What is workshifting.com?
If you work out of coffee shops, hotels, airports and your home every bit as much as the office, workshifting.com is for you. We'll feature tips, reviews, and opinions about the world of Web commuting (relying on the Web to get work done at any time, from virtually anywere.) That's what workshifting is all about. To assist with this, we have assembled a Worldwide Workplace Council comprised of the top minds in the world when it comes to Web commuting. This team of selected members will provide regular insights and will be featured here.We hope you stick around for a while, have some fun, learn a little bit and have a chance to interact with other workshifters.
Contributors
Chris Brogan
works in coffee shops, hotels, airports, aboard planes, and once or twice at the beach. He has 16 years telecom experience, but now runs a sales marketing and media consulting company. He blogs at [chrisbrogan.com]. Chris is also co-editor of this blog.
Justin Levy
spends most of his time mobile, workshifting from a multitude of various locations. Justin is able to successfully run multiple companies from these locations. He enjoys exploring how technology and productivity intersect. Read More...Justin runs New Marketing Labs, along with Chris Brogan. Justin writes over at justinrlevy.com and can be found hanging out on Twitter and Facebook. Justin is also co-editor of this blog. New Marketing Labs is the new media agency for Citrix Online.
Eric Bensley
works in Product Marketing for Citrix Online. He Web commutes and also works with geographically distributed partners on a daily basis. He's an advocate for workshifting, results-based work environments and the anywhere office. Read More...On the job Eric lives and breathes content marketing. Whether it's creating eBooks or speaking on Webinars, Eric engages prospective clients with meaningful content that helps them do their job better. Eric has a degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara in Business Economics.
Greg Rollett
is a Social Media and Youth Culture Marketer based in Orlando, FL. His background consists of marketing and advertising as well as a 10 year stint in the Indie Music Business. Greg is currently working on helping young people change the world through Rock Star Lifestyle Design. Read More...Greg is proud to serve on the Rock For Hunger Board of Directors and serves as the VP for the start-up non-profit in Orlando, FL. The organization helps those less fortunate in the area through Music, Peace and Action and has shown tremendous growth in its 1+ year of existence. Greg also sits on the inaugural Board for doterati, an association of Interactive Professionals in the Central Florida area.
Greg can be contacted via email at rollettmarketing at gmail dot com, on his website, Rock Star Lifestyle Design, at his Music Marketing site, or on Twitter.
David Baeza
leads the global media team for Citrix Online. He's a Workshifting advocate and is obsessed with finding great and free wifi. He's active on Twitter and believes in the power of crowd sourcing for social good. He has been in media and advertising. Read More...David Baeza leads the global media team for Citrix Online. He's a Workshifting advocate and is obsessed with finding great and free wifi. He's active on Twitter and believes in the power of crowd sourcing for social good. He has been in media and advertising for 17 years. He enjoys writing 140 character wine reviews as @manonthevine on Twitter.
AJ Leon
has been a vagabond workshifter since October 2008, traveling over the world with his wife and business partner, helping charities embrace the social web and utilizing "real time" web technologies to empower third world communities. Read More...AJ is the Co-Founder of the LaC project, a company with no headquarters, comprised of a workshifting staff, dispersed around the world, dedicated to seeking, collaborating & partnering with those hell bent on changing the world.
Ridiculously passionate about the power of the human web to enact social justice, AJ speaks has spoken in the US, Europe & Africa on the concept of opensource Charity. You can also find AJ blogging at theLaCproject.com and OpenSourceCharity.com and tweeting like a banshee. If a day goes by without him tweeting, he is probably dead.
Robin Roschke
Co-Founder, Principal, Product & Client Development, oversees all system design, and development as well as third product sourcing of FlexPaths' flexible work solutions to the Fortune 500 marketplace. Additionally, she leads the deployment of FlexPaths solutions Read More...to ensure these meet products the requirements of the corporate marketplace. Robin is directing the launch of the Flex Supplier Network designed to connect flex talent with flex employment opportunities. Robin earned both her B.A. in Finance and M.B.A. in Marketing from The George Washington University. She currently resides in Westchester, NY with her husband and two children.
Halley Hopkins
Executive Producer FlexPaths, Co-Founder Collective Context; oversees all consumer-side digital development. With a background in traditional, non-traditional digital marketing and production, Halley oversees all online content and development for FlexPaths. Read More...As an entrepreneur, her work ranges from helping to launch start-ups to social media initiatives for a variety of global brands. Hailing from Ohio with a background in fine arts and philosophy, she's been living and working in New York City for the last 8 years and hasn't looked back.
