Cheater’s Guide to LinkedIn

The linkedin.com referral networking organization is quickly becoming a leading way to land your next opportunity.

This article tell you how to make the most of it: Cheater’s Guide to LinkedIn

Email Processing Tips

Email is my main productivity tool. When you receive several hundred emails a day, processing these incoming messages quickly becomes a mission critical task! Being an advocate of Getting Thing Done, I’ve come to use the following techniques to process email.
1) Use Today, Later, Home, and Waiting For Categories

I make extensive use of Categories […]

Blogs and Search Engines

Blogs are the latest rage. The ‘blogosphere’ is almost a separate universe from the older search engine world. How can a blog drive traffic to your web site?
Post Compelling Content Frequently
Post a minimum of 3 articles a week or people won’t keep coming to your site. The content must be good, relevant, and free of […]

Search Engine Optimization Tips

Back in 1999, to get ranked in the search engines you’d need to go to each search engine directory, register your web site, and then optimize your metatags on your web page. Now that advice is no longer relevant. Most major search engines completely ignore the metatags of your page. Search engines ‘crawl’ the web […]

Best Productivity Sites

Want to revolutionize your life by getting productive? Getting Things Done is a great start. Here are some useful sites:

David Allen’s GTD site
a million monkeys typing blog and D*I*Y HipsterPDA Planner
43 Folders (especially this post)
Paper Based Workflow (great charts!)
Project Folders in Action
Wiki versions GTDTiddlyWiki and nextaction

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Fix Roaming SMTP Issue

Laptop users are increasingly having an issues due to ISPs disallowing SMTP servers besides the one they provide for security purposes. So laptop users end up needing to reconfigure their email settings every they switch networks. What a pain!
Here are some potential software solutions:
1) Use local (laptop based) SMTP software:
Free SMTP Server […]

Tool for 3×5 Card Notetakers

Another handy tool for you notetakers out there: 
 
A key Tinderbox lesson is simple: WRITE IT DOWN! Tinderbox is the tool for notes, but even Tinderbox can’t help you analyze and organize notes that you forgot.

Get it here: Eastgate: Briefcase
Add a Uniball Jetstream pen to your pocket (my personal favorite) and you’re In Like Flynt. 

Use Google Sitemaps to Increase Your Web Visibility

Search engines such as Google discover information about your site by employing software known as "spiders" to crawl the web. Once the spiders find a site, they follow links within the site to gather information about all the pages. The spiders periodically revisit sites to find new or changed content. Google Sitemaps exists to inform […]

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Wonder what www.sun.com or www.netscape.com looked like in 1996 or 1999? Take a trip back in time with the Internet Archive: Wayback Machine. Browse through 40 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.
Very cool. Also points out that once you post something to the web it lives forever. 

Firefox Continues to Spread

Firefox increased its market share to 8.71 percent, up from 8 percent in May, while IE’s share shrank to 86.56 percent from 87.23 percent,
As Firefox approaches the 10 percent market share milestone, it is expected to gain "significant traction" once its acceptance grows among corporations, according to NetApplications.com.

Full Article: PCWorld.com - Firefox […]