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Fear of Success: What will happen if you succeed?

June 29th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity

He said to me, ‘if you’re going to fail, fail fast.’ Have you heard this line before? I’m sure you have and if not probably some variation. Everyone is the room agreed with him. They’d made a mistake. The project tanked. Time to move on.

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37 Tips to Increase Your Business Writing Productivity

June 14th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity

Post by Ivan Walsh. Follow me on Twitter. Working in China means more business writing and less technical writing, especially proposal development, web marketing case studies and white papers. As a few of the folks I hang out with on LinkedIn are also moving into business writing, I thought I’d add a few tips for [...]

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9 Ways to Create Super Strong Passwords

May 20th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity

This week we look at how to setup a strong password and test its strength. I’ll also look at the type of mistakes people make when creating passwords and how to avoid these. Remember to change your passwords on a regular basic, for example, every six weeks. If you’re planning on opening a PayPal or Ebay account to buy and sell goods online, then I think you should read this. There’s no point making all this money, if someone can walk in a run off with your profits.

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10 Incredible Adobe PDF Hacks

May 16th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity

If you use Adobe PDFs to create technical guides, confidential reports and other business documents, then these ten PDF tips are for you. The web has many free PDF converters out there. That’s fine. But Adobe Distiller has some advanced features if you want more control of your documents, for example, increase download speed, password [...]

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Productivity Tip: How To Make Friday Your Busiest Day And Get The Rewards

March 20th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity

Friday is my busiest day. Most folks power down and go into weekend mode. Not here! Ask yourself, ‘why do I go down a gear on Friday?’, ‘How does this benefit my career?’ Ok, let’s be honest. We do this because others do it. Right? This is a high-risk way to manage your career. You’re letting others determine how you behave. And it damages your career in many, many ways. Here’s an alternative approach.

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7 Ways to Save Time At Work

February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity

Last week we looked at how much time you spend working every week. We looked at how Christine managed her time and tried to find ways to improve her productivity. The key here is to step back, see where you’re spending/wasting time and then find practical ways to address this. What works for Christine may [...]

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Using Google’s Wonder Wheel for Mind Mapping & Generating New Ideas

February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · Business Model, Google, How To, Productivity

Google’s Wonder Wheel is Search and Mind Mapping combined together. The Wonder Wheel was introduced in May 2009 and is one of Google’s best kept secrets. This search/mindmapper tool shows search results in a Wheel with different Spokes for each associated search result. Fantastic tool for brainstorming, studying trends, and idea generation.

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How To Write Blog Posts Faster & Save Your Fingers From Exhaustion

January 18th, 2010 · View Comments · How To, Productivity, Tips

What to know how to type faster and get those blog post online quicker? I use the AutoCorrect feature in Word to speed things up. Most writers use it to correct typos and clean up your document AFTER it’s written. That’s fine but it’s more productive it you can correct the document AS YOU WRITE [...]

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Janet Swisher on FLOSS Manuals, Open Source, and Book Sprints

November 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Productivity, Social Media, Technical Writing

Want to know how to run an open source ‘book sprint’? Janet Swisher does.

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How Tai Chi Can Make You a Better Technical Writer

November 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Career, How To, Productivity

Does technical writing give you a headache? I spend 10 hours a day working on user guides, online help and other such delights. One of the hazards of working these long hours is migraine, back pain and literally a pain in the neck. So, what’s this got to do with Tai Chi?

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Is this true? The goal of a project is to make the user successful!

November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Career, How To, Productivity

Ben says: “The goal of a project is to make the user successful at what he wants to accomplish. Go ahead, read that previous sentence a few times. It’s one that would do well to sink in.” Is this true?

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How To Make 200 Extra Minutes Every Week & Leave The Office Before Everyone Else

November 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Productivity

Looking for time-saver tips? This works. I get between 60-200 emails every day. 60 is low. Once I got over 480. As I run my own business, every minute is counted. Even when I worked 9-5, I kept a tight control of my email. If you don’t control it, it’ll control you. What I want [...]

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What is the ‘search, compare, verify’ generation?

October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Productivity

Image via Wikipedia Gerry Mcgovern Success on the Web is not about making customers do what you want. It is about helping customers do what they want. My Lenovo laptop has great battery life. The battery lasts for 650 thousand million years if I don’t turn it on, and for 65 thousand million years if [...]

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How to Blog Almost Every Day – Use the Inverted Pyramid story format

October 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity

Image by jonathansin via Flickr Do you want to update your blog every day? Chris Brogan provides this framework for writing a blog post (almost) every day. He adds that while it’s not easy, once you develop the right habits, they stick with you. I’m writing quite regularly now, but it took me several years [...]

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4 Hour Work Week – Downloadable Checklists to be More Productive

October 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Productivity

I avoided reading Tim Ferris’ blog, the 4 Hour Work Week, for the longest time. My mistake! If you want to learn how to save time and be more productive, this blog is gold-dust. It’s a cut above the rest as it backups up his philosophy with real case studies that demonstrate how his methods work.

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