The last six months since my layoff has been a flurry of freelance work especially article writing. Moving from the glacial drift speed of a federal government contract back to freelance writing meant I had to get organized quickly. It was back to living by my ideas again.
One of the first things I did was get reorganized quickly and came to rely on the following apps:
I was reminded recently about how much the successful management of remote writing projects relies on common sense, communications, and teamwork. Looking back over previous part-time remote projects I’ve worked on the lack of one of those elements usually made for a lot more difficult of a project.
However, I’m the first to say that communications are a two way street between the remote writer and the mother ship.
The final phase of the deployment is the Product Innovation Phase where SharePoint My Sites and social computing become tools driving product innovation inside a company. These tools help further employee engagement and put crowd-sourcing sessions online across a company’s secure network to engage marketing, sales, and internal product experts to brainstorm new products, services, and ideas to increase customer satisfaction.
My last official day at my day job is September 14th so it seems time for another edition of Random And Recent Projects. Here are my random and recent projects from the last few weeks:
This isn’t my first layoff so I am not letting myself grow complacent and in fact I am looking forward to what the future holds.
In a new series of articles, I am going to explain a Social Computing Deployment Process. As the roll out of SharePoint My Sites and social computing tools progresses, a certain maturity needs to happen for the business and end user community to realize the benefits of social computing within the enterprise. This Social Computing Deployment Process includes the following phases:
In this article, I will walk you through a potential rollout phase for moving an organization to a more social SharePoint.
My latest post is now online over on Tablets in the Enterprise.
Tablets are gaining a strong reputation as sales tools across multiple industries, which is getting the attention of sales teams who want their company to outfit them with tablets. Sales teams are ideal candidates for tablets, but organizations need to build them out as a sales productivity tool
via Seven tips for outfitting your sales team with tablets | TechRepublic.
I wrote another post for LifeHack.org:
Back in the day, we all reviewed and edited documents with a red pen, highlighter, and sticky notes. Then came track changes and comments in MS Word or maybe you used the Review tools in Adobe Acrobat to annotate comments and edits on a PDF while sitting at your PC or Mac. Now we can use an iPad and iAnnotate PDF, a powerful alternative to GoodReader. The document reviewing process has gone from paper to PC and now to iPad without missing a beat.
My Thyroid — actually the subsequent Thyroidectomy I had in October 2010 — has been perhaps the most prolific productivity teacher in my life thus far. The farther I get away from the surgery the more I’ve come to realize the productivity lessons from the whole thing.
I had to bring many things to a cold hard stop and then turn things back on in my life switch by switch like bringing up a server farm or a data center. Ultimately, I am realizing the benefits and seeing how it has been a catalyst for positive change.
Here are the five productivity lessons my Thyroid taught me:
I previously wrote about Do.com, gave it high marks, and then got to thinking about how it could work for managing offsite technical writing projects. I’ve had mixed experiences myself with offsite technical writing projects and while I still think some organizations are more equipped to deal with remote workers than others. However, I haven’t given up the hope that putting a management tool layer between the remote writer and those involved in the project at the mother ship couldn’t help improve communications and create an audit trail.
With a little bit of setup, Do.com can serve as a task management and communications broker between a remote writer and the rest of the project team.
Evernote is one of those cloud-based apps fees I have no problems paying every year. It helps me centralize a lot of information and keeps me organized both personally and professionally. I’ve liked watching the growth of Evernote’s ecosystem through the Evernote Trunk and seeing the application extended into new directions.
Evernote is ideal as a backend for information-centric applications and the Evernote Trunk shows some excellent extensions of Evernote through its API.
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