Outsourcing Your Life to a Personal Assistant

Prompted by an article by A.J Jacobs called My Outsourced Life I had previously blogged about this very topic in May, but, Ok, so it’s still a strange concept to think about, but it’s actually happening more and more these days . I just found another wordpress blog that actually documents his experiences with outsourcing his life since August 2007.

MyOutsourcedLife is an easy to read an very relatable blog that will give you great ideas and help you with some of the concerns you may have. It will also answer some of the questions you yourself may have about outsourcing even some of the most ordinary of tasks. Take a read, it’s well worth it.

5 Simple Online Organization and Time Management Tools

Ok, so you have simple to-do lists right through to a huge outsourcing project and want to keep track of it all. In my search to find some great tools I discovered these 5 gems.

Backpack

Organize your business and share information with your team

Backpack is an information management and to-do list organizer.

 

Cell Tell

Send Voice Notes from any phone or Skype to your Backpack page

 

Ta Da Lists

It’s easy to-do!

Ta-Da list is the web’s simplest and fastest to-do list maker and is compatible with the iPhone.

Make lists for yourself or share them with others

 

Jott

Capture thoughts, create to-dos and set reminders with a simple phone call.

Compatible with twitter, Blogger and Google Calendar.

 

Campfire

It’s like instant messaging, but designed exclusively for groups and is great for remote teams.

 

Happy organizing!

 

 

 

 

10 Reasons not to Outsource

Jon Symons from Art of Money, Online Business Inside Out is a funny guy and in this flip side, tongue in cheek top 10 list of reasons why he would not outsource, he lets his inner 2 year old go, my favorite is #3 What if the Employee Drives Me Nuts Asking Questions? On a more serious note, there is a great follow up comment from Craig who has obviously discovered the merits of planning ahead and reaping the rewards of outsourcing well. Jon also blogs about other interesting outsourcing topics and all talks about the four hour work week. Oh wouldn’t that be great!

The New Dilbert Web 2.0???

The parody of reality through humor is often the best way to catch people’s attention and spotlight issues or dilemma’s that can, and actually do pop up, here’s a funny comic strip kind of like the original Dilbert, but with a new age Indian twist, follow Raj and his quest to become an outsourcing professional and get good advice too! Too funny…

Outsourcing Facts

No matter what way you look at it, outsourcing for some means taking jobs from one country and giveing them to another, you can see examples of this through the industrial ages and there are always two sides to the arguement. Some believe that outsoursing is terrible for the economy while others say that it has been exaggerated, you be the judge and read the article “Where Are The Facts About Outsourcing?? by Jonathan Hardcastle