Archives for the 'Work 2.0' Category
Productivity tools from the past [Productivity in Context]
Stephen, thanks for the opportunity to write on your blog. I may not be an expert on personal productivity, but I’ve been around long enough to know this: no matter how unproductive you may feel at the moment, 10, 20, 30 years ago you would have been in much worse shape! [...]
5 Tips for Improving Productivity with a Virtual Assistant [Productivity in Context]
Virtual Assistants are a hot topic right now, and Mark Shead of Productivity 501 has some tips for those of you that may be thinking about taking that plunge:
5 Tips for Getting a Virtual Assistant
1. Expect to spend some money.
If you don’t have money set aside you’ll probably get frustrated when something takes longer [...]
Do You Need a Virtual Assistant [Productivity in Context]
My friend Patricia Mayo, who writes the excellent blog ComHacker, has just published an e-book (the Crystal Edict E-book) on how to find, train, and get the most out of a Virtual Assistant. I’ll let her tell you a little about it:
Here’s a short list of a few things my virtual assistant is doing for [...]
The New Standard for Going in to Work [Productivity in Context]
Seth’s Blog: The new standard for meetings and conferences
If you’re a knowledge worker, your boss shouldn’t make you come to the (expensive) office every day unless there’s something there that makes it worth your trip. She needs to provide you with resources or interactions or energy you can’t find at home or at Starbucks. And [...]
Productive Career Advice [Productivity in Context]
I will be giving a presentation later today about interviewing skills, so I have been looking at some career planning info from around teh interweb.
This [link] is a great slideshow about career planning that is a review of Dan Pink’s new book.
Daniel H. Pink is the New York Times bestselling author of A WHOLE NEW [...]
Guest Posting at Slacker Manager [Productivity in Context]
I have a guest post up at Slacker Manager about Performance-based Interviewing. Check it out, if you would.
Original post here: Stephen
Work Smarter [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Entrepreneur.com has an article about online apps for your small business:
Work Smarter - Entrepreneur.com
There’s a web application out there with your company’s name written all over it. In fact, there are probably several. An entire suite of online software, even. A spreadsheet calls out for collaboration. E-mail beckons you to receive, manage and archive from [...]
What Can I Do for You? [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Naomi at Ittybiz was asked a question about what exactly it is that she does. Heh.
This question came to me in an email from somebody I know. I clicked ‘reply’ and was all set to type out an answer when something very disturbing occurred to me. This person reads my blog.
Not just casual reading. Not [...]
Building on Vitual Reality [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
The Hindu : Education Plus : Building on virtual reality
Building on virtual reality
Gone are the days when students from civil engineering classes will have to use their artistic skills to draw and explain the structural nuances. With the advent of Information Technology, students can now turn their ideas and dreams into virtual reality in [...]
The Commercialization of IT [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]
Benjamin takes a look at how a broader slice of the young people of today will have much more advanced IT skills than ever before. IT used to be the domain of those with very specialized training, nowadays it seems that every kid on the block is learning HTML and PHP and coding their own [...]