Technology Tips
The law of unintended consequences is alive and well in LinkedIn’s #SWAM sledgehammer approach to managing spam on the platform that I wrote about here. Everyone hates Spam except the spammers. Most people who learn about #LinkedIn #SWAM hate that too. SWAM by the way is LinkedIn’s Site-Wide Auto-Moderation process. [...]
Productivity software firm Xobni is in the news again, this time in the same sentence as ‘Yahoo’ and ‘Marissa Mayer’. The unofficial word is that Yahoo, who has been busy buying businesses recently, has offered to pay $30 – $40 Million for Xobni. […]
If your PDF resource is limited to a free PDF Reader and/or a free PDF Printer, you are limited in what you can do with PDF files. If you want to work smarter with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and many other programmes, especially in creating, editing and sharing information, [...]
Livescribe has just released an additional smartpen to the UK market with built in Wifi and a direct connection with Evernote. So they now provide 2 options for turning everything we write and hear into digital records. Given that I am an enthusiastic user for my own productivity and managing my [...]
I will be at the Learning Technologies Exhibition on 29th and 30th January in Olympia London. It is a great event combining 2 of my professional passions – Learning and, er – Technology. I have a few meetings lined up for both days already and if you want a 121 with [...]
Many of you, dear readers, will know that I am a big fan of the Livescribe Echo smartpen as a productivity tool. Back in September 2011 I wrote about how it replaced my MontBlanc for business writing. In October 2012 I wrote about how their new smartpen, the Livescribe Sky, [...]
Hi, Tim here again with a final Microsoft Excel tip for this year. This smarter working with Excel tip is about splitting comprehensive data in one cell into a number of discrete cells so you can manage the information easier within your CRM system. I use it when I get [...]
Hi, Tim Maybury here again with another Microsoft Excel tip useful for managing marketing information. I use this one in conjunction with Microsoft Outlook mail merge and my father’s Productivity Pointer emails. This time I’m going to show you how to combine data in 2 or more columns into a new column. [...]
You are juggling operational work with projects, strategy and ambitions every day. You are doing this in your professional work life and your personal life. That’s 6 dimensions of time management before you even get to differentiating between the competing priorities within each dimension and the inevitable email torrent that [...]
Technology always promises to make us more productive. So how come small business owners still feel under the cosh and are still working long hours? Like the 1950s promise of a housekeeping robot, is IT productivity all just hype? Or is it us humans who need a little upgrade? There’s [...]
