How Do You Work?

There are a number of downsides associated with freelancing, which is why I’ve made the decision to go back to a full-time corporate job as a community manager. I’ll still be a web worker, but I’ll be doing it as a full-time employee. Read More »

When was the last time you backed up all of that precious data you carry around on your laptop or have stored away on the desktop? What if your house or office burned down — would your backups go up in flames, too? Read More »

 
 

Last Summer, I outlined the philosophy of “Noded” working (a system of forming distributed teams for particular types of projects). A few months later, Jaan Orvet, one of the authors of the Noded principles, spoke at the inaugural HDLive conference in the UK. Read More »

What if I told you that it was possible to use a magic machine at home that could make anything…and that maybe you could use it to conjure up “things” to sell as part of your job? Read More »

Web workers are a busy group, and it can be too easy to get buried in our work while rarely surfacing to keep up with the latest news, trends and other information that we should be learning. Read More »

The early morning hours are a great time to do projects that require uninterrupted effort. But I find that it’s way too easy to get sidetracked. I’m tempted to sit down at the computer first thing in the morning to “check my email.” Read More »

Here I go again, writing about organization. This time, though, it’s not because I’ve found a great new app to help me. That’s my inbox, aka my “to-be-dealt-with” pile. And there are two more like it. If only there were an app that could help me! Read More »

More Must Reads

Do What Works for You

Lately, I’ve been hearing too many people talk about what people must do. If you start a blog, you must post three or four times every week. Your company must engage in conversations on . Everyone must have a newsletter. Read More »

8 Firefox Add-ons I Can’t Do Without

When I upgraded from Firefox 3.5.7 to 3.6 the other day, I discovered that a few of the add-ons that weren’t yet compatible were important to me. In fact, they had become such an integral part of my daily workflow that I was significantly slowed down… Read More »

The Joy and Pain of Taking Risks

Very few things in life come without any risk, and most of the really interesting things have a proportionally high risk associated with them. Being a web worker, for example, comes with significant risk, whether you are on your own as a freelancer, or working in a corporate… Read More »

Yawn… Don’t Let Boring Work Get You Down

We’ve all experienced times of boredom in our work. Maybe you’ve been doing the same work for too long, whether it’s a corporate job or just the same types of client projects over a long period of time. Whether you are a freelancer working on client… Read More »

When You Bite Off More Than You Can Chew

One of the things I love about being a web worker is the variety of projects I get to work on. Things never get boring around here because of that. Every now and then, an opportunity arises that’s a little outside my usual scope, and sometimes… Read More »

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