What to Look for in a WebHost?
I’ve been hosting my own websites for a number of years and I’ve tried a good many webhosts including 1and1.com, westhost.com and hostgator.com and I can honestly say that of all of them that I’ve tried, the best (based on my needs) for the price has been from flexihostings.net. [RETRACTION HERE - I NO LONGER RECOMMEND THEM!] I’m [...]
Xobni Review – Initial Impressions
I stumbled upon the Xobni (Zob-nee) website when I was looking for email productivity tools. After reading all of the pages, watching the video (see below) and signing up for the beta I was a bit disappointed that I could not immediately begin trying out what appeared to be a great tool. They did however offer [...]
Microsoft Excel – Checkboxes with Dates
This is the first in a series of a few articles that I will be sharing on little tips and tricks in Microsoft Excel that I have accumulated or built over the last few months. I’ve incorporated most of these into an Excel workbook or two to meet my specific needs. I’m not really a [...]
What Tools Do You Use to Manage Projects?
As a project manager, I am always looking for great tools and utilities that will help me to become more productive and improve customer (internal and external) experience.
I know about the standard stuff that we use like Microsoft Project, Mindmapper, Excel, Outlook and the like. What I would be interested in is hearing what you’ve [...]
How I Manage Projects with Outlook and Excel
There are a LOT of theories and ideas floating around to help with time management and productivity. Classes and seminars are offered, books are published, and websites and blogs are posted all to try to help us better manage our lives. For this author there has been no one method to help with time and productivity [...]
Getting Help with Microsoft Excel – My Recent Experience
By my own admission I am NOT a Microsoft Excel expert. I know enough about the application to make me dangerous.
I use Excel pretty extensively in my day to day work activities, and in my continuing effort to streamline my day I decided that I needed to add some functionality to my project management spreadsheet. This [...]
ClearContext IMS Review – How to Manage Email
The ClearContext IMS (Information Management System) v4 Outlook Add-in has been released. This new release adds some great features and functionality. Included below are the ones that I have tested and use. I have also done a prior review on overall features and functions that I use that you can find here. With IMS I have found [...]
Microsoft Excel – Hyperlinking How To…
I have a HUGE spreadsheet that I use for work where each customer gets 2 individual worksheets and there are rollup totals for those worksheets, etc… Navigating through this was initially a problem for me then I found out about Hyperlinking… I started out real simple… I created a blank worksheet, entered my customer names [...]
Viable Microsoft Office replacement
In my job it is not uncommon for me to visit with customers and need to be able to access the functionality of Microsoft Office Word or Excel only to find that my customer does not own the Office Suite. To handle this situation I can either get what I need and email it to myself so [...]
ClearContext for Outlook
There are a couple of Outlook addin applications that I use and use quite extensively. ClearContext is one of those applications… If you are like me and you deal with a literal ton of email every day you owe it to yourself to take a look at this addin.
If you’ve ever wanted to:
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