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Cubicle Hell: Dealing with Distractions in an Open-Office Environment
Are you in a cube farm or other open-office environment? If so, you know that no amount of snack machines, sofas, or fancy Herman Miller furniture can make up for the constant noise and interruptions. For many years I worked on a team of introverts sandwiched between two of my company’s most extroverted teams. Sitting out [...]
- Sunday, July 18th, 2010,
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Awesome Links #5: Social Media Management, Web Design Tips, More
No, You Can’t Automate Social Media! An insightful post by Tamar Weinberg on the importance of engagement and time investment in social media. 250 Quick Web Design Tips: Part 1 and Part 2 Six Revisions’ quick web design tips series is an excellent resource for both beginners and experienced designers. Cool PC Apps: The Top 50 PC [...]
- Sunday, July 11th, 2010,
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How to Create an Engaging and Effective Bio Page
When building out your website or blog, one of the most important—and frustrating—tasks at hand is creating your bio page. We can write for days about our topic of expertise, but when it comes to writing about ourselves, it’s tempting to cower under the desk and hope the need will pass. Your bio page, however, [...]
- Wednesday, July 7th, 2010,
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Awesome Links #4: Personal Empowerment, Smartphones, Location-Based Services
5 Strategies for Personal Empowerment in Difficult Situations How do you empower yourself when there’s negativity all around? Lifehack has an interesting article that explores how to survive, even flourish, in such situations. 3 Productivity Tips for the Corporate Web Worker Are you one of those fortunate ones whose boss has agreed to let you work [...]
- Sunday, July 4th, 2010,
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Do You Actually Use an RSS Reader?
Last week, I gave seven advanced tips on reading RSS feeds. The post got some nice comments and fueled further discussion, and fellow WorkAwesome contributor Georgiana Cohen followed up with some Google Reader tips. While I personally love my RSS reader, there are no doubts about the fact that RSS usage has seen a decline since it was [...]
- Friday, July 2nd, 2010,
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Google Voice Tips for More Productive Communication
Last week was a big week in the world of phone services. The Apple faithful got their hands on the iPhone 4. New Droid phones were announced. And Google Voice announced that anyone can sign up for its free service. What, you don’t know about Google Voice? That’s probably because it has only been open to [...]
- Thursday, July 1st, 2010,
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Blog Reading and Sharing: Power Tips for Google Reader
If you’re an avid blog reader, chances are you manage your reading through Google Reader. If you don’t, you probably should (we even advised you as much in our feed reading tips). It’s one of the most popular RSS feed readers around, in part because of its ubiquity, but also because it’s a powerful application that [...]
- Sunday, June 27th, 2010,
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11 Productivity Tools for Road Warriors and Telecommuters
I love working from home. I don’t miss the commute or the distractions from coworkers.It’s a pretty good gig. But at least once a week, I take this show on the road. I have a meeting in town and then need to find a place to set up shop nearby afterward to get some work [...]
- Friday, June 25th, 2010,
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3 Perspectives on Marketing a New Business through Blogging
Blogging is the new marketing. It’s a cost effective way to grow your business by attracting new customers and communicating with your existing customer base with new marketing ideas. Three business bloggers share their advice on marketing a new business with blogs: Why A Blog Won’t Help Your Business Rich Brooks explains that a blog [...]
- Thursday, June 24th, 2010,
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Google Voice: How it Can Change How You Use the Phone
Google announced yesterday that Google Voice is now open to everyone with a U.S. telephone number. Until now, you had to get an invite from someone who was invited to use it. What is it? It’s a nifty Internet phone service that works with your existing phones and gives pretty good competition to Skype. Here’s what [...]
- Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010,
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