I’ve recently been thinking about how Google Voice, Google Wave and Google Buzz joining the full Google Apps lineup would make it a budget-friendly teleworking platform. Organizations can now literally purchase themselves a “telework in a box” solution — a complete office productivity software, communications and collaboration package — with little or no requirement for support from their own technical staff.
Nozbe, the online Getting Things Done (GTD)-based project management tool, announced integration with Evernote last week. This is yet another worthy third-party integration where a service benefits from the power and flexibility Evernote offers. If you haven’t used Evernote yet, I recommend you try it out because it is one of the best note-taking applications on the market.
I recently wrote about TaskPaper coming to the iPhone and my appreciation of simple and easy to use task lists. Another option for people who just need a simple, easy-to-use to-do list is YouDo, an iPhone and iPod touch app.
Zoho recently launched an update to Zoho Show, its online presentations tool and Microsoft PowerPoint competitor. This new update ups the game against SlideRocket, Google Docs, Acrobat.com Presentations (part of Acrobat.com, covered here), and the soon-to-launch Microsoft PowerPoint Web App by adding thirty slide transitions, and improved import and export of PowerPoint presentations (including support for its slide transitions).
The bulk of my research happens online, so I am always on the lookout for tools that will help me better capture, catalog and retrieve data. Browser bookmarks left my online research workflow some time ago when I began to use Delicious, with occasional forays into using Xmarks. Lately, I’ve depended on Evernote’s web clipping tools. After writing about the Cliqset’s integration with Evernote, iCyte came to my attention. It’s a new social bookmarking tool that enables you to capture Cytes (web pages) for later reference.
Google on Friday announced that its had launched the Google Wave Extensions Gallery; you can now click on “Extensions” in Wave’s navigation pane to access it. It’s been added to provide users with an easier way to discover useful extensions and gadgets that have been vetted through a quality assurance and approval process.
Microsoft SharePoint is an accepted enterprise standard for online collaboration, but unfortunately many organizations don’t use it to its fullest potential. If you’re preparing a telework pilot program, it’s important to ensure that your SharePoint implementation is set up and optimized to support and assist your teleowkers. Here are some tips.
After you put your first corporate telework program in place, you’ll find that the actions and inactions of management, workers staying in the office, and the teleworkers themselves all have an impact on the success of the program. Managing these stakeholders and the politics they bring into play is integral to the success of teleworking in your organization.
Spreadsheets are especially useful for geographically dispersed project teams looking to centralize project data like issues tracking, requirements gathering, action items, scheduling and other data capture tasks. Web-based spreadsheets can put all these data intensive tasks online, where project teams can collaborate on the information in a secure environment.
When a new Mac user asks my advice about which task management/to-do list app to choose, I usually steer them towards TaskPaper, especially if they’re looking for a a simple, easy-to use app (see Imran’s review here). So I was happy to hear that Hog Bay Software had released TaskPaper on the iPhone, with the same usability and simplicity I enjoy in the Mac version.
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