If you are working from home, office, coffee shop or even on the road, here are some pretty cool productivity tips. 3 of my favorites are:

In coffee shops I have a few rules: Try to face a wall and never a busy street, and order a small drink to minimize bathroom breaks. — Corina Kellam, Founder of Life History Books Ltd.

Plan on wasting time. Instead of keeping unnecessary windows open (chats, blogs, twitter, etc.) all day long, work intently with no distractions for a given time, then give yourself (significantly shorter) blocks of time to be unapologetically unproductive. — Matthew Hall, Jr. Consultant at Mutual Mobile

Do NOT check your e-mail for the first 45 minutes that you are in the office in the morning. Don’t even open it. There are never meetings at that time and most people are settling in and reading their e-mails, so it’s a mellow time (not too much talking, few drive-bys, hallway conversations and urgent requests rarely happen). — Amanda Feifer O’Brien, Marketing Manager at Firmenich Inc.

Do you have any particular ones that you use?

Mashable ran an interesting post showcasing several online tools for managing time differences. If you are a web worker these would be really helpful to you.

Conducting business with international clients can mean more than just a language barrier — there can be a time barrier as well.

With 24 standard time zones, it can be overwhelming to keep track of all your clients’ business hours, and scheduling tasks across time zones can be a challenge.

If your business depends on knowing what time it is everywhere, don’t worry, as there are plenty of free online tools to help you coordinate, and ensure you never unwittingly call a client at 4 a.m.

Check out the tools here.

Out of these http://everytimezone.com/ looks really cool and maps to your local time zone automatically!

Some interesting points from ‘Cloud Adoption: The Difference Between Small & Large Companies‘ on Sandhill.com…

Another interesting pattern emerges when you look at the really small companies with less than 100 employees. A recent survey by Spiceworks Inc. resulted in 1,500 global responses from their Voice of IT Market Research Program. In this survey, nearly half of the responses (47 percent) are from businesses with fewer than 20 employees, while 24 percent are from businesses with 100 or more employees. The data shows that 14 percent of SMBs are currently using cloud solutions and another 10 percent plan to deploy cloud services over the next six months. The smallest SMBs (companies with less than 20 employees), high-tech companies, and companies in emerging economies are on the leading edge of the adoption curve. Though the user base is smaller today, the adoption rate appears to be growing.

Our research found that SMEs are twice as likely to move their core business-critical services to the cloud as large enterprises (25 percent versus 12 percent)

Cloud adoption is catching up with the hype. For example, some SMBs have up to 80 percent of their services in the cloud.

No doubt that almost everybody will be using cloud services in the near future. Though, the adoption by small businesses is going to lead the way.

A few small fixes…

Fixed: Logo flicker issue in Chrome & Safari
Some user logos seemed to be flickering when loaded using Chrome and Safari browsers. This issue has been fixed and all logos should load and display perfectly fine now.

Fixed: Loading a new project from a template
A silent project that was loaded from a template was treated as an email-enabled project.

Fixed: Milestone sorting for ongoing milestones
Milestones sorting was displayed randomly for ongoing milestones (milestones that don’t have a deadline). We now sort these milestones by their id numbers - the latest added milestone will be top of the ongoing section.

A quick video showing how you can view all the overdue Projects & Milestone with their responsible person and navigate to those pages from the project listing page in your DeskAway account…