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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Productivity'
7 Ways to Save Time At Work
February 11th, 2010 · View Comments · Productivity
Tags:email·Progress Reports·Project management·status reports·Tim Ferris·Timesaver·Video
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.
Tags:Brainstorming·Crowdsourcing·Darren Rowse·Innocation·Mind Mapping·Searching·Strategy·trends
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 [...]
Tags:Microsoft Word·Productivity·Spelling·Text replacement·Time-·Time-saver·Tips·writing
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.
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?
Tags:Alternative·Beijing·Chinese language·English language·health·Produc·Productivity·Qigong·Tai Chi·Tai chi chuan·Time-saver
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?
Tags:Advertising·Business·Call centre·Customer Management·Goal·management·Product·Public relations·Technical support·Usability·Users
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 to [...]
Tags:Business·Chris Brogan·E-mail·Gmail·Harvard Business Review·Hotmail·Prod·seth godin·Time-·Time-saver·Time-wasting·Yahoo
What is the ’search, compare, verify’ generation?
October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · Productivity
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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 I turn [...]
Tags:Advertising·Battery·Business·Consumer·content management·Customer service·Marketing·Mobile Phone·Strategy·Technology·user interface·Vodafone
How to Blog Almost Every Day – Use the Inverted Pyramid story format
October 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
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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 to get [...]
Tags:Advice·Alltop·blog·blogging·Chris Brogan·Creative Commons·Delicious·Flickr·Techniques·Tennessee State University·Tips·wikipedia·writing
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.
Tags:4 Hour Work Week·Checklists·download·Productivity·Tim Ferris·Time Saving·Tips
How to Get Your Email Answered
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone.
He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would take [...]
Tags:Chris Brogan·email·Facebook·google·google docs·Google Spreadsheets·Productivity·social media·Social network·Time-wasting·Twitter
