Telecommuting Is About More Than Just The Technology
We’ve hit the golden age of telework, with myriad options to work remotely from a broadband-connected home, a hotel, or.
We’ve hit the golden age of telework, with myriad options to work remotely from a broadband-connected home, a hotel, or.
This article was co-written by Matt Eshleman of Community IT Innovators and first published on the NTEN Blog in June.
Say you sign up for some great Web 2.0 service that allows you to bookmark web sites, annotate them, categorize them and share them. And, over a period of two or three years, you amass about 1500 links on the site with great details, cross-referencing -- about a thesis paper's worth of work. Then, one day, you log on to find the web site unavailable. News trickles out that they had a server crash. Finally, a painfully honest blog post by the site's founder makes clear that the server crashed, the data was lost, and there were no backups. So much for your thesis, huh? Is the lesson, then, that the cloud is no place to store your work?
This was originally published on the Earthjustice Blog in December of 2008. It’s a conundrum: how can you reduce your.
I normally try to avoid being preachy, but this is too good a bandwagon to stay off of. If you make decisions about technology, at your organization, as a board member, or in your home, then you should decide to green your IT. This is socially beneficial action that you can take with all sorts of side benefits, such as cost savings and further efficiencies. And it's not so much of a new project to take on as it is a set of guidelines and practices to apply to your current plan. Even if my day job wasn't at an organization dedicated to defending our planet, I'd still be writing this post, I'm certain.
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