Will Kelly

I Am Now Writing for WebWorkerDaily

I am happy to report that I've begun writing for WebWorkerDaily, part of the GigaOM network. It feels good to be writing for an online publication again and I am looking forward to exploring new technologies and writing about the future of work.

Look for my posts starting this month.

WordPress and LinkedIn

LinkedIn is really pressing forward with the integration of third-party applications and Web services into their platform. All in all, this is a prudent move for LinkedIn to keep pace with social networking and to do the best to augment their platform.

Their integration with WordPress means LinkedIn users can tie into their WordPress site and have their latest posts  show up in their LinkedIn profile.

Checking Out Google Voice

Google Voice is coming out of beta as more Google Voice invites trickle out to users which is good news to web workers because Google Voice includes some nifty features for better managing voice and SMS communications.

The power of Google Voice is that it enables you to forward your Google Voice phone number to multiple phone numbers like your office phone, mobile phone, and client site phone. This makes web workers always accessible via phone and also gives them a client facing number that isn't one of their live working numbers so they can maintain privacy.

Checking Out SlideRocket

The good folks at SlideRocket hit me up on Twitter a few weeks back after reading a blog post I wrote about Acrobat.com Presentations offering me a look at their product.

PowerPoint presentations are just asking to be put online via a service like SlideRocket and Acrobat.com Presentations so I was more than happy to check out their product.

The Statue of Limitations on Original Ideas

While it can be hard to admit to many organizations, ideas do get recycled. Take for example, in politically hot climates where executives are fighting to hold onto their jobs and bloated compensation plans that don't take into account their competency and body of work. It's all about survival mode these days.

For a while, there has been a running joke with some of my friends and colleagues about the Statue of Limitations on Original Ideas to account for stolen ideas. The Statue of Limitations on Original Ideas starts the moment a manager or executive shoots down an underling's idea and and expires the move the manager or executive recycles the ideas as their own creation.

Random and Recent Projects

I've been in a real tinkering mode as of late. Perhaps it's because I reread my copy of the Lifehacker book at the pool over last weekend.

Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 showing some love to the Mac?

When I was writing my post about building the better corporate instant messaging deployment I was using my MacBook Pro. A Google search on Windows Live Messenger turned up this very Mac centric page about Microsoft Messenger: mac and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007:

Zoho Office for SharePoint Launches

Zoho recently made a very strategic move by launching Zoho Office for SharePoint because of SharePoint's growing dominance in the enterprise. It seems everybody I am speaking to about potential projects these days is using Microsoft Office SharePoint Services 2007 for secure document collaboration inside their firewall.

Gaining Perspective While Cleaning Out My Home Office

I've been spending some of my downtime cleaning out my home office. My work as a technical writer, computer book technical editor/reviewer, and freelance writer have made me a pack rat.

The other fact is that my office is at the highest point in my town house so I have to carry things up two flights of stairs meaning some things stay up there.

Box.net on LinkedIn

I've written before on this blog about the convergence of social networking, online collaboration tools, and the Web Office.

LinkedIn, a business-focused social networking site is jumping into that fray by offering up integration to a free Box.net account. This is a great vehicle for posting writing samples (that are in the public domain) and even Word or PDF versions of resumes to make them accessible on LinkedIn.