Archive for March, 2008

Tool Time Friday | Honey, don’t forget the Milk!

So, you wanna manage tasks quickly and easily?  Get reminded anywhere?  Organize the way you want to?

Then here’s the deal.

MILK has an intuitive interface making managing tasks fun. You can even received reminders via email, SMS, and instant messenger, like, AIM, Skype, and a whole lot more.   Are you a list lover? Got that covered. Into tagging? Ditto.  Want to store notes along with your tasks? Done.

Just take a look.

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Tool Time Friday | How to take the drudgery out of posting/commenting

Stand back! Here it comes. You’re gonna love this one.

I can type about 50 wpm and then have to go back and correct about 25 mistakes. Not bad for an old fart who suffered from aphasia! Cindy, my beloved, can type 3 times as fast and rarely has to revise. I don’t know how she loves me as, obviously, I’m not her type. (Get it?)

Well, I ran across a friend (had to retype ‘friend’ three times) and he told me about this radio station that is just unbelievable.

Yes, it is.

SO, here’s the deal.

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Tool Time Friday | How You Can Become A Happier….

Blogger!

While there isn’t a guarantee on using this method, using this secret yet simple technique will probably make you smile and improve your blogging experience.

And the secret technique is …. STOP READING BLOGS!

Or, at least, some of them.

You shouldn’t dump all your feeds. Just the malicious ones.

You know which ones, you have a couple (or more) of them in your feed list. These blogs are written by people that abuse others, that try to gain popularity by picking fights and others are just irritating. It doesn’t matter how happy you are – these blogs will suck the life out of you.

Here’s how to do it:

1. Open up your blog reader.

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Tool Time Friday | Need a little wisdom?

Imagine reading an article about blogging from  your favorite blogging guru – say Tinu – and say it outloud!

After a couple of sentences you become excited.  Really excited!  The article is really good.  It contains an amazing technique.  A technique that will make you a better blogger.  Using this technique, you immediately whip out a dynamite blog post.  Shazam!

When it’s time to write another post you use the technique again, and again the results are fantastico!  But since you don’t want to be monotonous or boring, you avoid that technique for a couple of weeks/months.  And then a ‘new and improved’ article captures your attention and the older technique is forgotten.

You’re suffering from the “using only the latest writing device” syndrome and that can be a good thing or not.

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Google Day | Eric Schmidt Interview

If you’re following Google from an investor’s type of viewpoint, or CEO interviews interest you, it’s possible you’ll enjoy this. If you’re just interested in Google how-tos, Google techie and search stuff, it may not be for you.

Google Day: iGoogle

The video shows how to set up your iGoogle homepage. Google also provides very simple widgets you can distribute from your site. I made a video about that once… :)

Google Sites Video Walk Through

You’ve probably heard the news about Google Sites. This video tells how it works. Here’s what it says on the You Tube page.

Google Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes creating a team site as easy as editing a document. Use Google Sites to centralize all types of information — from videos to presentations — and share your site with just a few people, your entire organization, or the world.

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How to Tell If Facebook Is Wasteful or Worthwhile, For Your Business


photo credit: anders.rasmussen

This is a continuation of the series I started last week – if you’re still stuck on whether or not Facebook and other social media sites are useful for your business, then you probably want to start with the “Blah Facebook” article.

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