Publications
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
9 essential tools for getting tasks out of your inbox
AFTER e-mail: 5 steps to moving task management out of your inbox
How the other half goes offline
Between the Christmas break and the season of New Year's resolutions, I was braced for a flurry of blog posts about the merits of unplugging -- a phenomenon I was already tired of by the end of last summer, as I wrote about for HBR. So imagine my delight when I read...
Today in HBR: 6 social media choices you have to make in 2011
What am I choosing to do on the Web? That's one of the key choices you'll need to make this year, as we set the course for how social media will integrate into our lives and reshape the world. In my blog post today for HBR, Social Media in 2011: Six Choices You Need...
5 life lessons you can learn from emptying your inbox
You’ve probably got a handful of e-mails that are still in your inbox because you are, on some level, avoiding them. These e-mails, more than anything else, illuminate your core personal or professional blocks. Forcing yourself through them — the way you have to in order to empty your inbox — is not just a path to e-mail efficiency, but a very meaningful exercise in character-building. Here are some of the lessons that may lie waiting in your inbox.
4 steps to unsubscribing from unwanted e-mail
How to create Gmail labels that help empty your e-mail inbox
Day 6: Stop using your e-mail inbox as a post-it
TV for multi-tasking: 10 shows to help process your e-mail
21 Gmail filters that will empty your e-mail inbox
The Harvard Business Review
9 essential tools for getting tasks out of your inbox
AFTER e-mail: 5 steps to moving task management out of your inbox
How the other half goes offline
Between the Christmas break and the season of New Year's resolutions, I was braced for a flurry of blog posts about the merits of unplugging -- a phenomenon I was already tired of by the end of last summer, as I wrote about for HBR. So imagine my delight when I read...
Today in HBR: 6 social media choices you have to make in 2011
What am I choosing to do on the Web? That's one of the key choices you'll need to make this year, as we set the course for how social media will integrate into our lives and reshape the world. In my blog post today for HBR, Social Media in 2011: Six Choices You Need...
5 life lessons you can learn from emptying your inbox
You’ve probably got a handful of e-mails that are still in your inbox because you are, on some level, avoiding them. These e-mails, more than anything else, illuminate your core personal or professional blocks. Forcing yourself through them — the way you have to in order to empty your inbox — is not just a path to e-mail efficiency, but a very meaningful exercise in character-building. Here are some of the lessons that may lie waiting in your inbox.
4 steps to unsubscribing from unwanted e-mail
How to create Gmail labels that help empty your e-mail inbox
Day 6: Stop using your e-mail inbox as a post-it
TV for multi-tasking: 10 shows to help process your e-mail
21 Gmail filters that will empty your e-mail inbox
OneZero
7 lessons about our online future from our online past
Bing helps us search for the meaning in our tech choices
The 9 secrets of a successful marriage (to a web application like Evernote)
Why we need to remember life before the Internet
The Lonely Princess: A Social Media Fairy Tale
Wondering how you can get your kids to think about the pros and cons of social media and social networking? This fairy tale introduces the joys of life online and the stakes of choosing between different online communities.
8 ways writers can make the most of online video
What we can learn from delicious and the tagging revolution
6 web technologies that don’t suck anymore
JSTOR DAILY
7 lessons about our online future from our online past
Bing helps us search for the meaning in our tech choices
The 9 secrets of a successful marriage (to a web application like Evernote)
Why we need to remember life before the Internet
The Lonely Princess: A Social Media Fairy Tale
Wondering how you can get your kids to think about the pros and cons of social media and social networking? This fairy tale introduces the joys of life online and the stakes of choosing between different online communities.
8 ways writers can make the most of online video
What we can learn from delicious and the tagging revolution
6 web technologies that don’t suck anymore
THE VERGE
6 ways to speed up your social media response times
Speed is essential to developing the right social media campaign, response or update. In my last post, I looked at how the right kind of market research program can support faster and more responsive social media management, inspired by The Quick and the Dead, a new...
Why the speed of research matters in social media
How quickly do you have to reply to a critical tweet? How long does it take for the right video to go viral? How often do you have to update your company's Facebook page? Speed is at the heart of many of the questions that come up over and over again in social media....
Should copyediting be part of your social media strategy?
I'll admit it: I'm a grammar nazi. When I see a poorly punctuated tweet, I cringe, and when I see a blog post with a comma splice in the title, I want to tear my hair out. I've fantasized about a supper club for copy editors -- the folks like me and my husband, who...
A new path to social media insight at Vision Critical
People who post frequently on Facebook and Twitter are more than 3 times as likely to care about being the most fashionable person in the room, compared to more passive social media users. That was one of the surprising findings that came out of a major social media...