Product Description

If you use the web to reach out beyond the confines of your office, cubicle, or home to connect and collaborate with others doing the same thing, you’re a web worker. In this book you'll learn how to use new web tools, discover sites and services you might want to try, and meet the social web where people are as important as corporations. You’ll learn how people are working in new ways because of the web, and how you can too.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #320858 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 294 pages

From the Back Cover
"This is a book about the future that is arriving now. It will transform your work habits, productivity, and attitude."
— Richard Ogle, Author, Smart World

"Zelenka gives every web worker—be they corporate or indie—an array of invaluable tips and insights to survive what surely is the beginning of a golden era of work."
— Steve rubel, Senior Vice President, Edelman and AdAge Digital columnist

"Zelenka demonstrates how putting the web to its best use can actually boost your productivity, if not entirely transform your career."
— Gina Trapani, Editor, Lifehacker

"Full of great tips and terrific suggestions, it's a must-read how-to guide for the digitally minded."
— Kara Swisher, Technology columnist, Wall Street Journal

"This is an awesome resource for independent web workers!"
— Tara Hunt, Founder, Citizen Agency

Are you a web worker?

You are if you use the web to reach out beyond the confines of your office, cubicle, home workspace, or seat at the coffee shop to connect and collaborate with others doing the same thing. In this book you'll learn how to use new web tools to improve your work life. You'll discover web sites and services you might want to try. You'll meet the social web, where people are as important as corporations. You'll learn how people like yourself are working in new ways because of the web, and how you can too.

About the Author
Anne Truitt Zelenka is a writer and web technologist. As editor at large of Web Worker Daily, Anne brings a mix of career and technical advice to readers looking to find success and satisfaction in the new ways of working enabled by the web.
Anne has been in software and web development since the nineties, and worked through the dot-com boom as a database and web application developer. She lives in Denver with her husband Rick and three children. You can reach her via her website at annezelenka.com.

Judi Sohn, editor of Web Worker Daily, has over 10 years experience as a homebased graphic designer, technology consultant, and blogger. Now remotely managing a patient advocacy nonprofit organization, she truly lives the web worker life and brings her practical experience to Web Worker Daily readers.
Judi lives in Central New Jersey with her husband Eric and two daughters. She maintains a personal blog at momathome.com.

Customer Reviews

Empowering and Comprehensible
This book impacted my view of the internet in an empowering way. It caused me to reevaluate my approach to both work and family, and how to blend (even sometimes separate) those worlds in a more smooth and efficient manner. I learned many tips and tricks that have assisted me in accomplishing goals and meeting deadlines. This book also prompted me to consider going out on my own as a freelancer. I don't know if I would have given much thought to such a venture without the discussions and concepts the author brought forth. What I like best about the author's writing is that it is comprehensible for a relatively low techie, like me, to understand.

Longer than necessary...
While the book does offer some helpful insights and recommendations for working and connecting via the web much of the information could have been communicated in a more condensed manner. Many topics were repeated over and again with little information added. Over all it was a good book for an introduction to web working but the author makes a lot of assumptions about how people (other than herself) accomplish their work. It's worth reading, unless you have something else to tackle first...

Meer wijsheid dan je op eerste oog doorhebt
Met Judi Sohn presenteert Web Worker Daily schrijfster Anne Truitt Zelenka in Connect! A Guide to a new way of working vele tips, verwijzingen en inspiratie voor de de web werker. De web werker wordt gepositioneerd als vervolg in de lijn van productiewerker uit de Industriële Revolutie, de kenniswerker (gepropageerd door Peter Drucker sinds de jaren '50 van de vorige eeuw). Mensen die hun plek zoeken in de uitdagende wereld van hetzij een gecombineerd leven van kantoorwerker en een rijk (sociaal) online leven, de freelancer die niet om het web heenkan, de projectleider die mensen verbindt op verschillende locaties en in verschillende tijdzones. Connect! laat je - voor zover je ze nog niet kent - kennismaken met handige hulpmiddelen als instant messaging, (micro)blogging, zoekmachines en online projectmanagement. Het haalt de krenten uit de pap voor wat betreft werkplek, keuze van telefoon, computer en online diensten. Het biedt handige aanwijzingen om dingen gedaan te krijgen, efficiënt met de stroom e-mails, RSS-feeds en andere vragen/verstoringen/afleidingen om te gaan. Het schept helderheid in mogelijke werkvormen om van hobby werk te maken en andersom, betrekt zaken als persoonlijke financiën, het belang van 'echte' relaties, oog voor de gevaren van burnout, overspanning en frustratie. Connect! leest lekker weg, maar bevat meer wijsheid dan je op eerste oog doorhebt.