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People Management

LinkedIn Jobs: If You Post It, They Will Come

By | Aug.29.11 | 1 Comment

I just hired a great new employee using LinkedIn Jobs. It turned out to be an incredibly easy and effective way to identify good candidates and fill the position with a minimum of[...]

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productivity

The Joys of join.me

By | Aug.04.11 | No Comments

Let's say you have a meeting scheduled with your client to review an important time-sensitive document. Moments before, your client calls to cancel because she's caught at home dur[...]

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TIME MANAGEMENT

Read Your Favorite Sites Without Leaving Outlook

By | Jun.16.11 | No Comments

Psssst. Wanna read your favorite website without leaving Microsoft Outlook? I’m not talking about subscribing to its newsfeed in Outlook, but setting up an Outlook folder that a[...]

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TECH TIP

Don’t Touch That Typo!

By | Jun.01.11 | 2 Comments

Want to know the single fastest way to speed up your typing? Stop manually correcting your typos as you’re writing. Just stop doing it! Correcting as you type is a surefire way[...]

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TECHNOLOGY

Outlook’s InfoBar: Under Your Nose, at Your Command

By | Apr.27.11 | No Comments

Microsoft Outlook’s Message InfoBar is often overlooked. That’s unfortunate because it’s a wellspring of, well, info! Understanding what the InfoBar does and how to use it ca[...]

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PRODUCTIVITY

The Importance of Being Trained

By | Mar.30.11 | 4 Comments

Let's say you’re preparing a huge brief or research paper. You research, craft and dictate it. Then you pass it on to your assistant for word processing with instructions to incl[...]

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