Displaying All Posts from September, 2009

To Glee or Not to Glee, That is the Question

My name is Mike Vardy, and it took me a long time to get here.

Where’s here, you ask? I could say that it’s WorkAwesome, which would be true. But WorkAwesome for me isn’t just the name of this site – it’s the space I refer to as “here.” The place where work and life meet and coexist. When they flow together, you’re “here.” And it’s probably closer to your childhood than where many people are at right now.
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How to Prepare for a Layoff

It’s not you, it’s the economy. You’re doing everything at work that you need to do. You’re giving it 110 percent. But there are these nasty little signs: there’s a moratorium on office supplies spending. You won’t be reimbursed for taking clients to lunch. There’s another memo about cutting overtime. Everyone else in this industry is cutting staff.

So it looks like you’re going to become an unemployment statistic, but you can’t say for sure. Instead of waiting for some clarity, prepare now. That doesn’t mean stealing pens and sticky notes—there are steps you can take to put yourself in a decent position if a layoff happens. But if you keep your job, you want to be in good standing.

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How to Write an Effective To Do List

Ever since early man first scratched his desire to “Make fire, find food” and “Don’t get eaten” on a cave wall, goal-oriented people have been approaching each new day in a similar fashion, jotting down in one form or another the upcoming tasks that require their attention.

The “To Do List” hasn’t much evolved since those dark perilous days in terms of its primary purpose: the need to plan our day and manage time effectively, but there has been a progression in terms of its complexity.

Today, the need for better to do lists — from how to write them, what should and should not appear on them, and most importantly, how to get the most from them — has never been more important.

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Make Your Desktop Wallpaper Look Like a Desktop!

Staring at a computer screen is made marginally better if you have a nice desktop wallpaper to fill up the empty space. That’s why we’ve put together our very own WorkAwesome wallpaper set to make your desktop look kinda like an actual desktop! We’ve got lots of sizes and and nice empty space in the middle for all your icons and files. If you’re an iPhone user we’ve got a wallpaper for you too, and if you’re on a large iMac there’s a convenient space for the dock!

Speaking of Mac wallpapers, if that’s your cup of tea be sure to check in with our sister site Mac.AppStorm’s set of 50 Mac Desktop Wallpapers and 50 iPhone Wallpapers. Click Here to Read Article …

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It’s Like Work … But More Awesome

The best way to make work feel like not work is to do something you enjoy, and do it damn well. That’s why we’ve created WorkAwesome, a blog for people who want to be awesome at work. After all, if you’re going to spend eight hours a day doing something, you may as well put some heart into it!

Over the coming months our crack editor Joel Falconer and his team of uber worker writers will be publishing articles on everything from how to make a Powerpoint presentation that rocks to how to behave at the office Christmas party! We’ve got a brand new comic strip coming from the extremely talented NC Winters, and we’ll be opening up for contributions so the anybody and everybody can share their tips on how to be more awesome at work! Click Here to Read Article …

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