Category Archives: Productivity

Productivity Wednesday #7 : Use Email to Connect with Potential Followers

Looking to build your connectivity on Linked In?  Increase your followers on Twitter or Friends on Facebook? Chances are you already communicate with a lot of people via e-mail, but you haven’t taken the time to connect with them elsewhere.

Rapportive [...]

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Productivity Wednesday #6 : Share Digital Content on Social Media with Buffer

If you read a lot of digital content, you should share a lot.  The problem is that you probably read in spurts. If you shared in spurts, you would probably annoy your friends.  Buffer helps fix that problem.
Buffer has great [...]

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Productivity Wednesday #5 : Boomerang for GMail

Sometimes when Getting Things Done, you need a little more power in your inbox than the default.  Boomerang for GMail is the extra horsepower you need.  A few things that Boomerang provides.
1. Send Mail Later
Sometimes you want to send e-mail [...]

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Sunday Book Review : Simpleology by Mark Joyner

Simpleology: The Simple Science of Getting What You Want by Mark Joyner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This one was a little too self help, buy into my product for my liking. I think that the sections on logic and reasoning [...]

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Hierarchy of Reading

Abraham Maslow made the concept of hierarchies of progression in systems popular via his work on a hierarchy of needs.  Below is a theory about the hierarchy of different types of readers.

Survival Reader
Only reads when critical to survival.  This type of reader regularly denounces [...]

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10 Steps for Planning a Great Event

The most difficult part about planning an event is knowing where to start. At Gangplank, we plan a lot of events. We have created a simple process that allows us to jump right into planning.

We assemble those involved in the [...]

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Hacking Standups – I Feel Exposed

At Integrum we regularly find new things to try as a result of our regular team retrospectives.  Recently, the team had a lot of discussion about what it takes to make teams great.  There was a lot of discussion about [...]

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40 Sleep Hacks to Get Your Sleep On

Working in an industry with people that seem to be incapable of being up at a reasonable time regularly always fills me with ire.  Recently, I stumbled across a free e-book of 40 sleeping hacks.  It made me realize that [...]

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Notes From Fierce Leadership

Quotes and notes from Fierce Leadership by Susan Scott.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinions. — Jack Kerouac
Your most valuable currency is relationship.  Emotional capital.
Conventional measures of business success shouldn’t be ignored.  Human [...]

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Sunday Book Review: Making It All Work by David Allen

Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Really good content, but a lot of rehashing from original GTD. If you haven’t read GTD in a [...]

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