5 Tips for a Better Relationship with the IT Guy

The IT guy in your office might be a perfectly likable member of the team. But in many offices, he or she is an odd, introverted person that pops up every once in a while to tell you what you’ve done wrong with your computer. The gap between IT and the rest of us has turned into a cavern as...

July 8th, 2010 | Office Politics, Technology, Workplace | Read More

6 Tips For A Great Prezi (The PPT Alternative)

The idea behind Prezi is simple: let’s build an alternative to PPT that isn’t difficult to use, looks great, and is sharable. Prezi has definitely accomplished a lot and you should give it serious consideration for your next presentation for the ‘Wow’ factor alone. You can...

June 14th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Internal Meetings Part II: 5 Ways to Buck the Blackberry

There’s nothing more contentious than meetings. Internal meetings. We’ve all been in the gatherings where blackberry typing, pastry eating, and PowerPoints both seem to suck our time away, but in such a passive, friendly way that we don’t mind. How do we make this workplace institution better....

March 31st, 2010 | Office Politics, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Ban Email?

So let’s ban email. But before we do, let’s talk about something else: auditing emails. I know, the phrase has a terrifying ring. No one likes anything audited and email can be highly personal, but Michael Schrage thinks that it’s a good mechanism to improve productivity. No,...

March 4th, 2010 | Featured, Technology, Workplace | Read More

7 Useful Cell Phone Tips from David Pogue

David Pogue, the technology editor for The New York Times, focuses on cell phones and offers up some very cool tips and tricks to increase productivity…and have a little fun with them. Many of these tips come from frustrations we all have: Why do we have to listen to instructions to leave a message?...

December 2nd, 2009 | Technology, Video, Workplace | Read More

Sending Big Files

Computer technology is funny. The smaller, faster, and cheaper things get, the bigger, slower, and more problematic they become. It used to be that sending a 1MB file took forever and was likely blocked by the recipient. Today 1MB is child’s play, but that 300MB PowerPoint presentation…that’s...

November 24th, 2009 | Organization, Technology, Workplace | Read More

Inbox Zero: Myth or Fact?

The idea sounds crazy…your inbox should be at zero most of the time. That’s zero. Nothing. For most of us, email inboxes are sort of a repository for our lives. It’s the place where you keep everything because you might need it in the future. Even the little replies that don’t...

October 28th, 2009 | Organization, Technology, Workplace | Read More

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