Real-time Collaboration Tools

With the costs of petrol rising fast and companies feeling the squeeze, the home based workspace is becoming an appealing choice. Changing attitudes have been forced by a smaller pool of skilled workers to draw on and the need to look outside one's own city region or country for experienced people.

Now that the internet is a core part of every 21st Century company, organisations relying on face to face communications may not be able to afford that luxury for much longer. Large central studios or expensive offices spaces can be replaced with distributed, networked and often home-based teams. Which is a great step toward the fabled perfect work/life balance that has been promised since the birth of the computer age.

I have been teleworking internationally for over ten years, having been an online editor, community manager, columnist, and now IPTV producer & animatrix. One thing I have learnt from riding out the first dotcom wave is to stay small, efficient and flexible, by using creative workflows & real time collaboration tools.

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