Surviving Overwhelm: Using technology to make your life easier (not harder)

January 25, 2010

Here are a few tips to help you use technology to make your life easier (not harder!), especially if you’re feeling stressed or overwhelmed.

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Surviving Overwhelm: Staying productive and sane at work

January 22, 2010

We all go through times in our lives where we’re just overwhelmed. We’re stressed and tired. We struggle to make decisions. We want to move forward, but just can’t seem to do so. Here are some lessons I’ve learned (and had reinforced over the past few months) to help get through these tough times…

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Happy New Year!

January 6, 2010

Now that I’ve finished the last of my 2009 holiday relaxing and recharging, I’m ready to get 2010 rolling! Starting this month I’ll be posting some of the “How-To” guides that I’ve created for my clients along with some of the lessons I’ve learned along the way.

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Be human, not Soylent

November 13, 2009

After surviving a morning presentation filled with short-sighted selfishness, aggression, and fear, I eagerly grasped at the kinder, more hopeful society described by Stowe Boyd.* *Who happens to be the most tweetable speaker I’ve ever heard. I think he actually speaks in 140 character sound bytes. Instead of taking the trash out of the economy [...]

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Kessler Kicks Off (and Ticks Off) Defrag

November 12, 2009

Keynoter Andy Kessler kicked off Defrag with a bang. I guess with a title like “Soylent Green“, no one should have been surprised at his controversial talk.  He started with an interesting premise (and visual) that we need to boost productivity by “defragging” the economy – reducing waste, improving efficiencies, having people spend less time [...]

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How to build a dynamic web presence in three simple steps

November 2, 2009

When you hang out around geeks, you forget that email is still cutting edge technology for most people. And for every startup with a slick website, you’ll see many more neighborhood restaurants or community centers with an abysmal site or no site at all. Here are three simple steps for building a dynamic site for your business.

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The power of simple

October 7, 2009

When faced with an unfamiliar task, we’re often presented with either an obsessively detailed checklist or a hopelessly vague idea – both of which inspire a distinct feeling of dread and almost always cause preventable delays.

What are you doing to find the middle ground?

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Bring on the inspiration

September 9, 2009

I think the universe is trying to tell me something. I recently completed a research project that provided sparked some creative business ideas. (Direction!) I had dinner with friends on Sunday and in addition to a tummy full of s’mores, came away with plans to meet with a small group to hash out our stuckness [...]

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You're doing it wrong: Twitter (the command-and-control edition)

September 2, 2009

Earlier this month, I wrote about a non-profit who wanted to jump onto the Twitter bandwagon without understanding the tool or having a strategy for using it. Well, they’ve now created an account that may be headed for Twitter failure. While it may be too late to get some strategic planning around social media in this case, maybe we can still manage to salvage a little bit of dignity.

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Looking to stretch your brain? Try Defrag-ging it.

September 1, 2009

I stay on top of general technology and business trends through various blogs, Twitter, etc. But once a year, I treat myself to a real technology brain stretcher and attend the Defrag conference in Denver.

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