Technology & Social Media
Sep
![Fresh Start: 12 Days of New Beginnings [Day 5: Technology & Social Media]](http://www.getorganizedwizard.com/wp-content/themes/wpremix2/timthumb.php?src=http://www.getorganizedwizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/2672214383_53db3c4d0f1.jpg&h=120&w=120&zc=1&q=100)
I’m going to make 12 fresh starts in 12 life areas over the next 12 days. I don’t expect to succeed at everything, but I want to give a bunch of things a try. Join me! Day 1: Personal Development My Day 1 Fresh Start was to raise my weights in Body Pump class for biceps and shoulders. Report: ✔ Raised weights on days I’ve had Pump class. My form [...]
Aug
![Getting Organized Quick Tip #6: How To Never Forget a Birthday or Anniversary [Outlook Users]](http://www.getorganizedwizard.com/wp-content/themes/wpremix2/timthumb.php?src=http://www.getorganizedwizard.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/image40.png&h=120&w=120&zc=1&q=100)
Can’t for the life of you remember important dates? Always in trouble for having no gift/card/ excuse on that special day? If you’re an Outlook user, this Get Organized Quick Tip will give you peace of mind – as well as getting you out of the doghouse and into the good books. Getting Organized Quick Tip #6: How To Never Forget a Birthday or Anniversary In a previous Get Organized [...]
Aug
Do you keep a constant pace when you exercise? Or do you prefer to intersperse power bursts with recovery phases? Whether you like to walk, run, jog, or row, you can introduce a simple version of interval training to your exercise routine. You don’t need to bother with complicated timings and stopwatches for this basic version. Simply follow the steps to create a playlist that does the work for you, [...]
Aug
Last week my computer’s motherboard died, leaving me unplugged and mostly offline. If you have a business or your computer contains important documents or precious photos, then you know how stressful this situation could be. But, although I missed my cyber-friends and felt bereft without Xander (my laptop), I made good use of the time, doing research for upcoming organizing products while the motherboard was being assembled and installed. The [...]
Would you like to share information on Facebook with family and personal friends, but not, say, with work colleagues?
You have control over your privacy settings in Facebook. Organizing your profile settings to determine who can see what is a simple two-step process:
1. Segment your Facebook friends into lists: Select from Family, Work, College, High School and other lists – or create your own…
Jul
What do you do when you find a good site or blog online?
The problem with bookmarking in your browser, or using social bookmarking sites, is that you have to keep returning to your bookmarked sites and looking for new information. A more time-effective strategy is to get updates and new information sent to you automatically. There are usually several ways you can receive updates from a website or blog automatically…
Jul
Social networking can eat up a lot of time, so good tools that help you to be more organized and time effective are worth noting. Here’s one I use every day to streamline my social media status updates. Getting Organized Quick Tip #3: Use Ping.fm to post your social network status updates. It’s uber-simple – here’s how: Open your free account with Ping.fm Set up the social networks you want [...]
Jul
Q: How do I social bookmark a post? A: Social bookmarking is a way to save and/or share links to websites, blog posts, articles or resources you find helpful. Social bookmarking sites, like Digg, Delicious, Technorati, Reddit, StumbleUpon and even Facebook, are great tools for organizing your favorite web resources, since you effectively ‘save’ the links you post. They’re also a cool way to share with others the web places [...]
Mar
This week I presented a webinar (sharing the cyber-stage with Facebook hotshot Mari Smith) on Social Networking for the Australian Businesswomen’s Network. Here’s an overview… 5 Simple Steps To Organizing Your Social Networking 1. Decide on your social networking objective – Why participate? 2. Choose your social networks – Twitter, Facebook, others? 3. Create a social networking strategy – Dos & Don’ts 4. Build your social network – Actively attract [...]
Jan
The 12 Days of New Year’s Resolutions This is Day 5 of The 12 Days of New Year’s Resolutions for Better Personal Organization I’m spending 12 days posting ideas for new year’s resolutions you might like to choose for yourself. Each day focuses on a different life area. Remember: go for progress, not perfection. Following is an edited extract from the introduction to Module 5: Managing Technology in Get Organized [...]
Nov
Okay, so you’ve turned off auto-receive and now only process (never check!) emails at scheduled times. Q: What do you do with your emails when you do process them? A: Deal with each new email in one of these ways: Action, Flag, File or Delete. The ONLY 4 things you should do with new email 1. Action Can you do what the email requires in a few minutes or [...]
Nov
Okay, so the title’s a smidge disingenuous. What I’m suggesting is that you abandon the tactic of email ‘checking’ – scanning subject lines and sender names, reading what catches your eye, sending the odd reply, all in a haphazard fashion. Why you should avoid ‘checking’ email 1. You double up effort and waste time Checking involves scanning, selectively opening and half-reading emails. But it leaves most message-related tasks incomplete. You [...]
Nov
I’m sure the last thing you want is a lecture on the importance of backing up or a tragic tale of lost files to hammer home the point. Rather, if/when you’re ready to take steps to organize your computer backups, here are 4 levels to consider… Organizing 4 degrees of computer preservation 1. Save often Use the autosave function. Also get into the habit of saving manually on [...]
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