Expert: Telecommuting growing, but it’s no panacea for society’s ills Finance and Commerce - Apr 27, 2009 by Scott Carlson Staff Writer Telecommuting – which once held the promise of eliminating traffic jams, smog and over-reliance on foreign oil – is unlikely … Survey: Commitment to Alternative Workplace Strategies is Being … PR Newswire (press release) [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
It’s a Virtual World
Booz Allen has a tremendously informative website called Strategy+Business, and a weekly newsletter. A recent article describes how companies are leaving the physical world behind to cut costs, improve communication, and find new ways to collaborate. The author describes a virtual meeting with Kearney from IBM, conducted in Second Life. Kearney was in Arizona, and [...]
Work At Home Privacy
To be really efficient working at home you need dedicated space. That isn’t always possible if you have a growing family. But there’s a company in the UK that has an interesting solution: a pod for the back yard. I like the tidy concentrated togetherness of it, although heating, ventilation and air condition could be [...]
12 Novel Ways to Make Money In Tough Times
By allowing people to telecommute and work from home, technology and telecommunications have allowed consumers to become producers. Writers, musicians, photographers are creating, participating, and contributing. That’s what YouTube, Flickr, and millions of blogs are all about. Now the economic recession is adding a personal urgency to for cash-strapped ordinary consumers. People are finding novel [...]
Earth Day Thank Yous
Well Earth Day is over and hopefully it inspired a few more people to pay attention to the condition of this fragile ball we call home. We want to send a big thanks to the following bloggers who helped publicize our special Earth Day free chapter download of Undress For Success—The Naked Truth About Making [...]
