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19 Nov 09

Decoding Salesforce - The hows and whys of Salesforce.com

A great set of Salesforce Tips and Tricks. With code to match!

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10 Nov 09

15 Time Boxing Strategies to Get Things Done

A strategy of time management called time boxing. In short - limit the amount of time you work on each project.

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time boxing is the most effective time management tool that I know of.
time boxing is simply fixing a time period to work on a task or group of tasks. Instead of working on a task until it’s done, you commit to work on it for a specific amount of time instead.
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- 2. Get Rid of ‘Mosquito Tasks’
- A good strategy to claim back that energy is to create a time box and tackle all of them at one sitting.
- If you’re procrastinating on a task, forget about completing it: just put it in a time box instead.
- you set a minimum period of work, which you may extend as you like. For such type of time boxes,
- Perfectionism is the flip side of procrastination. Instead of avoiding a task, you dwell on it for so long that when you notice, all your time is gone. To avoid perfectionism and the effects of diminishing returns, having a definite cut-off time for a task is one of the best strategies you can use.
- Dealing with perfectionism demands what I call a ‘closed time box’: setting a maximum period of work.
- Isn’t it true that you get much more accomplished in one of those pre-vacation Fridays than on any other normal workday?
- our most efficient work is usually done at the end of a time period when there’s a very well-defined cut-off point.
- Sometimes I enjoy the freedom of an open outcome. Sometimes I just want to improve something — no specific, precise goal in mind.
- I think it’s healthy not being 100% objective all the time.
- Projects that require a high amount of creativity are not best tackled start-to-finish. The most effective way to deal with a project like this is to have an initial phase of immersion — a period when you generate a burst of ideas — and then forget about them for a while. By letting it go, you give time for the subconscious mind to work on the problem.
- My favorite work rhythm is alternating between blocks of 50 minutes of work and 10 minutes of rest.
- Working on your most important projects first thing in the morning is a classic tip to guarantee that you do meaningful work in your day. Create a time box to work on your dreams every day — before the world out there has a chance to disrupt your plans.

06 Nov 09

PowerPoint Tips - SpeakerNet News 11/6/2009

Best bit is on powerpoint color tips

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04 Oct 09

How to Live to 100 on Yahoo! Health

Tips on how to live to 100. Nice set of tips too.

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SpeakerNet News 10/2/2009

A series of quick tips on writing/publishing your book.

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Tips for budding authors
Unless you write a best-selling sex book, the likelihood of your being able to generate significant revenue from books is very low. My best year of royalties was about $35,000.
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- Your main reason for having a published book is to position yourself as an expert in your field.
- Lengthy books of several hundred pages are history. Most best-selling business books today are under 100 pages in length that include lots of pictorial and graphic illustrations.
- Content is still vitally important but it does not need to be beaten to death. Whether we like it or not, there are very few books today that are read cover to cover.
- Remember, however, that YOU get better as you grow in your speaking profession but the books and other publications you have already published do NOT get better. Whatever you publish needs to be something you will still be proud of 10 years later.
- For commercial publishing, my preference is going with a medium-size publisher rather than with one of the giants. Medium-size publishers are likely to provide more personalized treatment and key decision makers are more accessible. You will probably get little or no advance from them but a greater willingness to establish a specific promotional budget.
- Regardless of what the publisher may suggest, every clause in their "standard" contract is negotiable. A few things to keep in mind:
  
  You should reserve the right to publication, without the publisher’s permission, in any media that they do not provide.
  
  Insist on being a part of the final decision regarding title, cover, and jacket copy.
  
  Be certain you have the right to purchase the books at bulk prices and that you may sell the books yourself.
- Set a goal for yourself for when you will schedule time for writing, and stick to it
- If you’re struggling with storing rolled up flip chart pages from/for various events, put them in an umbrella stand.

