Home Base

Who needs a headquarters?
Feb. 10, 2003
Forget leasing office space, virtual firms are efficient, nimble

How to grow gracefully
Jan. 27, 2003
When your small business expands beyond the home office

Handling the hotel
Feb. 25, 2002
Tips for teleworker use of temporary office space.

Mine, mine, mine
Feb. 18, 2002
Once heralded as the answer to real estate space woes and workers' desires to be less tied to the office, hoteling is getting a critical look as workers lament the loss of workplace anchors.

Mapics learns a new way to work
Feb. 04, 2002
How one company is going all-telework - and preparing its employees.

Mapics shutters facility in favor of virtual office
Jan. 28, 2002
Moving to an all-telework arrangement necessitates a lot of planning.

New telemanagers better learn fast
Nov. 12, 2001
How one new-to-telework manager made the telework transition smooth for her staff.

Giving ad hoc offices a second look
Nov. 05, 2001
Advice for making an instant home office better.

Large branch offices require different attention
Dec. 19, 2005
How to develop a branch-office strategy

Knowing what's out yonder
Dec. 12, 2005
One of the most important strategies of effective branch-office management is simply knowing what you're managing. It sounds pretty basic, but many IT executives haven't identified and categorized their branch-office ...

Branch office IT strategies are vital
Dec. 05, 2005
Branch offices - and particularly the employees in them - have quickly become critical assets to the majority of companies and organizations.

Telework advocates get together
Oct. 03, 2005
A congressman, former governor and CEO took part in a Web conference held last week to champion teleworking as a means to reduce fossil fuels dependencies, provide business continuity and ease the burden on our ...

Tips for formalizing a telework support strategy, Part 1 of 2
Aug. 15, 2005
IT staff should put themselves in teleworkers' shoes for a bit, analyst says

Two new ways to watch TV via your network
Jul. 11, 2005
A look at Plextor 's new PVR and Sling Media's Slingbox

With telework, it pays to be formal
Jul. 04, 2005
Businesses miss out on economic savings with informal telework programs.

A new DSL deal
Jun. 13, 2005
SBC's promotional offering for residential DSL service expected to appeal to consumers and SMBs

Factoring teleworkers into business continuity planning. Part 2
Jun. 06, 2005
Eight steps for starting business continuity planning

Factoring teleworkers into business continuity planning
May. 30, 2005
Savvy companies aren't just setting up employees to work from their homes because it's a nice perk to offer. They're also factoring these remote work sites into their business continuity plans.

Building a media center, Part 4
Mar. 21, 2005
The kinks worked out, our media center shines

Building a media center, part 3
Mar. 07, 2005
(To recap: Rather than buy a new Media Center PC, we converted an existing Windows XP computer by adding a TV tuner card and SageTV PVR software, which includes a ‘server' and a client application that let us view TV on ...

Building my own media center, Part 2
Feb. 21, 2005
Transferring video between systems proved to be S-L-O-W going

Building my own media center, Part 1
Feb. 07, 2005
Installing the TV tuner card and PVR software wasn't without drama

HomeLAN Adventures
Jan. 31, 2003
Keith Shaw's semi-monthly look at home networks and the products that are changing the way we work and play.

Tech Partners
Oct. 06, 2002
The IT Solution Provider Alliance's monthly column covering the issues facing SMBs.

Home Base
Oct. 06, 2002
Sandra Gittlen's bi-weekly look at the issues associated with telework and small or mobile businesses.