Productivity

Seven go-to productivity apps for 2012

January 10, 2012 By Mark Tosczak 2 Comments

With a new year just underway and productivity and organization being the focus of many new year’s resolutions and goals, I thought I’d give a quick run-down of some of the key apps and tools I’m using to stay organized these days. General Productivity and Organization Dropbox for sharing documents between multiple computers and sharing [...]

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Six tips for getting more out of conferences

March 9, 2010 By Mark Tosczak 3 Comments

I recently attended Ragan’s Social Media for Communicators conference in Atlanta (which was excellent — the folks at Ragan did a great job finding speakers and putting on a great event). For 2½ days about 500 of us met at Coca-Cola headquarters and heard first-hand how some of the country’s best known companies are using [...]

Filed Under: Career, Networking, Productivity Tagged With: conferences

Five mistakes newbie bloggers make

February 16, 2010 By Mark Tosczak 8 Comments

I’ve been blogging for about 10 years now. Along the way I’ve learned a lot. I’ve also made a lot of mistakes. A lot. So, if you’re new to blogging and determined to be successful at it, here are five mistakes to avoid. Mistake #1: Not sticking with it. Some bloggers see a lot of [...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Blogging Basics, Content marketing, Creativity, Personal branding, Social media, Writing Tagged With: fear of failure, mistakes

How to budget time for social media

February 15, 2010 By Mark Tosczak Leave a Comment

One of the challenges of social media is how to manage the amount of time that you could put into these activities. How much time, and how exactly you spend that time, will end up being a little different for everyone depending on your goals and strategy. Here’s a framework to help you budget your [...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Career, Content marketing, Networking, Online marketing, Personal branding, Productivity, Social media Tagged With: time management

What's your purpose?

February 15, 2010 By Mark Tosczak 2 Comments

I recently listened to an interview with author Daniel Pink (via Elizabeth Marshall’s free Author Teleseminars) about his new book Drive. (Confession: I haven’t read it, so I’m basing this blog post on the author interview, which ran about an hour. If you want to learn more about this, you should read the book, which [...]

Filed Under: Career, Creativity, Doing Good Tagged With: Daniel Pink, Drive, purpose

Dear email marketers – why don't you love me anymore?

February 14, 2010 By Mark Tosczak Leave a Comment

Dear Email Marketers, I have to admit, in the beginning I was really infatuated with you. You had a cool web site with lots of great content. You had obviously spent a lot of time developing it, and it seemed like you were going to be pumping out more great content in the future. All [...]

Filed Under: Creativity, Online marketing, Public Relations & Marketing Tagged With: Email

How to blog frequently

February 9, 2010 By Mark Tosczak 1 Comment

One of the biggest challenges for most part-time bloggers is finding the time and energy to blog consistently. Since Jan. 18, I’ve been engaged in a little challenge here for myself — 30 posts in 30 days. As it turns out, I probably couldn’t have picked a worse time to try to average a post [...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Content marketing, Creativity, Personal branding, Productivity, Writing

How to overcome blogger's block (aka writer's block)

January 29, 2010 By Mark Tosczak Leave a Comment

It happened to me this week. I was cruising along, had a good list of blog post ideas and had written four of seven posts for the week. But I knew I had some very busy days coming up, and I needed to get three more written to meet my self-imposed quota of posts for [...]

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3 tips for turning Gmail Tasks into a simple GTD tool

December 11, 2008 By Mark Tosczak 5 Comments

This morning I woke up to find that Gmail had enabled Tasks on my account. A task list has probably been one the biggest hole in the suite of Google apps and tools, and this new Gmail add-on looks like a pretty good start on remedying that This is still a very lightweight app, and [...]

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