24 Jul 09

Twitter 101 for Business — A Special Guide

About time they came out with this

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17 Jul 09

Spying on the Text Generation - The Boston Globe

Several real life stories of how parents are handling their "Always On" teens in a world of technology

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One mom does her best surveillance work in the laundry room.
Effective detective work? Absolutely. Effective parenting? That's less clear.
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- Teenage Research Unlimited, one-quarter of teens admitted to having texted or called their boyfriend or girlfriend hourly between midnight and 5 a.m.
- teenagers live in a state of continuous connection
- MIT professor Sherry Turkle is a leading thinker on the relationship between human beings and technology.
- "Parents were not built to know the kinds of things that technology makes possible."
- Some 75 percent of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 have cellphones, according to a 2008 survey by the research firm Yankee Group
- In Norway, according to Telenor/Statistics Norway, 87 percent of 10-year-olds now have their own cellphone
- allows direct, adult- circumvented communication at any time, whether under the desk during class or under the covers at home after lights out.
- "For grown-ups, intimacy involves a kind of privacy. For teens, they're coming up with a kind of intimacy that doesn't depend on privacy."
- (Two other things most teens I know increasingly have little use for: e-mail and voice mail. They see e-mail as something akin to the rotary phone in an elderly neighbor's house: usable if necessary, but why would you choose it when there are so many better options? And they see leaving or checking voice-mail messages as a waste of time that only parents seem to indulge, since caller ID makes it clear who called you, and texting makes it easy to transmit information.)
- Much has been made of how this interconnectivity is making teens more independent. But Turkle has come to the opposite conclusion. "The parent is always on speed dial,"
- No one is added to Jackie's IM "Buddy List" without Su- san's approval, and that list includes Susan, so she can always tell when her daughter is online.
- Jackie is allowed to visit only those websites that Susan has approved, and Susan receives a daily report of Jackie's online activity. About once a week, she logs on to Jackie's account to eyeball her e-mails and any instant messages her daughter has saved.
- "A lot of my contemporaries are reluctant to police their children's activities," Susan says. "I don't stand over her with a shotgun, but I do believe in being diligent."
- My Mobile Watchdog, which sends parents real-time copies on their own cellphones of every text message and picture sent or received on their child's phone.
- To make things more manageable, parents can elect not to receive copies of texts from people they "approve."
- he's found that predators "are moving from the PC to the cellphone" because carriers generally expunge text messages after a week or two. That makes it easier for predators to avoid getting caught.
- Teenagers have gotten pretty savvy at sussing out who is a complete stranger online.
- he knew they had been spying on him, and it didn't take long for him to determine they'd been doing it for some time. "He was pretty angry," Sam says, "He felt kind of invaded.
- "WU," "NMU," "JC" - shorthand for "What's up?" "Not much, you?" "Just chillin'
- his generation, which has refashioned the concept of time into a series of interruptions so constant that they hardly seem like interruptions anymore
- Edline, the service that Xaverian Brothers and schools across the country use to give parents continual e-mail updates on their children's academic performance.
- Calling it his "fear of God" speech, Greg warned them, "I can know everything you're doing online. But I'm not going to invade your privacy unless you give me a reason to."
- y relying on the threat of intervention rather than intervention itself, Greg has been able to avoid the drawbacks that several friends of mine told me they experienced after monitoring their teenagers' IM and text conversations.
- these parents came to the conclusion that it would be impossible for them not to think less of their kids if they continued to listen in, and that would be unfair, because their own parents never had transcripts of their teen conversations and were no worse for not knowing.
- social theorist Erving Goffman is instructive. Goffman talked about how we all have "front-stage" and "backstage" personas.
- "Everyone needs to be able to retreat to the backstage," Palen says. "These kids need to learn. Maybe they need to use bad language to realize that they don't want to use bad language. If parents are always going to be monitoring, their kids are always going to be front-stage."
- When teens get into uncomfortable territory online, they need to turn to parents for guidance and perspective. And the parents who seem connected to technology, rather than advertising their disconnect like an ever-blinking 12:00 on a VCR clock, are going to be better equipped to help.
- The Mac that Hayley uses sits in the high-traffic dining room, allowing them to keep tabs on her just by walking by.
- Because kids can remain in the loop with whole groups of their friends without actually being next to them, the urge to always be out of the house isn't as intense as it was in the days when kids roamed the town, unpoliced in packs, until curfew.

