Telecommuting

Leo Burd from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media and Owen Barton from CivicActions ran a webcast last week with an introduction and update on VoIP Drupal, which is a framework for allowing your Drupal site to make and receive phone calls and interact with the site by phone.

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In Developing A Personal Email Management Strategy I discussed the sorting, filtering and processing of the seemingly endless flow of email I receive. Recently, I took the plunge and converted my non work email to IMAP in preparation for converting work email to the same. The goal is to be able to see important direct email on my iPhone without seeing all the list traffic, commercial communications and other solicited bulk email.

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I am blessed with the opportunity to pretty much go and work anywhere in the world. Over the last couple of years, I got myself totally out of debt, (which in itself has given me a huge sense of freedom and I'll admit, pride). This circumstance, combined with my optimism and unbounded enthusiasm for all things CivicActions, I'm feeling empowered to go just about anywhere in the world to live and work. UPDATE: I love the idea of spending a year abroad as an itinerant digital worker.

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