Do you work in the cloud? Well, if you have handled any ‘work’ by email for the past few years, you were sort of working in the Cloud of the Internet…not having your work feet on solid ground.
Tools at various places, but most particularly available at Google docs permits someone to build content documents, spread sheets, slide presentations and site/wiki projects online. There are Google Docs templates for time sheets, invoices, resumes, party invitations and more The tools are user friendly if you dig around to learn how things are done differently than the office software you have used to put your production on autopilot. The Cloud offers some good collaboration aspects that are more clunky using email to send files around for review and change.
Google docs is available to anyone with a Gmail account. Setting up Google Apps takes a little more effort, but it is not impossible.
On @Bar JD Virtual Professionals and at Particularly Virtual, I wrote more about working in the Cloud. I learned about the first Cloud tools through other virtual assistants’ sharing of information at VAnetworking.com. I’ve developed my philosophy about the tools and made my decisions regarding their use.
Do yourself a favor and check out the tools and opportunities to create and even publish at Google and other places in the Cloud.
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