7 Strategies to Help Manage Email Overload
Email is my nemesis. I use tools like Clear Context and Xobni to help me manage the email that I have but it still seems to be absolutely overwhelming at times. In my blog perusals today I found a great article on Dr Dewett’s Weekly Column entitled Feeling Bogged Down by Your Email. The [...]
Project Management Mistakes
Did you know that only 29% of IT projects are ever completed successfully? When I read the article The 14 Most Common Project Management Mistakes at Network World’s website I couldn’t help but identify with some of my past projects that went seriously amiss. Some of the mistakes…
IT doesn’t follow a standard, repeatable project management [...]
What is the #1 Cause of Death World Over?
If you guessed Heart Attack then you were correct. That muscle in our chest that does its job day after day, year after year, decade after decade is an absolutely amazing organ. But we so often forget that it too is a muscle that needs to be cared for. Conditions exist that cause the [...]
A Story to Tell
Do you have a story to tell? Do you want to get it published? Maybe Self Publishing is the answer!
Many years ago my mother wrote a children’s book. I just loved this book. It was a take on “Row Row Row Your Boat” and was a journey that the child was taking down the [...]
Interest Rates and Your Equity
With the recent reductions in the prime interest rates NOW may be the time for you to consider refinancing you home to get out of a variable interest rate loan or a loan with a large balloon. Perhaps you’d like to do some debt consolidation, or a remodel…you could get a Home Equity Loan or [...]
How to Stop Telemarketers and Maybe Make a Few Bucks
It’s the same old story… You just sit down for dinner or you settle in to watch your favorite program on television and the phone rings. It’s one of those pesky telemarketing firms wanting to sell you the latest and greatest things since sliced bread, or the carpet cleaning company offering you some great deal [...]
Email Overload and Reminders - The Nagless, Productive Way!
In this day and age of email overload I find that I am having to contribute to the overload because individuals that I have exchange email or telephone calls with have committed to do something that invariably it gets buried in their hundreds if not thousands of email. Ultimately they forget the deadline unless [...]
Auctiva for Posting eBay Auctions? Your Thoughts…
If you are a user of Auctiva I am curious to hear your feedback about this auction management system. I have a number of items that I am going to want to put on eBay and after searching through listings on eBay itself to see what people are using Auctiva came up quite a bit. [...]
Data Recovery - There IS an Option When You Don’t Have a Backup
“Track 0 Indicator Failure…” “Drive Sector Not Found…” “Drive Read Failure…” ”Seek Failure…” If you have used computers for any length of time you undoubtedly will be faced with error messages similar to these. If you’re also like most of us you’re not going to have a recent backup to recover your data. I’ve been in this situation and absolutely needed [...]
Microsoft Certification - Got Yours?
I don’t have my Microsoft Certification but I have often wondered how I could accomplish certification training while still working. Online leaning opportunities seem to be the answer. QuickCert is one of the online companies that offers Microsoft Training. For an adult learning like me that likes to learn in many different ways their program [...]
