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Keeping Your Teleworkers Secure

February 16, 2010 Guest Post

Today we have a sponsored post from Brian Brian Lapidus the Chief Operating Officer of Kroll Fraud Solutions. Many companies worry about telecommuter security and Brian is here to share some tips for keeping your telecommuters secure. Take it away Brian!
Telecommuting, whether full-time or part-time, is becoming increasingly popular in the United States. [...]

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Shoptalk: A New Tool That Helps You Stay Close With Your Team

January 26, 2010 Guest Post

Today we have a guest post from David Shoemaker. He’s here to tell us about his company’s new tool ShopTalk. Basically it’s like a group instance message in your browser, only better. We also have 100 free passes to give away. I’ll let David explain it.

My daily commute involves the freeway. [...]

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10 Telecommuting Questions with Wayne Turmel

November 10, 2009 10 Questions

My first thought after finishing Wayne Turmel’s Remote Working: Turning “Them” Into “Us” was I should’ve written that. Wayne tackled the tough issue of building relationships on remote teams with a deep understanding of the problem and straightforward advice. There’s a lot more I could tell you about Wayne, but I’ll let him [...]

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How to Hire Effective Workshifters: 7 Signs and How to Evaluate Them

October 27, 2009 Guest Post

Hiring teleworkers is a stressful experience. Work shifting takes a specific set of skills that are difficult to evaluate in an interview. Even worse, it takes a lot of time and money to find out that you hired the wrong person.
That’s why I created a system for evaluating which candidates make good teleworkers. [...]

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Small Distractions Keep You Focused

October 23, 2009 Conference Calls

Justin Levy over at Work Shifting just posted a guest post from me, Small Distractions Keep You Focused. It shows you how little things can help you stay focused during long conference calls. I’ve followed Work Shifting since they started and I know my article is in good company.
Check it out.
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10 Telecommuting Questions with Sylvia Dahlby

October 21, 2009 10 Questions

The minute I read Sylvia Dahlby’s amazing and insightful comment on Could telecommuting be a career mistake? I wanted to hear more of her thoughts as a teleworker. I found @SylvieDahl on Twitter and invited her to answer 10 questions about telecommuting.
1. Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you [...]

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Stop Trying To Hold Back The Ocean

October 12, 2009 Guest Post

Lucy Nixon at Corporate Eye just published a guest post from me about using the social media experts that are already in your company to get your message out there called Stop Trying To Hold Back The Ocean.
Every company should be doing this.

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Common Web Presentation Mistakes Published at iMedia Connection

October 1, 2009 Good Communication

I’ve just published a new article at iMedia Connection: The 3 Most Common Mistakes of Web Presentations. Check it out to see if you’re making any of these mistakes in your web presentations.
And thanks to the great guys from iMedia Connection. If you want to up your marketing IQ go check them [...]

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