New Ideas for Your Office - Where ever it is

Offices today tend to be what you make of them and where you can make them. So to make your office, where ever it is as productive and useful as possible I wanted to share a few products that have caught my eye recently.

BlueLounge has a neat (OK, showing my age with that word, but it does keep things neat) cable holder that can be "stuck" to your desk and hold your cable ends in place ready for you to use. Should minimize the "cable crawl" where you have to crawl around on the floor looking for that iPod cable.

Belkin (a Technology Plumbing favorite) has a nice clamp-on Surge Protector to help manage your power cords by clamping the power strip to your desk. Notice a trend in these ideas of managing wires and cables, true wireless connectivity can't come soon enough :)

I am a big white board fan, but the cost and difficulty of getting and mounting white boards with enough space to work on can be difficult. This brings is to IdeaPaint, which takes the idea of a white board and extends it to your entire room (or at least the walls you want to use). Instead of mounting one or more white boards, you simply apply IdeaPaint to the area you want to use as a write-able surface. This idea is in use at many corporations (including my own), but IdeaPaint brings this concept to the small business or home office where it can be used for both work and family matters. When needed, simply paint over it with either another coat of IdeaPaint or a more traditional wall covering.

Combine these new products with basics of a good office, like a good chair, good lighting and a work surface that positions your work area at the right height will make your "office" work for you and not just be just a place you work.