Month: June 2010
The Value of an Unpublished Blog Post
It’s happened to all of us. You’re in the shower, at an event or reading a book when an insight strikes. A brilliant insight, at that. Quick, you must inform the Internet immediately! So you settle in at your computer to peck out your brilliance in the form of aRead More
Cool Technology Fantasies: What’s Your Wildest Tech Wish?
If you could wave your digital wand and create any time-saving, productivity-boosting tool or web app (never mind if it’s technically possible), what would it be? I’d love to find some kind of automatic attachment suggester. Sure, there are some useful email features, like the one in Gmail that willRead More
Self-Initiated Productivity Killers
While we clearly discuss ways to be more productive here at WorkAwesome, we don’t often delve too much into the productivity killers that you bring on yourself. I was thinking about this as I was enjoying the 10th round of solitaire on my iPhone, accidentally-on-purpose avoiding a looming deadline. It’sRead More
10 Premium Professional PowerPoint Themes and Backgrounds
We showcased some nice free PowerPoint templates in our article 20 Free PowerPoint Templates that Don’t Suck. While those were some great templates (and free too), if you are looking for some PowerPoint themes with a professional touch – and don’t mind spending a few bucks – then check outRead More
How Do You Track Deadlines?
Some people keep a giant calendar listing all of their deadlines. Others use online tools like Google Calendar or ReminderFox to keep track of important dates. Whatever your strategy, I think we can all agree that deadlines are pretty darn important. I use an Excel spreadsheet that lists all myRead More
Productivity Web Apps Bundle on the Cheap
The popular lifehacking site, the aptly-named Lifehacker, delivered some fantastic news today that we just had to share! The website AppSumo is offering a bundle of the professional level of web-based productivity apps such as Evernote, Remember The Milk and RescueTime (the last of which was used to calculate theRead More
Competence or Confidence?
Competence or confidence. Which comes first? Do your ever-improving skills grant you confidence? Or, alternatively, is it your confidence that catalyzes the growth of your skills? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? You can certainly have one in spades and suffer a conspicuous lack of the other. SomeRead More