telecommute

Are you looking to obtain a new, catchy domain name for your business or website? Now, may be the time to get one because a new domain extension has been released, the .me domain. With all the “good” .com, and .net domain names already taken, now may be the time to latch on to a catchy one with the .me extension.

During the so called “landrush”, domain names are open to the public and anyone can apply to purchase one. After the landrush ends on June 26, 2008, the domain names will be auctioned off.

I wonder if help.me, love.me, bite.me, or byte.me is taken?

If you want one, it will cost you $49.99 for a year from GoDaddy. That’s with a minimum of a 2 year registration.

Did you happen to catch the Today Show on NBC today? Well I did and they ran an over 4 minute segment on the Four-Day work week and telecommuting!

Stories were presented on employees being hit hard by these rising fuel costs – some saying that they are using up to one week’s pay out of the month’s pay for gasoline! Unbelievable isn’t it?

Because of these soaring costs, some businesses are taking notice and offering employees telecommuting and yes, some are offering a four-day work week. One company mentioned in the segment in particular, Lathem Corp is offering offers telecommuting, van pools, and four-day work weeks.

Benefits of telecommuting mentioned are increases in morale, loyalty, productivity. Some studies suggest that some companies are experiencing 10%-20% increases in productivity from telecommuting.

Matt Lauer interviewed John Challenger, CEO of Challenger, Gray and Christmas, the nations leading employment and consulting firm.

You can catch the full video here

Google sites is a new free website creation tool that Google claims can be used for such things as sharing information on a secure company intranet to connecting with family members to collaborating on a team project.

You can choose website themes and can edit the website just like a document. Attachments can be uploaded as well, links can be added, images can be inserted, and documents can be embedded. Pages can be added through the create pages feature. There are different pages with different features. Pages such as announcements, lists, dashboards, and others. It’s single simple click creation with no HTML needed.

There is site sharing and you can decide who and how many people can view or edit the site. In other words, the website can be public, semi-private, or private. You can allow access to view or edit the website by email addresses. In other words, you can allow multiple people such as students of a classroom or members of a club to submit and edit content.

Check out Google Sites today!

Unfortunately, it is for the UK, not the US. On May 15th, 2008, the UK had a National Work from Home Day. It was their third year of doing so.

The goal is that by the year of 2011, they will give about 14 million people, about half the working population, the ability to have smarter working practices.

This is not supposed to be a day off to play hooky, if you will, but a day to prove that an employee can be more productive without the stresses of a long commute or just plain workplace.

Here in the US we have the “Take your Daughter to Work Day”. I wonder if the US will ever have a National Work from Home Day? Let’s hope so!

You can find the full story on UK’s National Work from Home Day here:

Source: http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/03/12/3323536.htm