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Using Syncplicity and Dropbox to put Google Docs on your desktop
How to cope with your life as a social media celebrity
I think that, in a way, we're all sort of acting like celebrities have to act, where you have personal persona and a public persona. You think about what you want to share with your fans. I know that's how a lot of people feel about using Twitter, where, by default,...
Calling all geeks: Are you ready for the GeekOff challenge?
Working as a person of the female persuasion in the world of tech, I mostly do pretty well being surrounded by a lot of guys a lot of the time. My Women's Studies degree may not have fully prepared me for my day-to-day life, but I've found that I enjoy the energy of...
What’s really hurting your relationships?
Today's paper has an article about how hard it is to preserve tight family relationships in a world where we have so many other relationships. It offered 10 signs your friendships might be hurting your family relationships: You can't get through a meal without having...
Call for Papers: Social Media in Higher Education
The Internet and Higher Education has issued a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue on Social Media in Higher Education (PDF). The issue will be edited by Stefan Hrastinksi and Vanessa Dennen. In the call, the editors note: In this special issue, we would...
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.