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Blog Reading and Sharing: Power Tips for Google Reader
If you’re an avid blog reader, chances are you manage your reading through Google Reader. If you don’t, you probably should (we even advised you as much in our feed reading tips). It’s one of the most popular RSS feed readers around, in part because of its ubiquity, but alsoRead More
Monotasking: Focus on One Thing at a Time
No matter how much you have piled up on your desk, and regardless of how bad-ass a multitasker you are, you can only do one thing at a time. Remembering this is one sure-fire way to increase your productivity, ease your mental load and knock things off your to-do listRead More
11 Productivity Tools for Road Warriors and Telecommuters
I love working from home. I don’t miss the commute or the distractions from coworkers. It’s a pretty good gig. But at least once a week, I take this show on the road. I have a meeting in town and then need to find a place to set up shopRead More
7 Power Tips For Productive RSS News Feed Reading
I believe RSS is one of the best inventions of the last decade. RSS news feed reading has made consuming information on the web so much easier. You can read content from hundreds of blogs and sites from a single interface. No need to visit them separately. RSS is extremely usefulRead More
How to Improve Productivity: 6 Lessons from Great Software
Well-written software applications are fast, powerful and flexible: They are remarkably disciplined, following a rigid set of self-imposed rules. Their meticulous organization allows them to keep track of millions of bits of information, and their multitasking ability is unmatched. As air breathing, flesh-and-blood work processors, we could learn quite aRead More
6 Tips for More Effective Email
We’ve covered tips for managing email overload, but the reality is that many of us are partially responsible for our own email insanity. If we sent fewer email messages and made sure that the ones we do send are clear and effective, then we’d have fewer incoming messages to read,Read More
Rock Your Next Networking Event: How to Network Effectively
So now that you have cool business cards, bet you can’t wait to use them. They’re just burning a hole in your shirt pocket. Who wants one? They’re free to the first 250 people you meet. There’s a bunch of people eager to get their hands on your cards. YouRead More