Aug - 9th
How to work like the masters
Posted at 8:47 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
From LifeRemix: Here are a handful of tips on working from the most popular productivity bloggers on the internet, along with bloggers on organization, the environment and more. Instead of blathering, we will summarize and then allow you to read more if indeed you think a point is up your alley…. (Not only is this [...]
Aug - 6th
Best practices for email – ask the readers
Posted at 6:30 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
Merlin Mann asked the readership on his 43Folders site for email tips. Some of my favorite tips: Don’t use HTML email, EVUR. Not everyone is using Outlook. I’d rather use my own font than your blue 3 point FlySpeck Italic. HTML email is inherently insecure. When I read your HTML email on my Blackberry, I [...]
Jul - 27th
Lost my GMAIL!
Posted at 4:56 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
I tried to change my GMail password, and somehow lost the password in the change. Now, I can’t get into my account. I didn’t set up a secondary account, and so I can’t email myself the password. I have to wait 5 days, then try the “forgot my password” link – then it will ask [...]
Jul - 26th
Merlin Mann’s “Inbox Zero” presentation from Google
Posted at 6:37 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
From Merlin Mann Google Tech Talk: Inbox Zero [tags]GTD, Merlin Mann, 43 folders, Inbox Zero[/tags]
Jul - 25th
Telephone Etiquette – they’re not new inventions!
Posted at 5:43 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
I’ve been involved in telco since the late 80′s, and been paid to deal with phones since 1991. Telephones have been around for significantly longer. I’ve been on a couple of conference bridges recently dealing with technical problems, and couldn’t believe the lack of clue. To Wit: When you’re on a conference call, it’s worth [...]
Jul - 20th
e-mail – 5 sentences or less.
Posted at 1:22 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
Mike Davidson has come up with a great way to reduce inbox insanity: Signing your emails with a note that explains that you only respond with a set number of sentences. http://five.sentenc.es/ As a Blackberry-carryin’ technology manager in 2 or 3 time zones at any given time, I rely too heavily on email. Email has [...]
Jul - 17th
Introducing the Hipster GPS
Posted at 2:35 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
With apologies to Merlin Mann: Your shiny new iPhone doesn’t have GPS, and therefore you must actually push buttons in order to advance to the next leg of your journey. Fear not, dear readers, for I have a solution: The Hipster GPS. Inspired by 43Folders’s Hipster PDA, the Hipster GPS takes a similarly low tech [...]
Jul - 13th
Common Sense meeting tips
Posted at 11:10 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
I work in a connected environment where people have an amazing array on information and groupware tools available to them – video, IM, teleconferencing, LiveMeeting, groupware, workflow and business processing applications, and more. The face to face meeting can seem to be a liability, especially when mismanaged. Some basic principles people forget when managing meetings: [...]
Jul - 12th
Organizational tip – clean out your Outlook inbox!
Posted at 3:33 pm | Filed Under organization / productivity
I been following a combination of David Allen’s Getting Things Done time management system and the Franklin Covey “What Matters Most” time management system for some time – I started Franklin Covey in 1994 and Getting Things Done in 2005. I use Outlook as my Personal Information Manager (PIM) tool, as do most people in [...]
May - 30th
Organization
Posted at 6:36 am | Filed Under organization / productivity
I’m driven at work by a helpdesk system with a task queue. My managerial tasks I still keep in the Outlook tasks folder. One thing I could never get Outlook to do well is a daily task list. I’ve resorted to a wirebound 5 1/2 x 8 binder. The pages are a nice high-contrast yellow [...]
