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December 8, 2009 Blogging

The One Minute Commute is more than a blog. It’s also a great book looking for a publisher. I’ve been building traffic, doing some great interviews, and talking to amazing experts about telework. This blog has had good success in all aspects but one: comments. I’ve been getting good feedback from Twitter, Facebook, and email, [...]

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How To Land Interviews With Famous People

October 20, 2009 The One Minute Commute

I interviewed over 60 famous and fabulous people for The One Minute Commute. They ranged from individual contributors to best selling authors and luminaries in their fields. I’m not famous, I didn’t have a big-time publisher, and I didn’t know a single one of my interview subjects ahead of time, but my success rate for [...]

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4 Reasons Your Distributed Team Should Switch From IM to IRC

October 1, 2009 Good Communication

1. IRC is inclusive, IM is exclusive IRC (Internet Relay Chat) works like an IM chat with your whole team. Everyone can see what you type instead of just one person. You can ask a question even if you don’t know who to ask. It brings the whole team together and reduces private conversations; the [...]

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Zack In CIO Magazine

September 10, 2009 Good Communication

CIO Magazine just posted a wonderful article, Remote Public Speaking The Right Way. As a bonus it features advice from me about making every remote presentation a success. I had a great time talking about remote presenting with Maryfran. Go check it out!

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The Book I Wish I Had Seven Years Ago

July 31, 2009 Remote Teams

I worked remotely for seven years before I started writing The One Minute Commute. When I started working remotely, I did some things right, but I did a lot of them wrong. It took time to learn what was important and what wasn’t. I wish I had this book seven years ago. During my time [...]

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