Productivity

Ahhh, a big thank you to Google. I can now sync both directions between Outlook 2007 and my Google Calendar account thanks to Google Calendar Sync. Simply install one little program that occupies (another) space in the taskbar, and set it to sync as often as you wish. Simple as that. I like simple.
I just […]

In the last few companies I worked with before becoming a full-time content maven, we knew and heard about colleagues who work over 12-hour days on a regular basis. I’ve put in a couple of long hours over my career, but never on a daily basis. Based on experience, it doesn’t make sense why companies […]

How to Ruin Web Design — The Design Curve is a simple and accurate view of what happens to a design when more people get involved in providing feedback and the time spent in changing the design. [Link from Web 2.0 Blog]
If you don’t read the rest of this entry — this picture tells all […]

Attensa, Inc., the leading developer of RSS software for businesses, today introduced significant enhancements to the Attensa Feed Server, a dedicated Web feed server designed to distribute internal and external Web feeds to users and groups behind the firewall. The latest version of the enterprise RSS leader’s comprehensive, end-to-end solution is a milestone achievement in […]

Telecom Brokerage, Inc. proudly announces a cutting-edge learning tool designed exclusively for its agents. As technology continues to evolve at break-neck speed, it has become increasingly critical for agents to stay ahead of these advances. TBI TECH-tools is the perfect, Web-based solution.
According to Geoffrey Shepstone, President of TBI, “We have a staff of over 30 […]

Want a more positive workplace where you and your co-workers feel happy and motivated? Want to make customers happier so that their loyalty - and your profits - grow? Want to work more efficiently and effectively and improve your health? Authentic Happiness Coach and Customer Loyalty expert JoAnna Brandi shares tips for transforming these wants […]

An environment is anything that surrounds you. It is not only your living quarters, your office or your car; but can include your belief system, relationships, networks, your body, natural gifting, values, energy, and feelings.
Have you ever had a friend who was the most amazing person and who loved you completely? Who encouraged you constantly […]

My mother used to sing songs all the time and they used to annoy me, but now I use the words from those songs and treat them as wisdom. Sometimes we don’t hear messages until much later; sometimes we hear them when it’s too late.

People we meet and have to see on a regular basis can have a negative affect on your life and self-confidence, but only if you let them. I am a person who would get dragged down by any negative comment made from a friend or by my boss for example. This article is about how […]

Virtual Servers - gotta love ‘em, gotta hate ‘em.
If you ever have to support a large number of dev and test servers in your IT environment and have found yourself frustrated with the administrative and technical overhead, a virtual machine architecture might be for you. It’s all the rage these days, but (trust me on […]

Stick-to-itiveness is not the most eloquent of English words. But it sure is an important one. Sure there are others words that mean the same thing; persistence and perseverance come immediately to mind. Regardless of what word you use; can you look back on the past month, the past year, or even the past decade […]

Look, I realize that a lot of you out there are the sort that prefer to keep your options open with respect to your Web browser usage. Maybe there are just days where you would rather use IE and then other times when Firefox would be more to your fancy? Whatever the reason for wanting […]

Most of us were taught that having a realistic
opinion of who we are is basic to sound mental health.
But is this necessarily true? Would we do better to
have self-illusions?
The assumption is that normal, well-adjusted people
have realistic views of their own potentials. And we
also assume that folks who haven’t managed to develop
realistic self-concepts are either neurotic, […]

If you’re like me and work in an environment that has a
whole host of servers running various Windows OSes, then
I’m sure you use a variety of tools to provide remote
access to them.
To connect to our NT4 boxes, we have PC Anywhere
installed, and the Windows 2000 and 2003 machines are
using Terminal Service. But because of incompatibility
with […]

The Mindjet team, the people who create and publish the MindManager software that can be so useful for organizing thoughts, ideas, and plans, recently started blogging:
“The Mindjet team is now blogging! Visit our new Mindjet blog to read and comment on regularly updated discussions about our journey through the world of visualizing information. Gain insight […]

Any problem, no matter how complex, can be solved
if approached with a creative strategy. Here are
ten steps to getting your mind in an optimal
problem-solving state.

This is just a quick report. It doesn’t need more. You may have seen one of my previous reports on the free online classes run by HP. Now it’s expanded that university from classes for consumers and small businesspeople into entire “campuses” for different kinds of people. The one I’ll mention today is for IT […]

Welcome to all the new readers who have joined us during the past week from around the world!
Today’s tip is critical for power e-mail users - especially so if you use e-mail for business. But before I get into it I want to extend a special offer to you.
I don’t normally do this, but as […]

Don Jones at MCPmag writes:
Simple attributes are old school; do more with multi-valued attributes in your scripts.
Ready for your Scripting Answers? This time, let me show you how to work with the complex, multi-valued attributes in Active Directory. Unlike nice, simple attributes like name, which contains one and only one value for each user, multi-valued […]

I am a big proponent of balance. Everything has to be just so. I believe that we should all strive to obtain balance in our lives. Balance between career and family. Balance between public and private. Balance between spiritualism, finances, and materialism.
One of the things I also pass on to my clients is that, since […]