Pimp Your Work - Improving Your Work Day Efficiency

January 28th, 2008

Cool Tools: Basecamp

Whenever you are doing collaborative work, it is important that every player communicates with each other. To do that, you can simply email each other. Or you can use Basecamp.
Basecamp has improving communications between team members, making it easier to collaborate on a single project. Easy to setup, simple to use and very flexible, […]

By Celine -- 2 comments

May 11th, 2007

A Skype application for the Blackberry that works? Maybe?

I saw this a few days ago and have held off writing about this Skype for Blackberry app until I had some time to play with it:
IM+ for Skype Software by SHAPE Services is a mobile client for Skype Software. It enables voice and text communication with other Skype users as well as cost-effective calling […]

By Tris Hussey -- 4 comments

January 2nd, 2007

My Idea Board

I am fortunate that I have a large white board where I work that I can use for…whatever. At the end of 2006, I was staring at the white board, noting how much stuff was still showing up on the board even after being erased.
So I got out the cleaning spray and cleaned off all […]

By Scot Herrick -- 1 comment

November 13th, 2006

What do us pimps use to work better? Here’s the list

Ever wonder what folks like us use day to day?  E-mail, PIM, RSS, web browser …  I posed this question to my fellow PYW writers and this is what I got back.
Scot:

E-mail - work: Outlook. Home: Yahoo on my domain name
PIM - Treo 650 (Palm)
Desktop search - None. Tried two and didn’t like either one
web […]

By Tris Hussey -- 12 comments

October 21st, 2006

Office BFF’s Maximize Employee Engagement

OK, so Paris and Nicole aren’t BFF role models, but according to USA Today, 29% of employees say they have not just a friend, but a BEST friend at work. It seems that best friendships are indeed good for business.
“It’s widely accepted that the winning companies during the next generation will be those that have […]

By Kammie -- 1 comment