Tag: Communication

How to Best Utilize Your Personal Assistant

Many managers, particularly those new to management do not make the most of having a personal assistant. A well organised, reliable assistant can provide significant value to a manager transitioning into a new division or company. The practical tips below will have a new manager and their assistant performing asRead More

Thea Easterby June 2, 2010 candidates, Communication, featured, hiring, human resources, Leadership, organize, planning, Productivity, time management, Work Life Management, Productivity 6 Comments »

6 Articles That Will Improve Your Writing

(Editor’s Note: This article is a follow-up to a recent piece by WorkAwesome contributor Carl Natale – an article that garnered quite a few comments.) When I listed tips that can help you improve your writing, I wanted to make writing accessible to people who don’t have much confidence inRead More

Carl Natale June 1, 2010 Communication, featured, tips, writing Communication One Comment »

Are You Quitting Facebook?

Facebook has its benefits. It creates a connection of sorts, reconnects old friends and is an excellent social media tool. But it is also a productivity killer when overused. Between email, Twitter and Facebook you can seem to be doing a lot without really doing anything at all. MayRead More

Mike Vardy May 31, 2010 Communication, Disruptions, distractions, efficiency, Productivity, Social Media, Socializing, time management, work flow Productivity 23 Comments »

The iPad: The Ultimate Productivity Device?

Friday was the launch date of Apple’s iPad device outside of the United States and early reports suggest that sales are likely to be as “brisk” as they were when the American public had first dibs. Now that the device has made its way into nine additional countries, many wonderRead More

Mike Vardy May 29, 2010 Communication, flexibility, organize, Productivity Productivity 5 Comments »

PechaKucha: Your Unofficial Exhibit

I only recently learned about PechaKucha, a non-profit organization in Japan that started as a way to give voice to designers and which has turned into the everyday person’s outlet to present, well, anything. On a PechaKucha Night, as one of their presentation gatherings is called, a few presenters willRead More

Ana da Silva May 28, 2010 Communication, Community, design, Events, featured, Gatherings, Hobby, meetings, personal, promotion, Public, Slide presentations, Socializing Communication 8 Comments »

Is Facebook Productive?

With today’s privacy “simplification” announcement over at Facebook which rolls out to all users over the next few weeks (unless you’ve recently quit…or you may not see if you are going to) , it rekindled an old argument: Is there is any productive merit to the web service? A lotRead More

Mike Vardy May 26, 2010 Communication, Disruptions, distractions, Facebook, privacy, Productivity, social, time management, work flow Communication, Productivity 5 Comments »

Open for Business: Google Wave

Last week, Google announced that its real-time collaborative service Google Wave would now be available to all. No more waiting for invites. The question is: Was anyone really waiting for an invite anymore? Is Google Wave all that it’s cracked up to be? Is it a productivity “suck” or aRead More

Mike Vardy May 26, 2010 collaboration, Communication, Productivity, Software, work flow Communication, Productivity 14 Comments »

To Read or To Listen?

Thanks to the dawn of “The eBook Era,” reading is becoming more accessible (if not necessarily more popular – thanks still to television). If you have an iPad or Kindle (or one of the many eReaders in the marketplace) or simply use another mobile device, ebooks are literally in theRead More

Mike Vardy May 24, 2010 book, Communication, Productivity, reading Productivity 7 Comments »

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