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Top 10 Gmail tips and hacks - Download Squad
I do not work in the nude and other issues with working (and learning) online | Janet Clarey
Question your work - (37signals)
8 questions to ask yourself while working on projects, including "Why are we doing this?" and "Is this actually useful?"
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Wiki collaboration leads to happiness
Great visual showing how much simpler collaborating on documents with a wiki is than emailing attachments back and forth. Based on a report of collaboration within the US intelligence community (hence the logo for the wiki side of the table).
Lifehacker Code: Texter (Windows)
Lifehacker app for text replacement. Use for common phrases like your sig line
Declutter your office or you will get fat | Janet Clarey
Discussion of decluttering physical and virtual spaces to avoid feeling buried and lost and improve productivity. You need a vision of what you want, then you can get rid of the physical/virtual/mental clutter that doesn't help you reach that goal.
Half an Hour: Finding Time
Stephen Downes, on finding the time to write online by focusing on using content from a closed environment and bringing it into the open.
The whole point isn't to *add* online writing on top of everything else you do. Nobody has time for that.<br><br>Rather, what you want to be thinking of doing is to gradually migrate to writing online *instead* of writing for those other purposes.<br><br>That doesn't mean you become a blog writer and nothing else. Rather, what you'll find is that writing for the website makes writing for all those other things a lot easier.
The idea is to take the stuff you do for private audiences and to present it (as much as you can) to public audiences.<br>
Working from home « Design for Learning
Natalie Kilkenny writes about how much more productive she is as a telecommuter than working in a cube farm and answers the question "How do they know that you're working when they can't see you?"
The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed
Interview with Stewart Mader on how wikis can be used in higher ed for teaching, research, and administration. He discusses issues of "ownership" of content and how using a wiki can make assessment easier.
A List Apart: Articles: Working From Home: The Readers Respond
Tips from ALA readers on working from home--how to manage your time, be productive, and find balance. Telecommuting is very individual. I'd go insane if I had a manager who trusted me so little that I had to send HOURLY progress reports, but clearly it works for the person who submitted that idea.
Keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for Firefox
14 Best Google Doc Tricks « WeirdGuy
Tips and tricks for working more effectively with Google Docs
PureText Home Page
Free tool to strip formatting when copying and pasting text, without having to go through Notepad first
Nine Shift : How much more productive are teleworkers?
Summary of findings from a number of studies showing increases in productivity due to telecommuting. Increases in productivity range from 15% to 50%.
E.gg Timer - simple online countdown timer
Type a time and it starts a timer in your browser window. Useful for showing break times in online synchronous training. You can bookmark a specific URL for a time if you regularly use the same length of time.
World Time Buddy
Easy tool for scheduling meetings across time zones. Set it up with the locations you commonly use and bookmark your specific URL.
Remember The Milk - Forums / Tips & Tricks / Tips: Useful searches
Useful advanced searches for Remember the Milk (to do list), all of which can be saved as Smart Lists
Recently completed:
<br><b>completedWithin:"1 week of today"</b>
Doodle: easy scheduling
Free tool, no registration required. Create an event and some suggested times and send the link out to participants. Let everyone choose which times they are available. With registration, you can connect it to your calendar. I do sometimes miss enterprise Outlook for the simplicity of seeing everyone's availability when scheduling meetings, but this would probably work for most of my needs now.
Time Management Strategies for Online Instructors
Tips on time management for online instructors from UW-Stout
Survey Results: Virtual vs. Onsite – Part 1 | Ileighanne's Blog
Leigh Anne Lankford's survey results on instructional designer's perspectives on virtual vs. onsite work
Why a 30-Hour Workweek Is Good for Business - Quiet Revolution
How do you measure productivity in your work? Is it by how many hours you spend working? Is it by the volume of your output? Do you measure the quality of your work? Productivity falls with long work weeks, but too many organizations value 60 hour weeks over better quality and innovative work.
Productivity in the Modern Office: A Matter of Impact - Knowledge@Wharton
How you measure productivity and help less productive workers become more effective? This is especially relevant for people who work from home who are often perceived as not being as productive as those in the office.
The Research Is Clear: Long Hours Backfire for People and for Companies
Working long hours can decrease your total output, not just your hourly productivity rates. Overwork leads to stress, mistakes, and other problems that have real consequences for businesses.
This Is the Ideal Number of Hours to Work a Day, According to Decades of Science | Inc.com
Can you do 8+ hours of creative work every day? Not really. Your most productive work is probably around 4 hours a day. Use your other time for administrative tasks, reading, learning, hobbies, etc.
Remote Work Doesn’t Scale … or Does It? – Hacker Noon
The founder of Articulate explains how having a remote workforce makes it easier to scale up as a company grows
Because we’re remote, we’re laser-focused on productivity. We know a team’s working well because they’re producing high-quality work. And we know when things aren’t working well because there are hiccups in productivity or quality.
In fact, I firmly believe that <em class="markup--em markup--p-em">Articulate is better at collaboration and communication</em> than many traditional companies because we haven’t had the luxury of assuming it’ll just happen organically. We deliberately architect the way we work to support collaboration and foster clear, direct, open communication.
6 PowerPoint productivity boosters from BrightSlide | BrightCarbon
The free BrightSlide tool from BrightCarbon offers a number of useful features for working in PowerPoint
The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information - Forte Labs
This is outside my usual learning-related resource, but I think it's relevant to IDs and elearning developers because we tend to generate loads of digital files. We also frequently have multiple projects happening simultaneously (and if you do freelance or consulting work, those projects are on different systems). This article is about a method for both clearly identifying your projects and tasks as well as organizing the resources to support them.