As director of product marketing at Adobe, I speak with customers everyday about how they can better maximize their productivity in the workplace. They often tell me they spend more time figuring out how to do their jobs than actually doing them. Regularly faced with the staggering volume of information, they have difficulties keeping everyone on…

CNet’s Webware 100 singles out 100 web-based applications for excellence in 10 categories. Unlike some other awards which recognize new services, the  Webware 100 are selected as “best-of-breed” from among all the applications currently available. The upshot is, there’s some pretty good apps on the list! Here, then, are my thoughts on the 10 selected…

If you’re one to work away from home and like things accessible while mobile, you’ve already changed to an email client like Gmail, and are on your way to creating a completely online office. Filing and organizing paper documents is a chore and takes up space so you may be digitizing them already via your…

The forth in a series of 10 myths to help you see clearly past the myths to get things done! Myth: You should handle papers and view emails only once. Reality: You should handle papers and view emails an efficient number of times. In some cases an assistant should handle them for you and you should never…

Managing papers is tough – it maybe the biggest obstacle on the road to be organized. What is the possible exit from this dark tunnel? Jason Hunter at ONLamp shares his way – by virtualizing his document management. It means that every paper documents are scanned and converted into digital formats, and kept in an…

Ric Edelman, a financial planner, suggests a list of financial/legal documents that you need to keep and what you can shred. He categorizes into five groups: originals you rarely need, originals you sometimes need, other documents, tax documents and investment documents. He suggests for each document on What to Keep, Where to Store, and When…

Neil Tortorella shares his view on the usefulness of proposal of getting projects, especially in design and consulting-oriented areas. Neil identifed 13 sections that worth to write about. They are: 1. Executive Summary 2. Current Situation 3. Project Goals 4. Competition 5. Audience 6. Creative & Marketing Strategies 7. Process 8. Fees & Reimbursements 9. Billing & Schedule 10. Conclusion 11. Company Overview 12. Clients 13. Awards Very neat…

Related to the last post, I found out Jeffrey Phillips has similar brainstorming post on document organization. He said: ‘But while we are generating all these documents, we very rarely consider how they will be stored, recalled and/or reused.’ – Very true, or we are not consider how we store our document because sorting needs…