So a few years ago a colleague of mine put me onto this website called Lifehacker. It's a weblog about lifehacks and software that covers a varying range of topics from general life tips and tricks to business related ones and has helped me in both personal and work related instances.
They recently ran a competition with VMWare who provide various remote working software products. The idea of it was to see how you could take remote working to the extreme and what better way than to channel your Castaway/Lost fantasy than to be working on an island off the coast of Australia.
In any case I never really think much of these competitions and will apply for a few here and there, but imagine my surprise when I find out that not only have I been short listed, but that I've actually won the major prize. Well that is exactly what's happened and later at the start of August I get to fly off to Townsville, get a boat to Magnetic Island and work with the guy at VMWare to write and video blog about my experiences.
Whilst it may seem like fun and games I'm actually pretty keen to see how much I can get done. I've done the remote working type gig in the past and actually can do that for my current role if I need to. I'm very much customer facing and am either on the phones a lot or emailing and web conferencing with clients a lot. I'm a big believer in creativity in the workplace and what better way than sitting on an island, sand in my feet and laptop in hand coming with new and innovative ways our products can deliver value to our customers. If we actually get some big sales out of it I may even recommend it at work as a regular thing (kidding....maybe).
The great thing is that you guys will get to see some more about the type of solutions we offer our clients and who knows, maybe it's something that can help you too whether you're looking for self-service analytics solutions or trying to find ways to get more value from your data. In the meantime check out my company Space-Time Research.
Anyway if you'd like to check out more about the competition you can see it (here).
The details about my win are (here).
I also did an interview with VMWare (here).
Anyone got any tips or tricks to surviving away from the office and keeping productive then please advise. I actually have some friends in this space, 1 of whom I went to uni with. Check out their company Asian Efficiency and blog (here).
So I'll be off soon but no doubt this blog, and the details about the experience will be up on VMWare and Lifehacker soon. I'll keep you all posted.
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