That helps explain why vendors large and small are lining up to provide
enterprises with enterprise-ready wiki solutions.
Large outfits. such as IBM (Quote<!--, <A HREF="http://www.internetnews.com/stocks/quotes/chart.php/IBM/chart">Chart</A>-->) and Microsoft (Quote<!--, <A HREF="http://www.internetnews.com/stocks/quotes/chart.php/MSFT/chart">Chart</A>-->) , are wrapping wiki functionality into their real-time
collaboration tools, respectively Lotus Sametime and Sharepoint Server.
Smaller vendors like Jotspot, Socialtext, CustomerVision and Klir Technologies are among the vendors offering stand-alone wiki solutions.
Rather than being driven by senior management, however, adoption is coming
mainly from project managers and department-level executives.
"In almost every big corporation, some group is already using a wiki," said
Andrew McAfee, associate professor of technology and operations management
at the Harvard Business School.
One reason is that wikis hold the promise of helping companies stimulate
more innovation by their employees.
That's important: 80 percent of CEOs see collaboration as being critical to
growth, according to a survey conducted by IBM last March. -
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nlikely as it may seem, wikis are now being adopted by enterprises larg
e
and small more quickly than celebrities adopt African orphans.
So much so that Gartner analyst Kathy Harris predicted that by 2009, 50
percent of U.S. companies will be using wikis.
That helps explain why vendors large and small are lining up to provide
enterprises with enterprise-ready wiki solutions.
Large outfits. such as IBM (
Quote<!--, <A HREF="http://www.internetnews.com/stocks/quotes/chart.php/IBM/chart">Chart</A>-->
) and Microsoft (
Quote<!--, <A HREF="http://www.internetnews.com/stocks/quotes/chart.php/MSFT/chart">Chart</A>-->
) , are wrapping wiki functionality into their real-time
collaboration tools, respectively Lotus Sametime and Sharepoint Server.
Smaller vendors like Jotspot, Socialtext,
CustomerVision
and Klir Technologies are among the vendors offering stand-alone wiki solutions.
Rather than being driven by senior management, however, adoption is coming
mainly from project managers and department-level executives.
"In almost every big corporation, some group is already using a wiki," said
Andrew McAfee, associate professor of technology and operations management
at the Harvard Business School.
One reason is that wikis hold the promise of helping companies stimulate
more innovation by their employees.
That's important: 80 percent of CEOs see collaboration as being critical to
growth, according to a survey conducted by IBM last March.
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