Month: June 2010
Productive Working Hours: What Are Your Best Work Times?
Although most offices operate on 9 to 5 (or 8 to 6) working hours, not all workers work best on this timetable. Night owl workers prefer to burn the midnight oil, working late into the night when there are no distracting coworkers and their brain is at its sharpest. I,Read More
Buzzword Bingo
Have you heard of Buzzword Bingo? The idea is that you have a little fun during a dull meeting by using bingo cards filled with vague, commonly-used office terminology. The first one to connect 5 buzzwords in a row wins. I doubt anyone has ever truly played this game (andRead More
Google Voice: How it Can Change How You Use the Phone
Google announced yesterday that Google Voice is now open to everyone with a U.S. telephone number. Until now, you had to get an invite from someone who was invited to use it. What is it? It’s a nifty Internet phone service that works with your existing phones and gives prettyRead More
Where Do You Work Best?
Some people need absolute, morgue-like silence to get real work done. Others are content to type away amidst chaos like chattering coworkers or screaming kids. As a work-at-home freelancer, I love being able to vary my work environment. It was tough when I had roommates who watched TV in myRead More
Getting Down to Goalsetting: The Freelancer’s Bucket List
Having goals is an automatic tendency for everyone – and the goals will be wide in range and scope. What might be something you find not really worthy of being pursued another may envision as an ultimate achievement. It is the achieving them that is the challenging part – althoughRead More
The Value of Workmates: Do You Need a Work Buddy?
I came across this interesting article a few days back discussing how to get more done with a work buddy and how he or she can help you stay on track. I agree with most of the points mentioned, especially the one about collaboration. I have found that when IRead More
How to Improve Productivity: 6 Lessons from Great Software
Well-written software applications are fast, powerful and flexible: They are remarkably disciplined, following a rigid set of self-imposed rules. Their meticulous organization allows them to keep track of millions of bits of information, and their multitasking ability is unmatched. As air breathing, flesh-and-blood work processors, we could learn quite aRead More