by Lisette Sutherland | Sep 17, 2014 | Remote Working, Virtual Friendship
I met Abe at a party in 2006 and we’ve been close friends ever since. We have a lot of things in common, but one of those things is our mutual obsession for music. From the first day we met, we we’ve been sharing music. And we quickly started doing that on...
by Lisette Sutherland | Sep 5, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working, Speaking
Last night was my monthly Toastmasters meeting. I had planned to attend and give my 4th speech from the handbook. The organizers informed me that this night would be a competition… Humorous Speaking! When I protested and said I didn’t know how to be funny...
by Lisette Sutherland | Aug 26, 2014 | Experiments
I was invited to go on a summer holiday in Switzerland with a group of friends. Because the weather was good, we decided to go to a high altitude camping place with minimal facilities. That meant cold temperatures, no electricity, and the ‘2-minute...
by Lisette Sutherland | Aug 13, 2014 | Remote Working
A guest blog post by Florian Hoornaar, Entrepreneur and “Man-friend”. Florian recently went from running a company where his employees worked in the office together, to a company where everyone works remotely. Some days I am super productive. I can work...
by Lisette Sutherland | Jul 17, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working, Work Holiday
A work holiday is where you leave your home and travel to a new place – with the intention of both working and exploring the world at the same time. This recipe is not for the traveler who is always on the go, or for the person who only works in one place....
by Lisette Sutherland | Jun 19, 2014 | Remote Working
Last night, from the comfort of my home in the Netherlands, I beamed in to Las Vegas where Suitable Technologies had a booth at the InfoComm conference. Their last newsletter asked for people who wanted to “party with the beam”. And since Collaboration...
by Lisette Sutherland | Jun 17, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working
Inspired by the stylish outfits of my collaboration partner, Gretchen Wegner, I challenged myself to get out of my comfy clothes, and dress up for 30 days to attempt to answer the questions: Does dressing up matter when we work remotely? To what extent does it affect...
by Lisette Sutherland | Jun 3, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working, Work Holiday
After the first successful work holiday, Florian and I decided to try a new experiment. This time, we wanted to take things to a more minimal level, asking “Can we go deeper into the mountains and still get work done? Do we need to be in a city, or can we still...
by Lisette Sutherland | May 13, 2014 | Experiments, Remote Working
Well, we’re 11 days into the 30 Day Try-on-athon where I try to answer the question: How do the clothes we wear affect our productivity as remote workers? Here are my first “insights”. I’ve tried to have a new outfit every day. And I must say,...
by Lisette Sutherland | May 6, 2014 | Collaboration, Remote Working, Speaking
A few weeks ago, a colleague and I had the opportunity to test drive the Beam Pro from Suitable Technologies. It’s a robot that you can drive around using the arrow keys on your computer keyboard and interact with people – all from the comfort of your own...
