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Visual Note Taking 101 – Presentation at SXSW 2010

November 20, 2010

This is a fantastic recording of the visual note taking presentation at South by Southwest 2010 featuring Austin Kleon, Mike Rohde, Sunni Brown & Dave Gray. Visual Note-Taking 101 from SXSW 2010

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Designing, Building, and Running Your Own Personal Business System

November 16, 2010

At work, we have an army of administrators who manage all aspects of our company from HR, Finance, and IT. At home, it’s just my wife and me. In my opinion, automation is the only option. I just refuse to do manual processing. If it’s not automated, I’m not going to do it. I don’t [...]

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Why I Chose Evernote as My Document Management System

November 4, 2010

After going back and forth with several options for building out my personal document management system, I opted to sign up for a premium Evernote account. Before this, my options were: Do nothing and digitize documents on an ad hoc basis – too chaotic and disorganized. Store digital scans on Dropbox – files are not [...]

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Change your passwords, or you’ll be hacked

April 1, 2010

John from One Man’s Blog posted a very scary article on how he’d hack your weak passwords. Using sniffers and other brute force tools, he’d hack into low priority sites. Rather than hacking a bank account, which has greater tracking and security, he’d start with these low priority accounts, like Flickr. If you’re like most [...]

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Five ways to automate and outsource life

July 5, 2009
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As a consultant, I put in long hours and a lot of travel. By the time I get home, doing chores and household tasks isn’t on the top of my list. In an effort have more quality time during the weekends, rather than catching up on chores, I opted to engage in some outsourcing services. [...]

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Learning from Authors via Conference Calls

February 5, 2009
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A few months ago, I read a tweet regarding a teleconference with Guy Kawasaki, John Jantsch, and Penelope Trunk. It was to promote Guy’s new book “Reality Check.” Up to this point, I had no clue what Author Teleseminars were about, other than a few of my trusted twitter friends had posted a phone number and [...]

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Surviving an Economic Downturn: Improve Customer Service

January 24, 2009
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Every once in a while, you run across just exceptional customer service, above and beyond the regular call of duty. In the fast pace world we live in, we expect the cheapest service, removed from all human contact: self checkout at the grocery store, ATM’s, drive through oil changes, automated car washes. Recently, I encountered [...]

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Holiday Slow Down is a Good Time to Replan

December 26, 2008

Holidays are a great time to “Press the Reset Button On Your Life.” Whether you’re taking time off for Christmas, or protesting for a more inclusive holiday season free from religion, the fact is, that people are socializing, spending time with family, or on vacation. Other than the service industry, things do slow down, and [...]

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