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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.brighthub.comhttp://www.brighthub.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Home Office</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home.aspx</link><description /><dc:language>en</dc:language><item><title>Eliminating Environmental Time Wasters</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/38094.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:48:22 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:38094</guid><dc:creator>mgwhitemti</dc:creator><description>Want to master the art of getting more done in a day&amp;#63; Take a look at the environment that you work in to identify &amp;#8211; and remove &amp;#8211; those factors that are keeping you from being productive and causing you to waste time. Do you need to find more hours in the day? You can't make more hours in the day or put more days in the week. What yo...</description></item><item><title>Recognizing Self Generated Time Wasters</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/38093.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:47:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:38093</guid><dc:creator>mgwhitemti</dc:creator><description>Are you wondering why other people seem to be able to get more done than you&amp;#63; It&amp;#39;s not because they have more time. It&amp;#39;s a fact that we all have the same 24 hours in every day and the same seven days in every week. Learn how to make the most of your time by recognizing common time wasters. If you're not sure why you never seem to have e...</description></item><item><title>Simple Time Tracking with Rachota</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/34520.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 14:05:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:34520</guid><dc:creator>geekch1ck</dc:creator><description>Time management is important to all home office workers. However, most time tracking programs are meant for large project management, or to track time for multiple team members. If you simply want to know where you spent your time throughout a day, Rachota may be the software for you. Overview Rachota is a time tracking program written in Java. It ...</description></item><item><title>How to Organize Your Passwords with Password Safe</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/33711.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:59:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:33711</guid><dc:creator>geekch1ck</dc:creator><description>Whether your home office is purely for personal use, or you run a small business from home, secure passwords are important. Password Safe allows you to organize all your passwords in one secure, encrypted file either on your hard drive or on a flash drive. Secure Passwords are Important Passwords are an integral part of everyone’s life. Even if you...</description></item><item><title>TextFlow Word Processing Application - Document Collaboration Made Easy</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/32042.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:53:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:32042</guid><dc:creator>AngePerdu</dc:creator><description>Nordic River is introducing a new way to edit documents with TextFlow. This is an ingenious parallel word processing tool that can fit the collaboration needs of any freelancer or business. Save money and increase your efficiency using TextFlow. Why TextFlow&amp;#63; TextFlow has re-invented the way professionals edit documents. This powerful parallel ...</description></item><item><title>Using Outlook's Journal to Increase Productivity</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/30894.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:37:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:30894</guid><dc:creator>RondaRoberts</dc:creator><description>This article describes how to use Outlook&amp;#39;s journal module to increase productivity by tracking the time spent on various items - including other Office software. Also touched upon is using journal to write a daily productivity report. Productivity Tool at Your Fingertips You may have used Microsoft Outlook's Journal to record notes for an impo...</description></item><item><title>The Keys to Working Less While Making More Money</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/29333.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:22:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:29333</guid><dc:creator>djnelson</dc:creator><description>Time management can be a struggle when working from home. If you are working all day and you find that you aren&amp;#8217;t getting anything done, and your income isn&amp;#8217;t increasing&amp;#59; it might be time to evaluate your productivity. The Problem&amp;#58; Too Much Time, Not Enough Income Let’s face it, when you are sitting at your computer for 12 hours...</description></item><item><title>Balance Home Office Work and Personal Lives</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/22743.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:48:27 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:22743</guid><dc:creator>meryl</dc:creator><description>Working where you live can make it difficult to draw the line between home and work lives. Get tips for making the line clearer so you can enjoy business and personal lives. Business and Personal&amp;#58; The Blurring Lines Working in a home office undoubtedly makes it hard to decide when your business life starts and your personal life goes on a hiatu...</description></item><item><title>Webs: An Inexpensive Marketing Tool For Any Home Business</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/reviews/26912.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:20:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:26912</guid><dc:creator>AngePerdu</dc:creator><description>Webs is an interesting website provider that offers customers enhanced social networking and marketing features. This inexpensive marketing tool can dramatically increase your home business productivity. Introduction Most of us are aware of the importance of visibility. Whether you’re selling a product or offering your services having an online pre...</description></item><item><title>Managing Time Lulls – How to Make The Most of Your Downtime</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/26680.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:22:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:26680</guid><dc:creator>KatieGatto</dc:creator><description>What you do when there is nothing to do can be the difference between a home office success story and having a whole lot more downtime because you don&amp;#39;t have any work at all. Take this balanced approach to managing these lulls, and put down the TV remote. When you work at home you find that many things that used to take up your time, idle distr...