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Comment on What’s with the Wiring? by money

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Comment on What’s with the Wiring? by The Home Worker’s IT (and other) Support is in the Cloud « UK Web Focus

Mon, 20 May 2013 08:31:13 +0000

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Mon, 20 May 2013 08:31:07 +0000

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Comment on Tooling Up by mariekeguy

mariekeguy — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:37:33 +0000

Thanks Ed. I’ve used GoToWebinar and GoToMeeting before but Webex seemed a little different – maybe slightly simpler. Here’s a comparison. I’ll write a more detailed review some time soon.

I’ve already started using Toggl and it works great, the biggest problem is the user (me!). I keep forgetting to turn it on and off, luckily you can go in and edit it later!

OKFN are an organically growing organisation and seem to be expanding staff wise. This has resulted in a review of quite a lot of the tools they use. Naturally most of the tools are cloud based and they seem to be really up for trying new stuff out – so will take a look at Jolio. Any other suggestions are very welcome!

My biggest worry at the moment is my broadband – it’s can be quite temperamental, and changes with the weather (literally!). Quite a few of these new tools will work when you’re offline…but not all. I’ll have to see how things go!

Anyway thanks again for the comments! Always good to hear from a remote working expert!

Comment on Tooling Up by Ed Bremner

Ed Bremner — Sat, 11 May 2013 22:20:11 +0000

Good new selection of toys to look at there! I have played with quite a few of them, including Webex (GoToWebinar and GoToMeeting) at Plymouth, but I hadn’t come across Toggl and Trello.

Time-reporting is always a complete nightmare for us remote workers and I have used all sorts of software in the past to try and keep on top of how much time I have spent on each project. Some of these were complex and full PIM replacements and just too much for the simple task of time reporting. Others were simple, but without basic functionalities like full reports with time per project. For one reason or another, they were all a little frustrating, so I am really interested to hear how you get on with Toggl. It looks like a brilliant bit of software and I look forwards to trying it out.

Trello looks good too, but looks like something that would work best in conjunction with others, so it is unlikely I will be trying it in near future, but again I really look forwards to hearing how you get on with it.

It looks like you are getting to grips with lots of cloud based software at the OKF…which makes me wonder whether you had tried using ‘jolios’. Works really well on an old laptop and is a nice way to integrate a collection of cloud-programs.

Good luck with the OKF work and keep the reports coming.

eib

Comment on The Work From Home Disadvantage by Kimberly Danner (@LittleMeilee)

Kimberly Danner (@LittleMeilee) — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:18:10 +0000

I also published an article about this topic in depth about increasing productivty and how bad posture, lack of sleep.. etc. can affect the workspace. Check out the article here at: http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/EP10770781.pdf

Comment on The Work From Home Disadvantage by Kimberly Danner (@LittleMeilee)

Kimberly Danner (@LittleMeilee) — Thu, 02 May 2013 12:14:13 +0000

I work from home as well (for about a year now) and have tried adopting different strategies to be more productive. It is frustrating when colleagues of mine express how jealous they are I can stay home. The best way I can summarize how I feel from working at home is, “I’ve turned my sanctuary into my job and it is too easy for me to get up and work continuously in the next room since it’s so close…”

This is a fantastic graphic, great work! Recently I have been working on these graphics as well. Since I also work from home, I would like to chat with you about collaborating on another article/infographic. Feel free to contact me at kimberlydanner@outlook.com
And again, fantastic job!