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Pimp Your Work - Improving Your Work Day Efficiency

October 30th, 2007

Productivity Toolkit: John Brougher of Freelance Switch

John Brougher is a writer and content manager for Freelance Switch. He’s a productivity nut, and a proud member of the cult of Merlin Mann. Although he uses more productivity techniques rather than tools, here’s his productivity toolkit:
Tadalist - John uses this to keep track of things to do when he collaborates with others.
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October 25th, 2007

Calling all people who want to be interviewed…I need you!

If you’re a productivity guru or have a lot of workplace experience you want to rant or rave about, I need to interview you for Pimp Your Work!  the following new sections need your contribution:

 Productivity Toolkit - where you tell me which productivity tools you use and a 2-sentence explanation why.
Workplace Drama - Has anything […]

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October 24th, 2007

Pimp and optimize your LinkedIn profile

Pinny Cohen talks about how to keyword optimize your resume. He brings up some interesting points.
I’ll take for example a site like Monster.com or Craigslist, both sites with tons of resumes posted on there. How do you get your resume seen by as many recruiters as possible?
The answer is of course, to include […]

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October 17th, 2007

7 ways to make your emails unprofessional

Proper email etiquette is something everyone should know if they want to be perceived as professionals. However, not everyone wants to be a professional. You can be the office goofball, butt of jokes, or simply that creep that everyone’s trying to avoid. If you don’t care what other people think or if […]

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October 8th, 2007

7 tips to making a squeaky clean to-do list

Writing a great to-do list is both a science and an art.  It’s a science because there’s a bit of experimenting and testing involved, and an art because you inject your personal style into your to-do list system.  Plus, you can make things look pretty, if you want.  For those who don’t have a […]

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October 6th, 2007

5 tips to getting rid of unproductive obsessions

“The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam,” said the agricultural ministry official of Japan. What does this have to do with pimping anyone’s work? Well, if you’ve been keeping up with the news, you’ve probably heard by now that some Japanese bureaucrat spent his working hours making 260 contributions of Gundam-related […]

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April 13th, 2007

trying again

Okay let’s see if this works better the second time …
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April 13th, 2007

Now this could be spiffy

Testing a little app to post from my Berry.
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March 22nd, 2007

Getting back into the swing of things

Like I said on Monday, I’m lucky I work from home, because I’ve been sick all week.  Really sick.  Sicker than I’ve been in years it feels like.  Now that I’m feeling better, and can string words together in my usual semi-logical fashion, this experience makes me wonder if companies are prepared for a major […]

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March 20th, 2007

Do computers really make us more productive?

This excerpt from a recent study got me thinking:
“Money spent on computing technology delivers gains in worker productivity that are three to five times those of other investments“, a couple of thoughts come to mind:

The 69 page report by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation was sponsored by companies such as I.B.M., Cisco Systems and eBay, as […]

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