Archive for August, 2006

Great Podcast Resource: One Minute How-To

I had the pleasure of doing an interview with George Smyth at his site, OneMinuteHowTo.com. It’s pretty cool. He interviews different people about a simple how-to task, and gives you one minute to get it explained. I did mine on “How to manage projects like a rockstar.” But look at a partial list:

Item #49: How To Manage Projects Like A Rock Star
Item #48: How To Get What You Want
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August 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: DIY, george+smyth, howto, mp3, oneminutehowto, Podcast, show | 2 comments»

Experience Building

The difference between Starbucks and McDonalds from a coffee perspective is what? The experience. Starbucks wants almost $4 for a cup of coffee near me, and McDonalds wants $2. Starbucks wants $6 an hour for wifi, and McDonalds wants $2. It’s far more cost effective for a road warrior to sit in a McDonalds doing their internet chores.

But would you tell a client you’re sitting in a McDonalds? Would… » Continue

August 31 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: events, experience, hacks, howto, Management, meetings, planning, social+engineering | 7 comments»

6 Tips for Working at Home With Children

Working from home is great, you could have more opportunities to be with your family, you can save time to commute etc. it may become a bit tricky where your work and life are mashed together. Dane Carlson from Business Opportunities Weblog has sent me a post on his tips on create a better environment and situation for your work and your family:

Create an office separate from the main

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August 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: home, work | 8 comments»

Getting a job through a recruiter

As I have chance to hire people through recruiters, I usually use them only if I couldn’t find a good candidate at all from my channels and advertisements. From my perspective, hiring through recruiting has much more restrictions than hiring directly. The complexity increases as you have to deal with one more person who are demanding on your time and attention.

So is it bad a candidate to go through recruiter… » Continue

August 31 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: hiring, job | 1 comment»

An Environment for Learning

Let’s say you decide to go back to college.

This time, you are going to do it on your own terms. Not because you have to, but because you want to. You are older and wiser now, and you have the ability to look back, taking advantage of the fact that hindsight is 20-20.

However, we’re not going back in time; you are making this decision as one for today. You have… » Continue

August 31 2006 | By Rosa | Tagged: attitude, choice, environments, hindsight, learning, motivation | 8 comments»

Tips from Memoirs About Illness

It’s somewhat interesting that the Happiness Project is posting about illness today, but when you read some of the tips Gretchen has pulled from her reading, you’ll understand better how it fits. Here are the first few:

For long periods of suffering, take it day by day. Don’t anticipate.
Being gregarious and upbeat wins you more attention from the staff. This isn’t fair, but it’s true.
A lot of living goes on

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August 30 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: care, Communication, coping, healthcare, illness | no comments»

Greatest Tool #9: Big Ole Rock

What is more useful than a nice hefty rock? You can almost always find one the perfect size (which is just a little bigger than your fist). Yes it’s primitive but it sure makes an “I’m all business” statement.

Look down this list and tell me you haven’t used a big ole rock for at least a few of these tasks.

Body Work. Banging a dent

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August 30 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: tips, tool | 3 comments»

The Anxiety of Getting To Zero

Too many emails leads to pain and stress - it makes you less productive.

The only way to be productive on emails is to control it with a workflow and system.

M-E-L at Ishbadiddle logs his way of clearing up his of doing it. Even though he demonstrates this with the focus of Outlook, the framework can be apply across different email clients:

… For many of us, one of the hardest… » Continue

August 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: email, gtd, Productivity | no comments»

Top 10 Tips for Growing Old Slowly and Gracefully

Good health leads to quality life. Growing old is normal, but reduce the speed of aging is a good thing to do. Brad Bahr has listed his top 10 tips which can keep one young. He talks about topics like smoking, exercise, meal intakes and tips related to pets and plants:

5. Get a pet. Pet owners tend to visit the doctor less, survive longer even after a heart attack… » Continue

August 30 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: aging, health | 4 comments»

Post Conference Follow-Up Hacks

I’m coFounder and Organizer of PodCamp, which is coming up in a week or two, and I just got an email from a fellow podcaster asking me about how I’ll be planning to manage the influx of business cards, ideas, and conversations/follow-up this kind of an event will bring with it. I thought this might prove useful to anyone attending conferences or events in the coming months (as… » Continue

August 29 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: conference, conferences, hacks, howto, networking, tips | 8 comments»

Greatest Tools #8: Bailing Wire

Number 8 on the greatest tools of all times list that most versatile of all binders, Bailing Wire. Here are a few of its most common uses.

Key retriever. Combine a length of bailing wire with a sticky piece of chewing gum to retrieve the key that fell through the sewer grating.
Chum Tie. Grind up your bait fish in a gallon milk jug with the top cut off and freeze it

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August 29 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: tips, tool | 1 comment»

The 2 P.M. Test: Make Your Work Day Shorter

Tory Johnson says if you look up the clock - it’s 2pm and you are thinking of ways to make it quicker, you definitely are not enjoying your work time. She gives out couple of ways to transform yourself to enjoy your work hours more.:

- Have a candid conversation with your boss about taking on more challenging assignments that inspire you to work harder.
- Spend time with colleagues who… » Continue

August 29 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: job, Management | no comments»

Next Generation Recipe Sharing

One day, my Mom sat down with me and shared a dozen family recipes from both sides of the family. In there are things like tortierre (sp?) pie, a famous French pork pie with potatoes and enough cholesterol to kill you after one slice. There’s also my favorite date balls (dates, rice, and coconut, but I forget the rest). A dozen whole recipes that came off smeared, dirty, bent and… » Continue

August 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: food, nick+senzee, recipe, sharing, software, web2.0, website | 1 comment»

Mail, BrainDump, Mail, Do

I’m trying something new. I haven’t been doing a great job of making the switch between my second life (things I do for myself and for passion) and my day job (that which pays me). When I sit at the desk for my day job, I’m consumed by the million things that need doing for the second life.

I tried doing a brain dump, but that alone wasn’t really working… » Continue

August 28 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: grasshopperfactory, gtd, organizing, planning, timemanagement | 1 comment»

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