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Five for Friday – 14 March 2014

Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. About change, defaults and disruption – “large organisations are racing against start-ups to stay relevant”. Great stuff from Anne McCrossan Creating a minimum viable product using…

Tame your Twitter stream

Not sure how I had never come across this before, but Tame is super useful! You set up an account as with all these services, and then connect to your Twitter account. Tame then goes away and comes back with…

Putting together an online course

As part of the membership perks of WorkSmart (not got your membership yet? Sign up here!) I am putting together a free online course on digital personal productivity. Something to look forward to then, but also an opportunity for me…

Creative facilitation

Facilitation is one of those odd skills, or activities, where it is very hard to define, but you tend to know when it is being done well, or indeed badly. Viv McWaters and Johnnie Moore are two people who can…

Five for Friday – 7 March 2014

Five for Friday is WorkSmart’s weekly roundup of interesting stuff from the week’s reading. Attention, Please! PC Programs to Stave Off Distraction – can technology help you stop wasting time with technology? Oppia – a Google 20% project to “enable…

Simplifying complex work

Yves Morieux gives a really interesting TED talk here on how to reduce the complexity of modern day work. He has six rules to help make this happen: Understand what your colleagues actually do. Remove rules: Reinforce the “integrators” Integrators…

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As you would expect, WorkSmart is all over the internet! The first thing to do is to join the site. Membership is free, and means you get the regular email newsletter. In the future it will also give you access…