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I’ve written before about the crop of new (very often free) alternatives to Microsoft Office. I think it’s pretty universal that we all have had it up to here with Word and especially Outlook, but what can you do? Your work servers support what they support, and if everyone else in the world uses Office, […]

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I’m definitely in a hardly working mode today. Since I’m sitting around waiting for the live broadcast from MacWorld, I’m in a time wasting/tech state of mind. (At least I don’t have to liveblog Steve-o’s address like the poor souls at Gizmodo)
I started looking for resources to help you browse at work without your boss […]

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Ever since it opened itself up to the non-collegiate world, Facebook’s growth has been exponential. Clearly trying to out-LinkedIn LinkedIn, Facebook now allows professional and even company-specific groups for networking.
But one problem has been preventing Facebook from becoming the dominant professional networking platform: a lot of companies block Facebook.
The majority of corporate firewalls are set […]

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If you’re a lazy typer like me, then sometimes the spell checker is not your best friend.
Once, in a major college term paper situation, I meant to type “gentle” and instead typed “gentile.” This gave new meaning to the phrase I was typing: “gentle interrogation techniques.”
How many times have I meant to type “public” but […]

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I’ve got a more comprehensive organizational post in the works, but I’m in the middle of preparing my mobile office for a two week trip to Florida. I needed to bring my Firefox links with me on my laptop for blogging purposes. I didn’t know how to do it. But I figured it out.
So, I […]

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Chances are, if you’re on a social network at work, it’s probably LinkedIn. Facebook is making major strides toward eating their lunch (I’m mulling a post on this in the near future) but for now, with a recently announced 17 million users, LinkedIn still rules the business networking roost.
This morning LinkedIn announced a slew of […]

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For those of you that hadn’t heard, some of the big news this week was that Gtalk, the Google chat application, in now inter-operable with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM, if you’re hip).
Gtalk is available as a standalone downloadable client, but it’s also built into the Gmail online client, as you’ve seen if you’ve logged into […]

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Another thing to look forward to (dread?) this time of year are performance reviews and year-end bonuses.
I’ll have a post on the year-end bonus later in the week. In the meantime, K. Stone over at DumbLittleMan has beaten me to the punch with a great post about how to get a positive annual review in […]

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Dear reader:
Are you like me? Are you sticking with XP instead of upgrading to Vista? (I even quickly bought a new desktop from Dell this summer so I could still nab one with XP on it). Ain’t broke, not gonna fix it kind of thing, eh?
Excellent. My readers are good-looking and intelligent.
Now.
You know […]

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I’ve just run across a great blog for the first time: The Public Speaking Blog.
It’s exactly what you hope it would be: a comprehensive examination of all techniques Toastmaster-y.
I found an exceptional post on giving presentations that is a must-read for all working professionals who occasionally need to stand and deliver. It’s about how to […]

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