Here’s seven common time wasters that he says writers (and I say everybody) should avoid. 1. Excessive blogging
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Here’s seven common time wasters that he says writers (and I say everybody) should avoid. 1. Excessive blogging
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@Shel Holtz, has written a cracker of a post about how to use social media to actually SAVE time at work
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Most things we do are on a need to know basis. If you have not completed step number two, you do not need to know what step number three is
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by Lee Hopkins on February 16, 2009 · 0 comments
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No matter what you do, when you do it, someone will take a video of it with their cell phone.
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If you don’t cough up more dosh then I will NOT shave it off!! AND I’ll come to your office or home late at night and knock on your door. Do you really want to see something like this scary ol’ geezer turn up at 11 at night?
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What to do, what to do… My beloved hiptop3 is on its final legs; the blue roller button doesn’t work as an ‘enter’ key anymore, so it is just one more key-press to get things to send, receive, move around the phone, etc. The inbuilt camera and the web browser have always been lousy, so [...]
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Courtesy of the Crabby Office Lady (who’s name I like to think is ‘Grizelda’), comes ten great insider clues to using Office more effectively. My two favs: Feature #5: I know what I mean: AutoCorrect I type "Crabby Office Lady" a lot; all day long, in fact. But since I’ve created an AutoCorrect entry for [...]
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I’ve been absolutely hammered: first by workload, then by a head cold that makes a ‘man cold’ look like something other people get. But I’m back on track now… promising you that posting will be more regular from now on as I once again grapple with getting myself more organised, courtesy of GTD and 43 [...]
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The team at David Allen & Co have written a whitepaper on how to get the best out of Outlook 2007 with the GTD philosophy in mind. The cost is only US$10. The whitepaper covers: Using Outlook Tasks as an action list manager Making your lists portable Using the Calendar as a critical foundation for [...]
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by Lee Hopkins on July 17, 2008 · 0 comments
This has been bugging me for months, but it was only today that I actually googled it. Voila! Now I just have to practice to get mine looking this good: Fold A Fitted Sheet With Perfectly Squared Corners – The most amazing bloopers are here Technorati Tags: how to fold a fitted sheet, soho, domesticity, [...]
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Tactical Transparency by Shel Holtz and John Havens.
A belter of a book and a 'must read' addition to any communicator's bedside reading table if they are serious about introducing social media into their communication plans. It includes a fabulous chapter on transparency and business (hint: you want to photocopy it and give it to your CEO!)

Qualitative Communication Research Methods by Thomas Lindlof and Bryan Taylor.
Not just a book for academics, it's chock-full of great ideas on how to effectively and efficiently research your employees, customers, the marketplace and other stakeholders

The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.
A fabulous book that gives a clear, clean overview of what Twitter is and WHY you should be engaging with it. THEN it goes into depth with so many tips and ideas that they should have sold the book for twice the price!
Practical SEO Copywriting: a ‘must get’ book. My mate Glenn Murray has written a bottler of a new book on search engines and copywriting.
In a cunning twist of bizarre nomenclature, he’s titled it Practical SEO Copywriting. The cheeky little fox! It’s a DIY guide to writing online copy for both human readers AND for that 400kg gorilla we lovingly call ‘Google’.
The danger, Glenn quite rightly …err …writes is that focusing too much attention on all of the supposed SEO ‘tricks of the trade’ will make your copy all but unreadable by the human brain. You know, all that stuff bandied about by the so-called SEO (search engine optimisation) experts: keyword frequency, exact string versus individual words scattered across the page, page length, alt tags, header tags, and so on.
Not that this stuff isn’t important – it all is, and more besides – but Glenn argues persuasively that by far more important is the ability to write copy that people will actually want to read – and link to!