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Remote Team Collaboration: Presentify

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In the last two weeks I wrote about Zappy and Loom - tools that help you with sharing information, documenting work and collaborating visually in remote or distributed work settings. Continuing with this general theme, today I'd like to suggest another, similar tool: Presentify (Mac App Store) is macOS menu bar app that allows you to annotate any screen or highlight your cursor, no matter the context or app you're in. This makes Presentify ... Read more

Remote Team Collaboration: Loom – Screen & Video Recording Software

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Last week I wrote about Zappy by Zapier, a tool for visually documenting and sharing your work and your underlying processes. Loom is a similar tool that - by going beyond mere screenshots with actual screen recordings - allows your team to collaborate remotely and asynchronously. From explaining and reviewing code to design critiques, customer support, sales, and employee feedback there are a variety of use cases such a tool can you help you with when ... Read more

Remote Team Collaboration: Communicate via Annotated Screenshots with Zappy for macOS

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Zapier is a workflow automation software I'm using extensively and which I can highly recommend. Zapier is fully distributed remote company. In order to simplify collaborating visually while working remotely they have been using a tool called "Zappy for macOS" for some time now and they've recently released it for others to use as well. Zappy allows you to quickly capture, annotate, and share screenshots with your co-workers. In their own words, Zappy is: The fastest, all-in-one way ... Read more

Remote Work Is Here to Stay: Best Practices and Tools

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.2019 seems to have been the year when remote work finally caught on. While not exactly the new default yet it's not as alien and outré anymore as it used to be just a few years ago. Today, instead of being ridiculed or looking into bewildered faces proponents of remote work are usually taken seriously. You're also far less likely to hear bromides such as "Yeah, we don't do that here because in-person communication ... Read more

Water Cooler Talk Is Toxic

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.An often-heard counter-argument against remote work is that those working remotely will miss out on so-called water cool talk, i.e. communication that happens casually and outside of scheduled meetings and discussions. In my opinion that kind of talk can be considered toxic. If it's merely about socialising and getting to know your co-workers better that's certainly fine and conducive to a positive work environment. However, often water cooler talk involves bandying about rumours as well as ... Read more

37signals works remotely

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.37signals works remotely - why doesn't your company, too? Read more

Why Hyperloop’s awesome and still the wrong idea

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.On 12 August 2013 Elon Musk published his much anticipated Hyperloop idea. Given his track record, Musk's 'Tony Stark'-like image and claims that Hyperloop would be a 'fifth mode of transportation' that 'could revolutionize travel' people got excited about what his exact vision might be. So, now we know: Hyperloop basically is an elevated tube through which transport capsules move. The tube's partially evacuated to reduce friction, hence allowing for much greater speed (almost approaching ... Read more

DHH on “No more remote work at Yahoo”

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.David Heinemeier-Hansson of 37signals on how Yahoo is completely mistaken to do away with remote work. Read more
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