An entry has been created on Wikipedia to define and help bring attention to the Trailing Spouse phenomena.

Podcasts, talkcasts, netcasts... who cares what you call them, information in the spoken form is now prolific and if like million of others your portable listening device is an iPod, iTunes is the place to get your stuff. I record and host my podcasts on the Talkshoe.com platform but I'm pleased to announce now that the Trailing Spouse Network podcasts can be found and subscribed directly from the iTunes Store.

The recently formed LinkedIn group for Trailing Spouse professionals has generated some interesting connections. Most recently, Bertrand Fouquoire, a fellow male trailing spouse located in France.

Many of you may have noticed the silence of the Ausmerican over recent weeks...well months in fact!
We are on schedule to leave Prague next week, spend some time in Washington DC and experience the Obama inauguration, work, visit family then head to Wellington, New Zealand in March.
Now that our last shipment of belongings has left it's time to reflect on how a change of assignment affects the life and work of the 'trailing spouse'.

Since May 2008 we have slowly and steadily built a network of 100 trailing spouse network members on LinkedIn. If you're not a member yet, hook in here:

The following item was located on the Web. If you can't read the story below click on the link at the end to access the original article.
http://www.homefair.com/articles/family/trailing-spouse.asp?cc=1
 

By Miranda Green
Published: September 18 2008 14:18
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7587b8f8-8303-11dd-907e-000077b07658.html

Well here's a less positive item compared to most of the information I gather. The author raises the point that isolation from the workplace can impede your career.
 
I tend to agree, nothing replaces Face2Face contact, but I still believe we can improve the methods for networking and collaboration in our telecommuting and work from home worlds.
 
Read Robert Mitchells article below

Why telecommuting just might kill your career prospects