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By: The Workplace of the Future « PR Perspective

The Workplace of the Future « PR Perspective — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:58:09 +0000

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Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:31:09 +0000

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By: John

John — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:02:59 +0000

Some of us web workers just work more efficiently when left alone at home, where our workspace is hopefully bigger than a cubicle and there aren’t any office-type distractions. We can just focus on getting things done.

By: Web Worker Daily: 14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers « Clearing My Head

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:50:50 +0000

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By: nychase» Blog Archive » Lessons from Seasoned Web Workers

nychase» Blog Archive » Lessons from Seasoned Web Workers — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:22:59 +0000

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By: Anthony Russo

Anthony Russo — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:31:07 +0000

As mentioned above, there are alternatives to “the big 3″ GoToMeeting, WebEx, Adobe Connect. A hosted webconferencing provider is good for when you are looking to have no maintenance and really have a company that will offer full training and support for you every step of the way. At a number of packages starting under $100 dollars, it really is the best way to go for most SMB.

Take a look at http://www.ganconference.com for more information

Anthony

By: Web Conferencing Appliance

Web Conferencing Appliance — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:23:13 +0000

One alternative to GotoMeeting is RHUB (http://www.rhubcom.com) web conferencing appliance. With less than $1,000, you can own your own web conferencing together with remote support, remote access and seminar applications, which make it perfect for web workers. No IT maintanance is needed. It works just like your Linksys router. You can customize it to what you need. For example, instead of directing your attendees to the GotoMeeting website at the end of a meeting, the appliance can direct the attendees to your own web page. Values like this is not available from service providers.

Best of all, it is cost saving. RHUB TurboMeeting-200 can be well paid back in between 3 and 5 motnhs compared to monthly subscription.

Other on-premise solutions you may consider are Bomgar for remote support and Linktivity for web conferencing. Bomgar costs about 10 times of RHUB appliance and only work for remote support. If you have no problem to set up software, Linktivty can be a choice.

If you look for open source solutions, VNC and Dimdim can be considered.

By: Marcin Grodzicki

Marcin Grodzicki — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:26:03 +0000

I would add one thing: Experiment. HR departments in large corporations could really change things for the better if they spent some time experimenting with different forms of working conditions. Combine that with new technology, and you could be really ahead of competition cost-wise (even if only that).

By: 14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers « Th’eternal Promise

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:02:15 +0000

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By: wworker & TP user

wworker & TP user — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:18:18 +0000

I am a seasoned web worker and a telepresence user. To all those web workers out there, have you ever been in a web based meeting and rolled your eyes after a ridiculous comment or heard a deafening silence after making a statement? Telepresence takes these things out of play. It is the physical gestures, all the way down to pupil dialation that telepresence brings to the “table”. If you haven’t done it then you don’t know the difference. I will say it’s not for everyone, but if you have executive road warriors that you pay an insane amount of money to sit on airplanes for half their day, you can see the ROI in a flash. It’s all about the experience.

By: A long-time reader

A long-time reader — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:53:09 +0000

You should explore and tell the story about what GE is up to:

http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=126

more details here:

http://chucksblog.typepad.com/a_journey_in_social_media/2008/07/a-humbling-expe.html

- they’ve been hitting a lot of the points in the article you make for years now.

By: James Taylor

James Taylor — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:33:22 +0000

This is a great post for corporate leaders looking to gain competitive advantage through the world of “distributed work and remote collaboration.” I hope that enlightened leaders in the corporate world will take these tips as more fuel for a growing movement that not only has macro benefits like reducing pollution, for example, but also as means of furthering individual happiness. We no longer have to compartmentalize our work life into time frames like 9-5 and offices or cubicles, while we put important aspects of our home and social lives on hold. Legions of webworkers across the planet are proving that productivity has little to do with punching a clock or the appearance of being busy. Quality work comes from people who are in a happy space, physically, emotionally and mentally… corporate leaders take note, especially if your office is not conducive to these elements.

By: Syed

Syed — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:59:21 +0000

Our software development and hosting support team is spread across three continents and we have used free tools to do our work. We use the following free tools to accomplish our job:

1. PHPBB – Forums for project tracking, issue tracking and discussions (even with our clients)
2. Logmein – To remotely login to our machines from any where.
3. Skype – For voice calls
4. MS Shared View – For presentations to clients
5. Time Tracker from Microsoft (available as a part of .NET starter kit)
6. Attendance System – Custom built with less than one week of effort.
7. Freemind – Mind mapping Management tool for tracking all our activities at a management level.

We have developed a culture where every employee logs time in and time out if they are working. They also provide updates on the forum on a daily basis on the tasks that they work on.

I fully agree 100% on the 14 tips provided above and feel that any corporation can save tonnes of money following these guidelines.

By: 14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers - GigaOM

14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers - GigaOM — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:04:12 +0000

[...] Edit Staff, Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 7:04 AM PT As travel costs continue to rise, big corporations are looking for alternate ways to get their employees in front of one another, including investing big bucks in things like teleconferencing systems. But while the giants are just waking up to this new world of distributed and remote work, web workers everywhere have already spent years perfecting it. And Web Worker Daily has consolidated the knowledge gleaned from those years into a 14-point prescriptio…. [...]