Xobni announced the results from an August online survey conducted on its behalf by Harris Interactive (in U.S.) and Opinion Matters (in UK) detailing workers’ views on work email. The surveys shows that the typical 9-5 work day no longer exists as workers in America and the U.K. regularly check email outside of normal business hours, including on vacation, weekends, sick days and even when they are in bed at home, in order to stay on top of their over-flowing inboxes.

Today, teachers are using the Web 2.0 tools to introduce lessons in their classroom. Students are collaborating with other students around the world, creating online content and displaying their work to a global world. Web 2.0 facilitates professional collaboration, networking, critical thinking, collaboration, innovation, creativity, global understanding and multicultural learning. Various tools for collaborative writing and editing, private communication, online conferencing, file sharing, and desktop sharing enable teachers to effectively collaborate with the students beyond school hours thus making optimum use of the technology available.

Telecommuting Fast Facts: Is it for you?

In the course of a five day work week (if I am lucky), these are a variety of meetings that fill up my time at the office. There are days when I go into a meeting of one type or another at 8AM (or earlier) and wrap up my meeting filled agenda at 5PM (or later). I’d like to say [...]

Gotta love Dilbert… he always gets it right!  

Recently, I wrote a blog post about how Middleboro, Massachusetts’ town government could use traditional and non-traditional media to communicate with residents and businesses. As Hurricane Irene (or, more technically speaking, Tropical Storm Irene) blew through town, I started to think about how the town could have used a variety of channels to communicate what was happening. After we lost [...]

Lately I’ve been seeing articles about companies banning social media in the office as well as some companies (mostly overseas) that have banned the Internet all together. My immediate reaction to these stories is that these companies are not the norm and that’s why journalists are writing about them. A study from Robert Half Technology found that 38% of chief [...]

Late in 2010, my husband and I moved to our new home in Middleboro. While the house was technically “move in ready” our Type A personalities kicked in and there were a few things we had to do before we could actually move in. We needed to have floors refinished and replaced, walls painted, chimneys and fireplaces cleaned and inspected [...]

Focus is about finding simplicity in this Age of Distraction. It’s about finding the focus you need to create, to work on what’s important, to reflect, to find peace…

By trade and passion I am a word person. I live, eat and breathe reading, writing and communicating with words. I am not – by any stretch of my imagination – an artistically-inclined visual person. Lately, though, I’ve been catching more and more information and articles about infographics and has started me down this weird path of trying to become [...]