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 [...]
Free stuff for bloggers and other online types
February 8, 2010 By 2 Comments
1. Free business cards, from Vistaprint. 2. Free phone number with voice mail and other features, from Google Voice. Unfortunately this is still in beta, and you have to request an invite, which may not come soon. They don’t seem to be allowing uses to give away invites, at least yet, judging from the fact [...]
19 tips from (almost) 10 years of blogging
January 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
3 tips for turning Gmail Tasks into a simple GTD tool
December 11, 2008 By 5 Comments
Review of "Seven Content Strategies to Build Trust with Today's Savvy Consumers"
December 8, 2008 By 2 Comments
Seven Content Strategies to Build Trust with Today’s Savvy Consumers is a short e-book about how brands can use content to establish trust with customers. The e-book is free, but unlike many free information products I’ve seen, this one is worth reading and worth printing out and sticking on your bookshelf. The author, JoePulizzi, is [...]
Ten useful email newsletters
August 2, 2008 By 3 Comments
My post “Is email the new blogging” was quite popular. So, although I’m not giving up on either blogging or reading blogs, I figured I’d give you a list of some of the better e-mail newsletters out there that I subscribe to. Because I’m a blogger, ex-journalist and I work in marketing and public relations, [...]
Review: Circa notebooks from Levenger
July 17, 2008 By 2 Comments
For the past few weeks I’ve been using Circa notebooks from Levenger on a daily basis as a planning tool. I’m going to share my experience with these so far and tell you what I think about the product. What’s Circa First, it’s worth explaining what Circa notebooks are. The Circa system uses plastic disks [...]
You should attend ConvergeSouth 2008
July 16, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Do you live in North Carolina? In the South? Anywhere? Are you interested in things like blogs, online video and podcasting? Do you want to see ‘net celebs such as Robert Scoble, Anil Dash and Chris Rabb up close and personal? Then you should register for ConvergeSouth. I’ve gone the last two years (at least, [...]
