Archive for June, 2007

An Unlikely FREE Collaboration Management App

What if you had a completely turnkey solution for managing multi-threaded interactions with teams? What if this application handled scheduling, status updates, RSS feeds from collaborative blogs, group messaging, 1-to-1 messaging, photo and screen capture sharing, and more? What if it permitted secure group communication for people inside and outside of your company? And what if you didn’t have to convince your IT department to install it?

Sounds powerful… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: business2.0, facebook, socialapps, socialnetwork, Technology | 16 comments»

How To Make The Most of Your Real Office Time

Some home workers or telecommuters have to get to the office once in a while. WebWorkerDaily has 5 tips to make the most out of your time with real people.

5. Never underestimate the power of happy hour: What’s the one thing that’s hard to do from your home office? Socialize with co-workers. Take every opportunity to socialize with your colleagues to remind people not only that you work there… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: office | 4 comments»

Late Night Productivity

If you’re like me, you find yourself most productive during the later hours of the day. However, this can cause problems that affect your sleeping habits and what you do during the day.

PickTheBrain.com has a few tips on making your late night activity surges more productive.

Don’t Over Sleep

The biggest temptation with late rising is to over sleep. Too much sleep is a bad thing. Rather than feeling more rested… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: Productivity | 3 comments»

How Not To Suck At Socializing - Do’s & Don’ts

Being socialable is a very easy thing to do, and it shouldn’t be something you’re either good at or not. You can learn to become a more social person - if you want to.

Generally extroverts will have less trouble getting out and talking to new people, but that’s to be expected. Don’t think, however, that outgoing people don’t make mistakes either. There are ways to make life easier while… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: networking, socializing | 131 comments»

13 Things To Make Out Of Old Jeans

You’ve got a pair of old blue jeans. They don’t fit, or you ripped the bottom out at the skate park. What do you do with them?

Simply Thrifty has 13 options, including a purse, bookcover or placemats. The possibilities are pretty much endless if you want to get creative with some needle and thread.

13 Things You Can Make Out of Your Old Blue Jeans - [SimplyThrifty]… » Continue

June 29 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: clothing | 1 comment»

Quick .com Address Bar Shortcut

A friend of mine had an idea for a USB device to extend a ‘.com’ button to the keyboard. This meant all the people typing ‘.com’ into address bars could save a few seconds and buy another silly gadget.

The dream has been shattered. Maybe you know this already, but most browsers already come with a keyboard shortcut for ‘.com’. Not only that, but ‘.net’ and ‘.org’ are also covered… » Continue

June 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: keyboard, shortcuts | 15 comments»

How To Work A Room

Here is an excellent article from Found/Read about networking and working a room of people. This is not only important for gaining contacts for business, but also great fun and worthwhile at parties and the like.

8. Be a good host while you’re someone else’s guest. Say ‘Hi’ to wall flowers. I once saw a tier-1 celebrity work the fringe of the room. He must’ve said ‘Hi’ to 12 wallflowers… » Continue

June 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: networking | 1 comment»

Keep Work Flow By Stopping Mid-Task

When you are timeboxing tasks you are taking specific blocks of time and spending them doing one task at a time. This works really well for writing and staying focused.

You allot, for instance, an hour to write; and then after that hour take a break and, maybe, make lunch or do your washing. When you return to writing you are refreshed and organized. If you write freelance for… » Continue

June 28 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: workflow | 2 comments»

A Guide to Becoming a Better Writer: 15 Practical Tips

If you’ve always dreamed of being the next Hemingway or Vonnegut (or even Grisham), or perhaps if you just want to write better essays for school or posts for your blog … you need to sharpen those writing skills.

Becoming the best writer you can be isn’t easy, I won’t lie to you.

It takes hard work. But it’s worth the effort. And if it seems like an insurmountable task, there… » Continue

June 28 2007 | By Leo | Tagged: Communication, writing | 31 comments»

What To Do When Clients Bail

Pamela Slim from Escape From Cubicle Nation paints a picture of having some ’sure thing’ work set up that suddenly falls flat. The work is gone and there are no prospects, nothing on the horizon and your field seems to be empty.

What do you do?

The three steps the Pamela suggests may seem almost too logical now, but in the midst of an income-less hysteria, things may overwhelm you.

First thing… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: freelance | 4 comments»

The Two F-Words You Should Love

Make Failure and Frustration Your Friends: A History Lesson

We all experience failure and the subsequent frustration. But how you handle those tormentors makes all the difference in your final outcomes. Oftentimes the peak of frustration comes right before a major breakthrough. That’s if you don’t quit. So don’t quit! Instead use the energy behind that frustration to break through to a new level of strategy. Make failure the friend… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By K. | Tagged: failure, famous, frustration, people | 22 comments»

Google Docs Gets A Facelift

More than just looking pretty, Google Docs & Spreadsheets has gotten an organizational facelift.

Now instead of just tagging your documents, you can drag and drop everything into folders. You will also notice anything you’ve tagged previously, is now in a corresponding folder. The Google team have additionally added a Google Suggest-esque seach to your docs - but I’ve, personally, never seen much use in this.

It’s a welcome change to make… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: google | 5 comments»

Why Self Promote?

When you’re not good at telling people how good you are it can be hard to get the recognition you want. People aren’t going to assume you’re the best at something; you’ll have to let them know.

And we’re not talking about bragging. If you’re a freelancer you may already be knowledgeable in the fine art of self promotion and bragging rights, but for many it’s new ground.

Self-promotion is giving… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: promotion | 2 comments»

Strengths-Based Personal Development

Chris Brogan: I’m on a kick. I just finished reading Marcus Buckingham’s, NOW, DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS, and found that I agreed with their premise that working on your strengths is much more productive than throwing time and effort at changing your weaknesses.

One example given was a school report card. If you have one A, two B’s, one C, and two D’s, parents tend to obsess over the negative grades… » Continue

June 26 2007 | By Chris | Tagged: business, coaching, gallop, personaldevelopment, self-improvement, strengthsfinder, tomrath | 5 comments»

Replacing Microsoft With Web Apps

Similar to our Top 10 Microsoft Alternatives post, Mashable.com have put together an ordered list of web-based alternatives to common Microsoft software.

For me, and anyone else who finds themselves working on different computers and wanting to keep as much stuff online as possible, we’ve already explored these possibilities. Mashable go one further and make it easy for everyone to choose which program they want to replace and try… » Continue

June 26 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: microsoft, web2.0 | no comments»

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