An online notebook
An online notebook
Digital tools provide great ways to collaborate online. Whether working with a smallish team to co-create a document, or engaging the wisdom of the crowd to build a list of ideas, the net allows us to work with people at…
I’ve just got into using Asana to manage my projects, thanks to a tip from Simon Booth-Lucking at Claremont Communications. It’s a great web-based task manager. What I really like about it is that it work on two levels –…
A key part of working smarter is the idea of flexible or remote working. One neat way of describing it is that work isn’t a place you go to, it’s what you do. There’s a lot of misunderstanding though about this…
So I posed a fair few questions in my last post about email. How about some solutions? Here’s one – inbox zero. Inbox zero is… what? A methodology? A process? A mindset? Who knows. What we do know is that…
Of all the systems we use at work, we probably spend more time in our email than anything else. I’d honestly say that at least 50% of my work is spent reading and responding to email. I’d wager that for…
Well done to Sarah Hammond, the WorkSmart member who has won our draw. Her prize, if you remember, is a copy of Scott Berkun‘s The Myths of Innovation. Sarah works at the British Library and you can find her on Twitter…
I recently came across The Workplace – a question and answer site for people who go to work. It’s built on the Stack Exchange platform – which has considerable success in building knowledge communities, particularly around techy topics. I personally…
There was a nice guest post from Doug Belshaw from Mozilla on Brian Kelly’s blog last week. Entitled What Does Working Openly on the Web Mean in Practice?, it told us a bit about Mozilla’s culture of openness and how…
In this first effort at podcasting, I talk about podcasting. Oh, and audiobooks, and an actual paper book, too. With thanks to Lloyd Davis for the inspiration. Listen using the player below: Or you can: Download the mp3 Subscribe to…
‘CRM’ or customer relationship management is one of those IT phrases that can put the fear of God into people, and with good reason. There aren’t many people who have managed to avoid the organisational carnage that attempts to deploy…