Projects Possible

“Good project management is essential to staying organized. I’m not a fan of jargon and industry specific nomenclature, so here is a basic guide as to what it takes to really manage a project.” is the lead in to a great article on project management that you can find on SmartWomanGuides.com .   Using a real [...]

For those of you that receive payments via Paypal for whatever your business might be, you may be interested to know that Paypal will now be required to report payments made to you to the IRS.   The Housing and Economic Recovery Act signed into law in 2008 is the culprit of the new requirement.   The [...]

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 strategies [...]

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 [...]

International business travel is bad enough!   Combine that with an airline that just doesn’t seem to care about customers and consistently applies policy inconsistently and I had a week of travel nightmares on WestJet.   This Canadian airline – that models itself after Southwest Airlines, in the US has an awful lot to learn about customer [...]

I have moved my cell service to Sprint… there will be another review of what an absolutely AWFUL transition that was… This review will focus on my new phone – The Mogul. This device is made by HTC and I must say that when I was with my prior cell provider I had a very [...]

It was pointed out to me by a reader via email that I haven’t really kept you all in the loop with my Xobni saga… So this brief post will hopefully get you all up to speed and give you some insight of what I am working through and still hope to get resolved. Unfortunately, [...]

You know I am always looking for productivity tips and tricks, particularly in the area of email since I am literally inundated with hundreds of them a day.  In the area of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) – 43 Folders shares their 5 tips.   Elegantly simple yet absolutely right on track…  I can honestly say [...]

Projects Possible is a pretty young blog.  We don’t have high Google rankings and we don’t get thousands and thousands of hits per day (at least not yet) but we certainly seem to get a fair share of comment spam.  These are the spammers that want to post comments to my valid postings to get [...]

The USPS is really making it convenient for home businesses to ship items.  You print postage online, and schedule your mail carrier to pick it.  It really couldn’t be much easier…No more waiting in those long post office lines. On March 6th I sent 4 Priority Mail packages.  Now their website clearly indicates that Priority [...]