Daily reading: Social life of Knowledge worker
Today I found a great new book through Josh’s blog. It is Connect—A Guid to a New Way of Working by Anne Zelenka who is the editor at Web Worker Daily. I read Josh’s review for this book and the book page on Amazon and Anne’s profile.
1.Connect: A Guide to a New Way of Working (book review)
By Josh
URI: http://bokardo.com/archives/connect-a-guide-to-a-new-way-of-working-book-review/
…..going beyond email to communicate with others (hello Twitter), how to schedule meetings with remote colleagues, how to share views on each other’s work, but most importantly how to keep it all human.
The real deal is to do work with people you like, people you can geek out with, not people who promise more.
web working is not always about efficiency, it’s also about peace of mind and the power of the individual.
2. Amazon page: Connect!: Web Worker Daily’s Guide to a New Way of Working
by editor of Amazon and Customers
Product Description
……Web workers make themselves more productive and successful by swapping the traditional tools for powerful Web 2.0 technologies such as social networking, blogging, email, IM, and online word processing.
…..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.
Customer Reviews
…..Anne makes a great distinction between knowledge work and web work. With knowledge work, the focus has been on the corporation, proprietary technologies, desktop tools, and knowledge, but in contrast, web work is focused on individuals, open technologies, web tools, and relationships.
……Busy work is based on work hours, email, company relationships, inflexible long-term planning, and web surfing as a time waster, while bursty work is about getting the job done regardless of hours worked, collaboration tools instead of email, relationships that are broader than just your company, agile planning, and web surfing as fuel for ideas.
……they can understand that a connected, bursty lifestyle can work for many of us.
3. About Anne Truitt Zelenka
by Anne URI: http://www.annezelenka.com/about-anne
Anne Truitt Zelenka is a web technologist, consultant, and writer who lives and works in Denver, Colorado. She serves as editor at large for Web Worker Daily, occasionally contributes to GigaOM, and blogs about family cooking at The Everyday Cafe.
Peter Drucker coined a term Knowledge worker in 1959. The item means one who works primarily with information or one who develops and uses knowledge in the workplace. I believe Anne is talking on social life of Knowledge worker. Web2.0 should be change the business world, then Knowledge worker should have social life in the new web.
Josh said “Hi Everybody. My name is Josh. I’m a web worker.”
Are you a web worker? I believe I’m then I want to read this great book:)