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Matt’s Cuppa Diigo Post 07/30/2008

telecommatt | July 30, 2008

emPivot | The leading green video sharing and green video search engine.

A video sharing site for the green-hearted

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Companies Catching on to Telework, but is the Corporate Culture Ready?

telecommatt | July 29, 2008

So far I’ve worked for both public and private companies, for large government organizations, and for myself. I’ve also been a telework proponent for years. I can say that, without a doubt, I’ve been most productive when I’m allowed to dictate my work environment. Which is perhaps why this article really resonated with me.

This post from (surprise!) WebWorkerDaily is probably the best collection of telework-related advice I’ve ever read. Aimed at large corporations, Mike Gunderloy & Aliza Sherman do a bang-up job summarizing myths associated with corporate telework as well as the benefits- a few of which you may not have thought of before!

It’s true that large corporations seen to have a hard time “getting it” when it comes to initiatives like telework. Telework requires a certain amount of trust that your employees will behave responsibility while out of your direct control (aka the office). Not all corporate cultures allow for this to occur. And even in cultures that do, many employees aren’t ready to work outside the corporate yolk.

clipped from webworkerdaily.com

As the New York Times has noticed, big corporations are starting to get with the web work program. But they’re mostly doing it in a big corporation sort of way, with fancy (and expensive) telepresence systems. While this approach may indeed offset the rapidly-rising price of travel, those of us who are long-term web workers may roll our eyes at this narrow-minded perception of the best way to remotely work.

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Matt’s Cuppa Diigo Post 07/28/2008

telecommatt | July 28, 2008

Twitter / NewLeadersCNCL

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Weekend Project: Find Your Real Purpose

telecommatt | July 25, 2008

I found this post by Steve Pavlina rather randomly, which is sort of cool, considering the topic of the article. And I figured that, since we’re headed into the weekend, it would be a good time to post something a little different at Matt’s Cuppa.

If it sounds somewhat tongue-in-cheek for Mr.Pavlina to say that we can discover our reason for being in the space of 20 minutes, then I suggest that you’re fixating on the wrong part of that sentence. You’re focused on the “20 minutes” part instead of the “discover your life purpose” part. What he’s really saying here is that we all innately why we are here.

While that wisdom is certainly nothing new, finding the answer to the question is something few people really seriously and actively set out to answer. Why? Because it’s daunting, it’s scary, we’ve got too many other responsibilities, etc. (Although, for some odd reason, I have met more people in the social media world that know for certain what their purpose is than in any other sphere I’ve been in.)

But what if Mr.Pavlina is right, and you can find the answer to life’s ultimate question before you head back to work on Monday? Personally, I’m convinced that we do all know what we’re here for, but we won’t shut up long enough to hear what it is. Which is why I like his approach. If we simply keep asking ourselves the question over and over again, eventually we’ll have exhausted all of the reasons that don’t matter, all of the reasons that aren’t really ours, all of the reasons created by the various roles we play, and all we’ll be left with is the real reason that we’re here.

In the end, the test is not finding the real answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything, but persisting in our questioning long enough to hear it.

Happy Friday All!

clipped from www.stevepavlina.com

How do you discover your real purpose in life? I’m not talking about your job, your daily responsibilities, or even your long-term goals. I mean the real reason why you’re here at all — the very reason you exist.

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Scoble, Tech Blogging, Fails, and More Scoble

telecommatt | July 23, 2008

Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Has/How/Why tech blogging has failed you «

Rewriting (or competing with) the Wall Street Journal isn’t why I started blogging back in 2000. I started blogging because I wanted to share my life with you

Okay, this is a really long article, even by Scoble standards, but it’s worth a read, even if you don’t (and you won’t) agree with everything he has to say. What he’s talking about is taking blogging back to it’s humble beginnings where everything was still new and exciting. In some respects, I think we may just have to accept the fact that blogging has grown up. Just like any other product or idea, blogging has matured significantly in the decade or so it’s been around. In the real world, maturing means that it becomes concerned with business and funding and all the other things that come with the territory.

On the other hand, part of the soul of what blogging is has to do with the excitement of sharing something new. I can understand that. I spend countless kilobytes searching new web-based applications that I post about here or over at eHub. (or just bookmark and hope that I have time to explore them later.) It’s exciting for me; it’s like a real-life treasure hunt.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of reflecting lately on the amount of time I spend in the various aspects of my life. Blogging takes up a lot of my time. Most of that time is research, something that I enjoy. I really pressed myself to answer the question, “Why do I blog?” The timing of Scoble’s post is oddly coincidental, because the only answer that I came up with was because it excites me to find new things and share them.

So, back to Scoble’s question. Has tech blogging failed? Has it’s maturity pulled it beyond reach of the excitement factor that Scoble talks about? Personally, I think that you need both sides if blogging is to continue as a viable means of communication. We’ll always need the ‘big box’ blogs like TechCrunch or Mashable! that are out there to scoop the Wall Street Journal’s tech editors. We (bloggers) will always turn to them first for tech news. ‘Big Box’ blogs clear the way for little one’s like Matt’s Cuppa that are out there just because tech is an exciting place to be.

Just a final note, be sure to read the comments. Well, maybe not all gazillion of them, but there is some good conversation following the post.

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Pre-Configured Linux Distros for VirtualBox

telecommatt | July 22, 2008

Another good resource for those who want to play with Linux without committing a box to it. And “pre-configured” always has a nice ring to it.

clipped from lifehacker.com

If you’ve been checking out the newest VirtualBox beta for Mac OS X, or you’re intrigued by Linux but not ready to deal with virtualizing it, the Sun xVM VirtualBox VDI Index—or, as it’s skeevily nicknamed, veeDee-Eyes—has a host of pre-compiled, pre-configured images for you. No need to set up space, “boot” from a live CD and mess around with hardware config, as copies of Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE and others are ready to run. Not all of them are free, with a few of the multi-GB distros asking for a buck or two to cover server costs, but a good number of interesting variants and betas are there for the taking. VirtualBox runs on Windows, Mac, or Linux, and is a free download.

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Matt’s Cuppa Diigo Post 07/22/2008

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Posterous is Minimal Effort Blogging

telecommatt | July 21, 2008

I know I can always turn to DemoGirl when it comes to finding cool and useful online tools. Here’s a great screencast of super easy blogging platform Posterous. Similar to Tumblr, but even easier to use, I can definitely see a growing audience for this and perhaps other no-brainer blogging platforms. Thanks for the tip, Molly!