Written by Simon Mackie. Last week, Darrell Etherington wrote about how hard it is to measure the value of Twitter. One way to measure the impact that you’re having on the Twitter-sphere would be to see how many people link to your service, product or blog. Unfortunately, due to Twitter’...

Written by Simon Mackie. As web workers, we probably have to endure meetings less often than our cube-dwelling counterparts. When you do hold a meeting with a client or with your teammates, either face-to-face or as a teleconference, you want to make it as effective as possible so you get the outcom...

Written by Simon Mackie. Having a hard time concentrating on the work you do at home? Maybe you’ve outgrown your home office. You could rent one somewhere else, but that can be quite expensive. You could find a coworking space, but unless you live in a major city they can be quite hard to come...

Written by Simon Mackie. Image by sxc.hu user tryout0 It’s a lovely spring-like day here in Bristol today, which has inspired me to do some cleaning. But I’m not cleaning my apartment (which is spotless, of course); I’m tidying my laptop, getting it into tip-top shape so that it ke...

Written by Simon Mackie. CloudContacts, a startup aiming to make the information stranded on business cards more accessible, added a new service to its offering this week. While they may seem archaic, business cards are still the de facto way of sharing contact information. After attending a confere...

Written by Simon Mackie. I had my first real taste of web working back in 2000, at Wrox Press. Wrox used Microsoft Exchange for email and calendaring. Exchange came with Outlook Web Access (one of the first real web apps), which meant that you could open up Internet Explorer on any PC, log in to ...

As you will probably have read on Friday, Judi Sohn has stepped down as editor of WebWorkerDaily. I’m the site’s new editor. I’d like to thank Judi for the work that she’s done on WWD and also for making the transition between editors as simple and painless as it could possib...