Inga Rundquist
is a PR Arsonist for MindFire Communications (www.mindfirecomm.com), a full-service advertising agency that helps ignite clients' brands with smart, research-based marketing campaigns. With a background in journalism, Read More...Inga worked as a business reporter before transitioning into the public relations world in 2006. These days, she works with clients in a variety of industries to help share their stories online and in the traditional media.
Born and raised in Germany, Inga moved to the United States when she was a junior in high school. Although she spends her fair share of time workshifting on the road or out of coffee shops, most of the time you can find her in her home office in Chicago. You can connect with Inga on Twitter, on LinkedIn.
Melanie Turek
is a Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. She is a renowned expert in unified communications, collaboration, social networking and content-management technologies in the enterprise. For 15 years, Ms. Turek has worked closely with hundreds of Read More...vendors and senior IT executives across a range of industries to track and capture the changes and growth in the fast-moving unified communications market. She also has in-depth experience with business-process engineering, project management, compliance, and productivity & performance enhancement, as well as a wide range of software technologies including messaging, ERP, CRM and contact center applications. Ms. Turek writes often on the business value and cultural challenges surrounding real-time communications, collaboration and Voice over IP, and she speaks frequently at leading customer and industry events, including VoiceCon, Interop and CMP Media's Enterprise 2.0 Conference, for which she serves as an advisory board member and track chair.
Prior to working at Frost & Sullivan, Ms. Turek was a Senior Vice-President and Partner at Nemertes Research. She also spent 10 years in various senior editorial roles at Information Week magazine. Ms. Turek graduated cum laude with a BA in Anthropology from Harvard College. She currently works from her home office in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.
Kellyanne Conway
is CEO and President of the polling company™, inc. a privately-held, woman-owned corporation founded in 1995. Throughout her 20-year qualitative and quantitative research career, Kellyanne has provided primary research and advice for clients in Read More...46 of the 50 states and has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for statewide and congressional political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies. A professionally trained moderator, Kellyanne has personally directed more than 300 focus groups and other qualitative discussions. She is one of the most quoted and noted pollsters on the national scene, and has been recognized as the most accurate predictor of the 2004 elections.
Chuck Wilsker
is President and CEO, The Telework Coalition, a not-for-profit headquartered in Washington, DC. TelCoa works to enable the advancement of Virtual, Mobile, and Distributed Work through Research, Education, Technology, and Legislation. His interests Read More...include both promoting the benefits of Telework as a means of providing employment opportunities for disabled workers, including service disabled veterans, older workers, and rural workers, and its use as a critical part of disaster avoidance and business continuity programs. Among many other networks, he is President of the Capitol Telecommunications Professionals, a member of the Internet Society, the Association of Contingency Planners, the National Council on Readiness and Preparedness and deputy chair of the Telecommuting Task Force at the Northern Virginia Technology Council. He has addressed diverse groups ranging from the National Institute of Science and Technology to the Association of Contingency Planners and the Peace Corps. He has appeared regular in national media to discuss telecommuting issues.
Emma Jones
is founder and editor of Enterprise Nation, the home business website, and has started two businesses herself from home offices in London, Manchester and rural Shropshire. Read More...Following a career with an international accountancy firm, Emma started her first business at the age of 27 and successfully sold it just 15 months after launch.
Emma launched the home business website in 2006. The site has attracted national press headlines and monthly readership of more than 60,000 people. Emma's columns have been syndicated to business start-up websites and customer magazines including for Orange, Viking Direct and Brother. She is regularly called upon by the Government to speak on the subject of home business and she advises Regional Development Agencies on how to encourage and support homeworking.
Emma's first book 'Spare Room Start Up - how to start a business from home' was published by Harriman House in May 2008 and promoted as Waterstones business book of the month.
Amanda Alexander
is the Founder and Director of Amanda Alexander Associates LLP. She helps busy professionals to achieve work life balance via a combination of face to face seminars and innovative online programmes. Read More...
Amanda specializes in helping working mothers with pressure-cooked lives. Her coaching programmes have helped literally hundreds of women in the UK, Europe and USA to reduce guilt and stress, manage their time more effectively and feel achieve balance.
Amanda is known as an expert in the media on topics around work-life balance, women's careers, "Mumpreneurs" and women returners. She comments regularly on BBC Radio and has featured in publications such as The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Practical Parenting, Eve, Prima Mother and Baby and BBC Parenting.
Amanda is a professionally qualified Coach and one of very few coaches in the UK who has met the stringent criteria to achieve accreditation with the International Coach Federation.
For more information, visit Amanda's websites at: www.amandaalexander.com www.coachingmums.com and www.corporatemothers.com
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