Telecommuting is one of the fastest growing ways to work from home. Both the United States and Canadian governments are encouraging telecommuting as a way to give workers more control over their working lives, reduce traffic, and reduce pollution. While you can just set up a home office and start working from home, there are…
The Internet was designed as a collaboration tool and we've come a long way since the first website was launched. E-mail has also always been a tool for collaboration, but inboxes are so cluttered with spam and other messages that many pundits are even claiming e-mail's days are numbered. How, then, can you collaborate with…
Blogging is not just for hobbyists and online journal writers anymore. Businesses large and small are taking advantage of this simple, convenient, and compact communications tool. Business blogs can be used within your firewall to help virtual teams collaborate or to keep employees up to date on company announcements. On the public Internet your business…
As the American election approaches, I think political blogs are going to be quite influential. We've already seen how they are a force in the Democratic primary. As more politically active bloggers report, passionately, on their politics, the real battle is going to not be in the blogsphere, but the “Googlesphere”. Who can get their…
A newspaper in Spokane, WA is successfully selling ads on it's blog and recruiting local bloggers (by posting a bio and link to their blog). This could be start of newspapers and other traditional media using blogs to gain online readers. Rick E. Bruner's Business Blog Consulting: Poynter: Newspaper Blogs and Making Money
Although I signed up to view the BlogOn 2004 webcasts, I never did. I have been tracking the posts from the BlogOn blog, though. This morning both eWeek and C|Net had articles on BlogOn. The big story is that businesses are blogging. Microsoft has the very successful Channel 9 and most every new software company…
I started to post about one part of today's updates, but on reading the whole page I think there's too much to focus on one component. Today's news covers: Making the business case to telework and technology investments Satelite broadband “Telework malaise”…I think that can be summed up with “some folks still don't get it”…
I've used Skype only once I think. The concept is good, the problem is that Skype becomes yet another IM-like tool. I feel that I can keep only so many apps like this running on my machine at one time. I have three apps like this running right now :Convoq ASAP, Chatango, and Miranda (for…
Interesting stats here showing the popularity of blogging world-wide. The only (small) flaw in the logic is Blogspot might be considered American. And while the company is American, non-Americans do use it. Like I said, small flaw. The important point here is the power of blogging in freedom of information and democracy. Since it is…
This seems so much like Prohibition that it isn't even funny. P2P networks are a tool. A tool that, granted, is being used for some not good things. Trying to ban something like this just won't work. Groove is a P2P network. One could shuttle all kinds of information, completely encrypted, to a group of…