Are You Very Engaged at Work? You’re Likely a Horrible Employee.

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I’ve mentioned before how I like to use Evernote in my daily life to archive and triage incoming information for later processing. Today was the day to sort out the triage folder, which is a pain, but it’s really great to find some of the older things I’ve wanted to read and haven’t gotten to [...]

Time.ly Calendar and Googlebot-Bandwidth Issues

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Tl:dr version: If Time.ly’s All-in-One Event Calendar is installed on your site and Googlebot or Slurp, or whatever spider/crawler is blowing up your bandwidth, use the robots.txt file to block access to the events listings and you’ll sort yourself out fast. Recently I’ve used a new plugin called Time.ly All-in-One Event Calendar. The free version [...]

How to stay organized

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That’s more of a question than an answer, to be honest.  Sometimes I think I spend more time thinking about how to be organized or productive than I would if I just did it.  Over the years, I’ve tried so many different ways to stay organized and on task.  I’ve tried GTD, I’ve tried todo.txt, [...]

Yahoo! and Working From Home

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Below you’ll find my comments from a discussion I’m having with some classmates in my Organizational Research class: I have been following Mayer’s decisions and would be very interested in seeing the data they used to make that decision.  I really hope it works for them, as I have been a Yahoo! fan for years, [...]

Why Don’t We Do Great Things?

I’ve been battling this question for a while now, but it’s come to a head in the last week or so.  Maybe it was the death of Neil Armstrong.  I wonder, why don’t we do great things anymore.  By we, I mean personally and collectively. We’ve become a nation of punters.  No longer do we [...]