An online notebook
I was working once for a pretty big organisation, who wanted to start a blog. This was about ten years ago, so for a lot of people blogging was kind of new. Despite the fact that I was working there, and had been blogging for a while, and actually had a bit of a reputation … Keep reading
Hipchat looks a neat tool for those teams with remote workers in particular. Group chat is a fantastic tool for a distributed team because of its persistence. You keep your chat window open all the time, dropping in and out when required. It reminds you that you’re part of a team and that there are … Keep reading
A key part of working smarter is the idea of flexible or remote working. One neat way of describing it is that work isn’t a place you go to, it’s what you do. There’s a lot of misunderstanding though about this concept, with it often being seen as a perk for an individual employee, say, rather … Keep reading
Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Your wiki is a dump Mixing the unconference format into a traditional conference Why Companies Fail To Engage Today’s Workforce: The Overwhelmed Employee The Responsive Organization Leanership: a new way of work Did you know that WorkSmart has a Pinterest board … Keep reading
So I posed a fair few questions in my last post about email. How about some solutions? Here’s one – inbox zero. Inbox zero is… what? A methodology? A process? A mindset? Who knows. What we do know is that it is the brainchild of Merlin Mann, a productivity expert from the US. Here’s the … Keep reading