Here is this weeks edition of Home Office Tips and Hints. This edition will be longer than most as I want to make up for taking some time off last week from doing my regular post over the weekend.

From Enterprise Nation we get Flourishing in the home office. The list included of these basic needs to flourish:

• Divide your daily to do list into doing (the daily’routines of your business), striving (towards goals) and fun
• Create rituals before and after work to give you a sense of division’between home and work
• Create a place in the home that is set aside for work only
• Join a trade association or community group; find bright,’interesting people from all walks of life with whom you can share ideas
• Make friends with the competition and form networks.

Home Office Voice discusses a topic that was batted around on twitter this last week and that is Generation Free. And while you are on Martin’s site, you will notice his new design coming right along.

And you know I can’t do a Tips and Hints without mentioning some blog post about blogging, so to keep that up, Is Content Really that Important comes to us from Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.

Marketing is something even the home office warrior needs to think about. And video marketing [is] spreading like wild fire as stated by Home Office Women. We are in the process here in our home office, working on and considering some video podcasts and well as podcasts. Be watching for those sometime soon.

One trend in working and an office that in my opinion relates well to those who work from a home office is co-working. Anywired, one of those blogs you should be reading, had a post called Behind the Scenes in a Co-working Environment. I will be doing a series very soon on co-working here on home office warrior. Co-working may be a way for those of us who work at home to have the best of both worlds. It could give us a chance to interact with other like minded people without renting a full time office space downtown.

How to rock retirement when you’re self-employed is also from Anywired and something we also need to be mindful of as home office warriors.

With gas bouncing around $4.00 per gallon, Undress4Success makes a valid point in Oil prices make telework a pivotal strategy.

How many times have you struggled with maintaining balance in your home office. managing & balancing time in your home office comes from Home Office organizer one of the business channels at Sparkplugging.

Like some, I do share my office with the second part of G2 Web Media. What is great, the office is large enough there are really no issues to worry about. But there are some who might have some “boundaries” issues to work out. Also from Home Office organizer is getting it together: working in a shared home office.

Battling distractions while you work: top tips from twitter is provided this week from Work from Home Momma. Not only does it provide some great tips. The post is just one more example of the power of twitter. If you are not on twitter, you should be and you can follow me here.

Do you use VoIP? I use Skype in my home office as my main outgoing phone line. 30 ways to use VoIP that you’ve never heard of is from VoIP News. Good stuff and great site you should keep in mind to answer your questions about VoIP.

If you are struggling with finding that perfect business you can do from your home office, Home Biz Notes ask four questions to help you find your dream business.

Interesting post from Chief Home Officer, the cult & culture of the soloist home officer. Cult, are we a cult? As Jeff says, not cult, but culture. We do work differently when we work from a home office. I know I do. It is not unusual to find me in the office very early in the morning before any one is up in my house. And it is also common to find me working late.

To continue on the theme above about balance and work, balancing life and working at home gives us more tips and hints. It is brought to us from Earning.Living.Saving. Check it out.

Have I mentioned twitter again in the last couple of paragraphs? No. Well here is another reason to be using twitter. twitter replacing traditional RSS feeds? Home Biz Blogger is asking the question and I am going to say, it is to a point replacing RSS. I do get some of the feeds I read from twitter. And pushing your new blog post feeds to twitter is just one more example of how you can use this great social networking tool to promote your blog and in turn your business.

Social networking and a small town business - why bother hits home for many of us who work in a home office and also for those who live in a small town. This is a great read from Successful and Outstanding Bloggers.

And if you need more to read this week, make sure you visit 18 amazing articles to help you work at home from Sparkplugging.

Do you have a feeling of loneliness working from home? Freelance Folder gives us some help with working form home - 5 tips to avoid that dreaded loneliness. One thing I do when I feel I need to be around others is visit my favorite coffee shop. There are ways. Don’t dump the home office because you have this issue.

I don’t own a fax machine in my home office and you don’t need to either. Use email fax capabilities from your home office provides some brief points to consider.

Connecting to the Internet on the go is always on most of our minds. And working from a home office certainly does not keep us from needing to consider this. As mentioned above, I get out of the home office and go to the coffee shop. Those of us who work at home, lead what I like to call a “connected life”. We have to be connected almost 24/7. The New York Times article gives some ideas on how to stay connected.

Twitter, there is that darn word again. Twitter guide provides some good links to information on using twitter. And there is a lot of stuff for the beginner too.

That is it for this week. Get me your suggestions for links for next week’s edition. And if anyone would like to host the Home Office TIps and Hints…Links on their own blog, let me know. It might be fun to spread this around and turn it into our own little “carnival”. We won’t call it that, but you get the idea.