Productivity

The digital age is a beautiful thing; we can get information about anything we like in almost any way we like at any time. We can consume up-to-the-minute content on the phones that we carry everywhere, we can get the latest posts by our favourite bloggers delivered to us by email (hint hint), we can follow events as they happen on Twitter, it's all at the tips of our … [Read more...] about Three Quick Ways To Cut Information Overload

If you believe the studies, social media is one of the key causes of lost productivity. I can believe it to a certain degree - whilst monitoring Twitter streams, I'm often at a loss as to how some people in this industry find the time to do any actual work - but if you're like me and use social media to find link building opportunities and creating relationships that can be … [Read more...] about Inside the Toolkit: Keeping Social Media Productive

It's been a while since I wrote about anything productivity-related here, so I'm going to be putting together a series of posts about tools I use to help me get my job done, but if you know me, you know I'm not going to put together the usual "Open Site Explorer, Raven, Basecamp" posts. Instead, I'm going to be taking you through some of the plugins, add-ons and extensions that … [Read more...] about Inside The Toolkit: My Gmail Setup

We've all been there; feeling like we're drowning in emails with no end in sight, wondering if your job title should be changed to "Professional Emailer" and being unsure how you're actually meant to do your job in between the Herculean task of replying to these messages that seem to mount up out of nowhere. If only you could empty out your inbox, you might actually get the … [Read more...] about Getting to Inbox Zero & Staying There