If your email password is “password,” or “123123,” you may want to change it immediately to avoid identity theft, says U.S. based Internet security company SplashData.

Via The Vancouver Sun

Internally, it’s been called “volunteering for lazy people.” But when their tongues aren’t planted firmly in cheek, the brain trust behind Canada’s first online micro-volunteering community know their new website will resonate with people who are anything but. Designed for the timestarved social media generation, Koodonation offers a way for Canadians to donate their skills to charities without ever leaving the house – or even putting on pants

Via The Vancouver Sun

October is National Work and Family Month and that may be a great time to request a work-from-home arrangement. Call it a pilot, promising to monitor your productivity and measure your results.

Via The Huffington Post

The concept of working from home has taken a beating during the Great Recession, raising questions about companies’ ability to make the most of the wired world. The setback also throws a bit of cold water on the hopes of mature workers hoping to phase into retirement.

Via TIME.com

Is it time for Canada to introduce a “National Work From Home Day”?  We told you earlier this week, Canadians are spending more and more time in the car, and one of the country’s leading job-search firms is pushing for a day of telecommuting.

Via News1130

Cisco has begun working with the Canadian Province of Ontario to help create a smarter, more connected and sustainable economy for the region.

Ontario and Cisco Canada aim to develop a framework that will drive innovation and sustainable economic development in areas like health and wellness, energy, smart cities, education and economic cluster development. The collaboration is part of the province’s ongoing effort to partner with private industry to promote commercialization, increase research and development and make better use of the region’s broadband capacity.

Via Greenbang.com

To the slew of data indicating that working remotely is no longer a rarity, but becoming commonplace, you can add the latest Work Without Walls findings from Microsoft. Microsoft’s research shows that enabling employees to work remotely is fast becoming not a perk, but a business imperative.

Via Small Business Trends

Most weekday mornings David Herbert, 44, is out the door by 4:15 a.m., hoping to get a jump on the 74-mile slog from his home southwest of Olympia, Wash. to downtown Seattle.

Rather than fight traffic the entire way, the information technology manager drives 45 miles to Tacoma, boards the 5:35 a.m. train for the one-hour ride to King Street Station then takes a bus for the final 20 minutes of his commute to the office.

Via Wall Street Journal

So. Here we are in the day and age of internet; a utility that has created countless benefits- one of which is telecommuting. In case you don’t know, telecommuting is any job in which technology makes the need for a commute to an onsite workplace obsolete

Via Technorati

The Telework Solution, in conjunction with Sacramento State University, is holding a one-day event called the Work Anywhere Symposium 2011 in Sacramento, California on September 22, 2011 geared for federal, state and local government decision-makers interested in exploring the benefits and cost savings associated with implementing a formal telework program.

Via SFGate