Posts Tagged ‘virtual office’

For those of you who are following us and keeping up with our company history, you know that we’ve setup a remote work environment and that we don’t have a physical office space any more. We mostly work virtually.

We’re using technology to communicate, collaborate, and achieve a lot! In particular, we use a bunch of web applications to do what we need to do and share what we want to share – some of them we’ve developed ourselves, some we’ve bought, and some are free. Project management, task management, time tracking, file sharing, chat, are just a few examples of what we handle through web apps.

But sometimes all these tools and technology just defeat the purpose. It kinda gets in the way. When you have a bunch of things you need done, but you don’t necessarily need to cooperate on these things, or track the time you spend on them, or be particularly organized, then there’s nothing better than a good old quick text document you use temporarily and discard when you’re done. As an example, here’s my to-do list from last Sunday (08/07): (more…)

I spent the month of March traveling in Costa Rica and though it was pretty much business as usual during that time I didn’t write any new posts while I was away.  Blogging can be really easy but when you drink fresh coconut water all day, your priorities end up naturally changing!

All the hard work we’ve done over a period of a few months before I left really paid off. By putting together our virtual office setup and our remote work environment, we created a context that made it possible for me to travel without compromising on our company work. I’ve learned a lot in the process and I’ll make sure to share with you here how we setup our virtual office, which tools we’re using, and how we now get better work done than ever  before. So make sure to grab the RSS feed or to follow us on Twitter

Everyday while in Costa Rica I spent some time working on my laptop at internet cafes near where I was staying at the time. I was collaborating with my team mates, communicating with customers, and getting great work done! Working and traveling can definitely co-exist – you just need to have the right tools.