I am paying a lot more attention to flow these days and my productivity is already improving.
One of the best things about working from home is more control of your work environment but in almost any work environment you do have some control.
A few lives ago I worked in a company with an unhealthy addiction to CC; every email went to everyone it seamed and it was easy to get hundreds of internal emails a day.
In reaction I turned of automatic email fetch and started to only hit send/receive 3 times a day. Some colleagues who sent emails like “can you come into my office” were thrown at first by my lack of immediate response but they got the hang of it and my productivity increased. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been testing Tungle for a month or two now and I like it so I have added tungle.me widgets to this blog and my facebook page.
For me the value of tungle is that it is a more flexible and more polite way to set up meetings. I don’t pick a time for a meeting, I provide my client with a selection of times that work for me and they pick the one that works best for them.
Tungle.me is a way of letting people proactively book meetings with me. They suggest times and reason for a meeting using my tungle.me page and I pick the time slot that works for me. Tungle sends both of us meeting invites to go in our calendars.
I have been testing Tungle for a few weeks now and I’m very impressed so far.
I was attracted to it for a few reasons;
- I am now working for a virtual group with members on different networks, companies and OS’s.
- I have always wanted to be able to share my availability with people I am trying to set a meeting with
now I can at tungle.me/stephenpeacock
- I like the idea of offering people a choice when I am propose a meeting.. its just polite. Read the rest of this entry »