</description></item><item><title>Windows Live Services – Enhance Vista and Your Home Office</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/1516.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:15:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:1516</guid><dc:creator>JoliBallew</dc:creator><description>Microsoft now offers a wide range of free &amp;#8220;Live&amp;#8221; Services including Windows Live ID, Live Messenger, Live Contacts, Live Calendar, and more. If you&amp;#8217;re looking to enhance office productivity, check it out. Windows Live Services There are lots of Windows Live Services available, and almost all of them are free. These services add va...</description></item><item><title>How to Work More Efficiently With the Google Sidebar</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/25902.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:52:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:25902</guid><dc:creator>AllisonWhitehead</dc:creator><description>The Google Sidebar has plenty of gadgets available that can make it easier to work from home using your computer.&amp;#10;You&amp;#39;ll be more productive once you set it up to meet your own specific needs, no matter what work&amp;#160;you do. Make use of some desktop gadgets Working from home means making sure you are efficient and don’t waste any time in ge...</description></item><item><title>Common Organization Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: Part 2 – Work Habits</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/24966.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:30:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:24966</guid><dc:creator>Nacie</dc:creator><description>Do you find yourself wondering where the time went and why none of your to-do items were accomplished&amp;#63; In this article, we will review two common organization mistakes people who work at home make regarding their work habits and explore easy solutions that will help you be more productive. Not Taking Breaks When you work at home, it is common t...</description></item><item><title>Software That’s Good Enough That You Forget You’re Using It: My Top Ten Apps</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/17167.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:10:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:17167</guid><dc:creator>Profacgillies</dc:creator><description>When software works well it becomes invisible&amp;#58; if you have to think about the software whilst using it, it&amp;#8217;s not doing its job and you will be distracted from the task in hand. Here is my list of the top ten best most forgettable software apps&amp;#58; the pencils of the IT world. Introduction The best technology is transparent: so good you c...</description></item><item><title>Which Productivity Book is Best for You?</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/24287.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:09:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:24287</guid><dc:creator>KatieGatto</dc:creator><description>There are a lot of books out there that are designed to help you get yourself organized and become more productive, but how do your choose one from endless throngs or options&amp;#63; Save yourself some time and money by looking at four of the most popular productivity books on the market. Strength Finder 2.0 About this book: Strength Finder 2.0 is a b...</description></item><item><title>SAD: How to Combat Seasonal Affective Disorder</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/24284.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:28:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:24284</guid><dc:creator>jolizzy60</dc:creator><description>Learn how to treat the symptons of SAD&amp;#59; there are several natural and inexpensive treatments for SAD that can easily become a part of your daily routine. Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, affects millions of people every winter. Many experts believe that SAD develops from the lack of natural sunlight that occurs during the winter months. Dep...</description></item><item><title>Common Organization Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: Part 1 - Task Managing</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/24160.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:22:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:24160</guid><dc:creator>Nacie</dc:creator><description>Do you find yourself wondering where the time went and why none of your to-do items were accomplished&amp;#63; In this article, we will review two common organization mistakes people who work at home make when managing tasks and explore easy solutions that will help you be more productive and less stressed&amp;#33; Not Making a Schedule One of the most det...</description></item><item><title>How to Have a Profitable Organizational Meeting with Yourself</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/23668.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:05:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:23668</guid><dc:creator>AnnieMueller</dc:creator><description>You may work at home, alone, but you still need to review your goals, projects, tasks, and time lines. Learn how to have a productive organizational meeting, even if it&amp;#39;s just with yourself. One-Person Organizational Meeting An organizational meeting? If it's just you, sitting in your home office, that's probably not something you've considered...</description></item><item><title>Taking Templates To The Next Level In Microsoft Word</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/23479.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:34:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:23479</guid><dc:creator>Profacgillies</dc:creator><description>After you have defined your own document templates in Microsoft Word, how can you take them to the next level&amp;#63; Consider adding macros, using mail merge, and exploring other features. Introduction Combining templates with other features of Word including macros and mail merge can make you more productive by lessening repetition, reducing errors,...</description></item><item><title>Ergonomics as a Productivity Tool</title><link>http://www.brighthub.com/office/home/articles/22745.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 17:00:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">b133e95a-c263-4882-8f2a-b24547eff78e:22745</guid><dc:creator>nayab</dc:creator><description>Ergonomics &amp;#40;or human engineering&amp;#41; aims at optimizing human capabilities with work demands, by redesigning work processes based on aspects like safety, comfort, ease of use, productivity&amp;#47;performance, and aesthetics. Ergonomics plays a very important role in enhancing productivity at work. Workstation Studies in ergonomics find that optim...</description></item></channel></rss>