Time for a workflow audit
Go find a geek. Someone who understands gmail, Outlook, Excel and other basic tools. Pay her to sit next to you for an hour and watch you work. Then say, “tell me five ways I can save an hour a day.” Whatever you need to pay for this service, it will pay for itself in [...]
Email checklist (maybe this time it’ll work!)
Three years ago this week, I posted this checklist, in the naive hope that it would eliminate (or perhaps merely reduce) the ridiculous CC-to-all emails about the carpool, the fake-charity forwards, the ALL CAPS yelling and the stupid PR spam. A guy can hope, can’t he? Feel free to send this to those that need [...]
Microsoft’s Quarterly Profit Falls Below Apple’s for First Time in 20 Years
Microsoft reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple for the first time in 20 years as the iPad ate into sales of laptop computers. Microsoft’s net income for the quarter was $ 5.2 billion compared to Apple’s $ 5.99 billion. According to Financial Times. More About: apple, ipad, microsoft, Windows 8 For more Business & [...]
‘It’s time to do battle with astroturfing’
‘It’s time to do battle with astroturfing’ The tobacco industry does it, the US Air Force clearly wants to … astroturfing – the use of sophisticated software to drown out real people on web forums – is on the rise. How do we stop it? Every month more evidence piles up, suggesting that online comment [...]
