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Making PowerPoint Better

July 31st, 2008 · No Comments

Let’s face it. None of us are really fans of PowerPoint.
The common complaint is that far from adding color and pizazz, PowerPoint hasn’t proven to make presentations any less boring or dull. In fact, many argue that the very reliance on rote slides and sequencing can make speeches and presentations worse.
But like pollution, bad pop [...]

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Tags: Computers Work 4 U · Productivity

Managing Work While On Vacation – Part 2

July 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Recently, we discussed ways to prepare for/manage work during the vacation season.
The website unclutterer.com has another idea for helping you manage your tendency to veg out in front of your computer during holiday’s/weekends. Let’s face it, we’re all champion procrastinators. We sit down with work to do… but an hour later, we’ve read blogs, checked [...]

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Tags: Organization · Productivity

Top 10 Checklist To Prepare For Your Vacation From Work

July 1st, 2008 · 2 Comments

There’s been a lot of talk this year that the vacation season won’t be the same. You hear about families staying home rather than break the bank to pay for the gas necessary to drive to Wally World. Also, I’ve seen a couple of cable news stories about how vacations are increasingly culturally passe [...]

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Tags: Organization · Working 4 The Weekend

When You’re Taking a Sick Day

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments

First, take the sick day. Stay home. You don’t get any bonus points for being a martyr and trying to work through a cold. And you’re just going to get everyone else in the office sick, thereby destroying the productivity of your whole team. You know how much you hate it when the guy in [...]

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Tags: Health · Productivity

Curbing Your Email Obsession On The Weekend

May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here’s an appropriate post for a Monday.
BusinessWeek has a short article about how some companies, in the name of worker and server sanity, are encouraging workers to hold off sending emails over the weekend.
I think we can all relate to coming fresh into the office, only to be deluged by a mountain of emails that [...]

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Tags: Email/Spam Hacks · Productivity

Where Have I Been?

May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Man, was I busy last week! That’s why I grabbed the quick 4-day vacation last month when the opportunity came up. I knew this week was coming.
Even though I’ve turned over the day to day operations at ResumeWriters.com to professional management, in the end, I’m still the bossman, and occasionally that means I have to [...]

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Tags: Productivity

Live Mesh Might Help Windows Not Suck

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I’m usually hard on Microsoft on this blog. But nerdy tech circles today are abuzz at the announcement of Live Mesh from Microsoft. Think of Live Mesh as one ring to sync them all, every device and every file… provided you use Windows.
Apparently, this whole system is not quite ready for immediate use, but [...]

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Tags: Computers Work 4 U · Productivity · Workplace Gizmos

Maximize Your Lunch Hour

April 14th, 2008 · No Comments

Just in time for lunch hour, Readers Digest has a handy list of 15 ways to maximize your lunch hour.
No, it’s not a list of ways to squeeze work into your lunch hour. But it is heavy on ways to eat healthier and with greater ease. And yes, there’s a suggestion or two to get [...]

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Tags: ... Or Hardly Working? · Productivity

Going Topless At Business Meetings A Good Idea For Productivity?

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I remember when wifi and laptops first proliferated in college classrooms. Right away I noticed: no one was paying attention.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, there was plenty going on… plenty of IM discussions amongst the students in the audience.
The same sort of problem has made its way to corporate life: (from the Mercury News, via [...]

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Tags: Computers Work 4 U · Productivity

How To Bind Paper Without Staples Or Clips

April 7th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here’s a real MacGyver office hack for you.
Ever find yourself without a paper clip or stapler handy, but need to quickly and firmly keep a bunch of papers together?
This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to use an origami technique to keep all your papers fastened.
Of course, this technique does require the use of a [...]

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Tags: Productivity · Workplace Gizmos