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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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
Empty your inbox with Gmail filters
5 steps to emptying your e-mail inbox
Fix: How to prevent Chrome from hanging or freezing with WordPress and TinyMCE
In recent weeks I've had trouble using Chrome to post to my WordPress blog: after typing just a few words, Chrome froze and asked me to kill the page. Today I discovered that this is the result of a known issue with TinyMCE, which WordPress uses for WYSIWYG editing....
The Harvard Business Review
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
Empty your inbox with Gmail filters
5 steps to emptying your e-mail inbox
Fix: How to prevent Chrome from hanging or freezing with WordPress and TinyMCE
In recent weeks I've had trouble using Chrome to post to my WordPress blog: after typing just a few words, Chrome froze and asked me to kill the page. Today I discovered that this is the result of a known issue with TinyMCE, which WordPress uses for WYSIWYG editing....
OneZero
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
8 browser extensions that will make you more productive
JSTOR DAILY
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
8 browser extensions that will make you more productive
THE VERGE
What to tell your kids about dating before the Internet
Hey, old people! By which I mean: hey, people my age! If you've been wondering what dating wisdom you can usefully impart to your teenage or soon-to-be teenage kids, you should read Stephanie Martin's thoughtful post on Dating in the Social Media Age. Stephanie...
Don’t blame the Internet for infidelity
The Petraeus drama reflects the enticements and betrayals of our new, disembodied modes of discourse. The come-ons, the flirtations, the stalking, the alleged harassment: all were abetted by the deceptive cloak of cyberspace, and all were immortalized there. It’s a...
Smartphones have transported us from an offline third place
Public transit used to be a version of what Ray Oldenburg calls a “third place”: a neutral space, neither work nor home, in which conversation and community can unfold. Have smartphones changed that?
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...