Archive for the ‘Working Better’ Category
How I use social media (including Twitter and Facebook) in 2009
Published on: February 28, 2009Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I use social media, and why I interact with it in the way that I do. I’ve also been thinking a lot about how I should be using social media, and if there are more things I can do to give and get better results. I credit [...]
Sometimes analog just works better
Published on: February 10, 2009Two weeks ago, the phone system in my office and the phone at my desk were upgraded, from an older system that featured an outdated NEC handset, to a new IP-based system with a Nortel “communications center.” The new system has a lot of features, including Bluetooth, the option to ring multiple lines at the [...]
Using technology: Two good resources
Published on: February 4, 2009In my last post, I listed 21 social media channels that you could be using to drive traffic to your business and results to your bottom line. As I mentioned, that list is simply a place to start your planning, or to discover new things to add to what you are already doing. In many [...]
Use technology to avoid mistakes others have made
Published on: February 2, 2009Over the last month, we’ve been spending a lot of time updating the technology behind our blog and adding new features to make it more informative and more usable. We added Twitter and dedicated ourselves to posting to it regularly, we embedded a feed from Facebook, we created our own custom-branded short URL service (similar [...]
Focus, focus, focus.
Published on: November 16, 2008I recently sat down to work on a major project and did something I almost never do: I turned my phone to silent and closed my email. I consider myself a good multitasker, able to work on several projects at the same time and accomplish what I need to, but I just needed to focus [...]
