Archives for the 'Design' Category
100 conseils pour bâtir un blog à succès [2/2] [C'éclair!]
Voici donc la deuxième partie de mes 100 conseils pour bâtir un blog à succès. Si vous pensez à d’autres, n’hésitez pas à compléter le tout dans les commentaires!
Organisation et gestion du temps
52. Concentrez-vous sur les tâches les plus rentables : votre temps est précieux, alors concentrez-le sur les tâches qui vous rapportent le plus [...]
Stigmergy - Making Your Mark [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Dr. Pascal Venier points to an article by Francis Heylighen and Clément Vidal (2007) Getting Things Done: The Science behind Stress-Free Productivity. Well, I took one look at that title and knew I had to have it. The summary of this white paper is:
Allen (2001) proposed the “Getting Things Done†(GTD) method for [...]
New Calendar Download [HD BizBlog 1.2]
One of my readers asked for some help this week in designing a small calendar for their 3″ x 5″ size planner. They were looking for a 2-page per month size calendar with blanks for the dates, and also some lined note pages.
So I put together a new download for the HD BizBlog Shop:
Here is [...]
Capture Your Ideas with a Bookmark [HD BizBlog 1.2]
Ever since I read Steve Leveen’s Little Guide To Your Well-Read Life, I have become a fan of writing notes to myself in the margins of my non-fiction books. I have found that it helps me to remember what I have read, and leaves a “tag” if I need to go back and refer to [...]
Thoughts on LEAN and the GTD Workflow, Part II [HD BizBlog 1.2]
In the first post of this series I introduced the first three of the five basic steps of the LEAN methodology:
Define the Value to the Customer
Map the Value Stream
Introduce Flow
Introduce Pull
Perfection
In this post we will discuss the concepts of Pull and Perfection. Jens Poder has already described the idea of pull, which I will quote [...]
Building My DIY Planner [HD BizBlog 1.2]
This is my current Organizer, as it looks at the end of the two-month beta-test of the custom Calendar Pages -
My strategy behind this design is to create a system for managing the Hard Landscape with a tool that is just as conducive to planning (putting information into the calendar) as it is to implementing [...]
How Not to Do Marketing in the New Economy [HD BizBlog 1.2]
Watch this video and learn how to take a clean, simple design and make it into a Product: (via Toddand.com)
Isn’t it remarkable that people still think that more is more?
Bonus video: If you have an extra four minutes today (and a well-developed sense of humor) watch this. And don’t blame me, I didn’t make it!
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Why Multimedia is a Dirty Word [HD BizBlog 1.2]
A new article from Al Ries in AdAge magazine describes the problem with attempting to extend your company’s brand into the digital realm, as if it were just another “outlet”:
Line extension is rampant in the media. Take Talk magazine, or rather Talk Media, a company founded in 1998 by Tina Brown and financed by Miramax, [...]
Print Your Own Calendar - Project Pics [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]
I have loaded some new pics to Flickr, showing the different sections of the Organizer as it goes throught the beta-test.
The full post is not ready, but you can check out the work-in-progress here.
Original post here: Stephen
New Ways of Looking at What We Know [Hidden Dragon BizBlog 1.2]
There is a discussion going on about the future of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) that was started by Eric Mack, and carried on by Michael Sampson and Pascal Venier. The good stuff, as often is the case, is in the comments. As a relative newcomer to the discussion, I am fascinated by the direction Eric [...]