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Xamun Enabling Consultants to Work Anytime, Anywhere

We can often hear “work-life” balance in motivational posters around the office or it might be mentioned on one of the lifestyle pep talks HR offers but does it remain less in practice, or worse, stay in theory?

Weekends are most looked forward to but from experience it’s not the free time per se we desire. What we look for is essentially the freedom from the constraints of work. Before anything else, yes, we love our work but there are times when we just want hit ourselves on the head for missing a family gathering or skipping out on our children’s first school play. This is where the concept of telecommuting comes.

At this day and age, I’d like to think we are enlightened workers, knowing how to utilize the tools made available for us to our own advantage. Technology and the internet have allowed us to have an alternative work-site where our work comes to us and not the other way around. We are not bounded by physical restraints of the location.

Telecommuting is described as a work arrangement which employees enjoy flexibility in work location and hours. The most common term for telecommute is “work from home” but since it’s operating virtually, we can now absolutely work from anywhere in the world be it home, a coffee shop, or even your vacation house in Rio.

Telecommute has plenty of mention-worthy benefits such as increased job satisfaction, reduced stress from commute time and finances, work interruption, and reduced job related costs. However, one benefit that we like to associate with telecommute is having the quintessence of freedom—freedom to choose when to work, where to work, and who to work with.

The statistics are right on chart as well. According to a CIO Insight report conducted in 2010, U.S. businesses can save an estimated amount of $400 billion due to virtual work policies; $124 billion can be saved from reduced office costs; $31 billion saved through reduced employee turnover annually; and employees will save two weeks of free time by not commuting to an office.

With the technology we have today, transforming a company, even starting your own virtual company is possible. Click here to learn how.

Xamun can help you start a virtual company

Did you know that you can start and operate a virtual company with people you know globally? You can ask them to join you full time, part-time and/or hire freelance experts by just using two tools: Xamun and a PayPal account.

The point is not only to do it but to do it well. With the following steps you can have a virtual company with systems and processes that can be ISO9001 certified:

Step 1 : Get an account in Xamun for Corporate

Step 2: Setup your company and add licenses for adding your other officers and employees.

Step 3: Synchronize your contacts from MS Outlook and invite consultants to join Xamun Freelance. Then associate them with your company on Xamun community.

Step 4: Sign up or use your exisiting a PayPal account to manage billing payments and other expenses.

Step5: Get a Xero accounting subscription and connect with Xamun

Step6: You’re now ready to use Xamun!  Set-up Client, Project, and Resource management applications with your managers to start your business.

Step7: Lean back, relax and watch your business grow while sipping your mojito by the beach!

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Trending on 2012: Social Media Predictions

2011 has been a great year for social media, especially in terms of social media sharing—this generation’s second coming of the word of mouth. Last year, Facebook made 52.1% of web sharing while Twitter came in strong at 13.5% which also showed growth at 576.9%.  Google+ (introduced in the same year) got 373% of growth sharing while Tumblr rose at 1299.5%.

The influence of social media will definitely get stronger for 2012 as new blood and traditional sectors continue on adapting social media to its marketing, branding, and customer support. You can expect the rise of new breakthroughs like Klout. Klout created noise by launching an online application that can be likened to Google’s Analytics. Klout’s feature includes measuring social media influence. Measuring social media influence will determine your true reach, amplification, and the network you influence based on your social activities on the internet.

Social media will also widely affect search results. Earlier this January, Google has changed its search algorithm creating personalized search results based on your social presence on Google+. This has earned negative reactions from other search sites like Bing and website Gizmodo. Even Twitter expressed its disapproval on the move.

People also want control over their online social history. 2012 will have a great demand for tools that will quickly edit photos, wall updates, twitter status, etc. There will also be a demand for a single app that will be able to do all these edits. With that, you can also expect increased collaboration through social media within the work place. File sharing, instant messaging and remote collaboration are some of the elements that will push this need.

In 2011, television and social media started their collaboration. This 2012, watch for its steady interactive growth and visibility. Streaming and live tweeting events and updates will also be on the rise especially now that tablets and iPads are successfully putting their foot down on the market.

Social media games as a form of promotion will also be a boom. We can see these kinds of activities on twitter such winning a promo for being the (insert number) tweet. Discounts are still appreciated but nothing beats on winning an easy challenge.

Are you ready to experience these trends that will roll out on 2012? What are your expectations on 2012’s social media? What are the trends that you have adopted in your strategy?

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Get Satisfaction is known as a customer community software platform that caters to customer-centric discussions and information exchange. In its conception, it showed results of customers wanting to help each other out by answering questions, posting queries and offering suggestions.

As a business solution, Xamun found GetSat to be an intuitive and friendly environment that in turn reflects our philosophy as a company. Such philosophies that mirror ours are: receptiveness to opinions and ideas, transparency in discussions, and providing simplified answers to complex questions. If you’re following our twitter feed, you’ll see that we’ve housed a more elaborate FAQ section on GetSat where you can post follow up questions and discuss best practices on approaching certain roadblocks. The community is up and being maintained by our earnest Support Team and we will continually build other sections such as videos, tutorials, etc.

You don’t have to sign up for Get Satisfaction although it is greatly recommended especially if you like to proactively participate in the community. You can easily log in with your Twitter, Facebook, Google Account, Windows Live, and OpenID and you can already start posting!

We like to hear what you want to see on Xamun’s Get Satisfaction community. We hope to see you there!