6 Things You Need to Know About Cyberbullying | Radical Parenting

6 (rather basic) tips on cyberbullying

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2) Instant
there is no ‘off’ time and the second something happens, everyone knows about it
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- Teens are checking these services CONSTANTLY, so before what took a few days to spread, now can take a few minutes.
- 3) Permanent
- 4) Accessible
- 5) Cool
- 6) Buffered
- It is really hard to walk up to someone and say to them: “You are a fat slut.” It is much easier to write that on someone’s Facebook wall

13 Jul 09

Internet Safety: The mistake of talking down to kids » Moving at the Speed of Creativity

His review of a Internet Safety Video and then suggesting some of his own tips for parents

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1- Have clear boundaries for all digital technologies: TVs, MP3 players, cell phones, land line phones, computers, DVD players, console game systems, handheld game systems.

2- Beware if/when your child quickly closes a computer window when you come into the room or look over their shoulder. If they have something to hide, you both need to talk about it openly and honestly.

3- Get an account on the social networking sites your kids are using, make them make you a “friend” so you can fully see their profile and connect to their friends.

4- If the social networking sites your child uses permit them to make a “limited profile,” have them choose that option.

5- Don’t lie about your age when you register for something online. (This goes for all kids as well as parents.)

6- Use kid-appropriate search engines for Internet research. Examples: Nettrekker, Yahoo Kids

7- Use kid-appropriate social networking websites (and still practice safe usage guidelines). Examples: Imbee, Webkinz, Club Penguin, Think.com

8- Be wary of advertising-intensive websites.

9- Be aware of proxy site availability and use. Ultimately there is NOT a technological solution for the “worst case” scenario of kids being kidnapped or running away from home. Open lines of communication with trusted and supportive adults is the best and only viable way to address this scenario.

10- Before kids go to a friend’s house and especially before a sleepover, discuss Internet safety just like you would discuss gun safety. Also ask the parents of the friend:

– What are your computer and Internet access rules at your house?

– Do you let your children get online in their bedroom?

– Do you have a content filter installed on your home computer or on your home network?

12 Jul 09

Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change

a religious based counterpoint speech on why technology is dangerous.

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what might happen to faith in
the new millennium
Henry David Thoreau told
us: "All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end."
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- There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has
  always been, and it is a delusion to believe that the technological
  changes of our era have rendered irrelevant the wisdom of the ages and the
  sages.
- history of technological change
- The first idea is that all technological change is a trade-off.
- the
  greater the wonders of a technology, the greater will be its negative
  consequences.
- Think of the automobile, which for all of its obvious advantages, has
  poisoned our air, choked our cities, and degraded the beauty of our
  natural landscape.
- second idea, which is that the advantages and
  disadvantages of new technologies are never distributed evenly among the
  population.
- in the long run, television may
  bring an end to the careers of school teachers since school was an
  invention of the printing press and must stand or fall on the issue of how
  much importance the printed word will have in the future.
- Then they told them that
  computers will make it possible to vote at home, shop at home, get all the
  entertainment they wish at home, and thus make community life unnecessary.
- third. Embedded in every technology there is a powerful
  idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. These ideas are often hidden
  from our view because they are of a somewhat abstract nature. But this
  should not be taken to mean that they do not have practical consequences.
- fourth idea: Technological change is not additive; it is
  ecological
- Capitalists are,
  in a word, radicals
- In America, our most significant radicals have always
  been capitalists--men like Bell, Edison, Ford, Carnegie, Sarnoff, Goldwyn.
  These men obliterated the 19th century, and created the 20th, which is why
  it is a mystery to me that capitalists are thought to be conservative.
  Perhaps it is because they are inclined to wear dark suits and grey ties.
- fifth and final idea, which is that media tend to
  become mythic.
- Pope John Paul II. He said, "Science can
  purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science
  from idolatry and false absolutes."
- The best way to view technology is as a strange intruder, to
  remember that technology is not part of God's plan but a product of human
  creativity and hubris, and that its capacity for good or evil rests
  entirely on human awareness of what it does for us and to us.
- five ideas about technological change. First, that
  we always pay a price for technology; the greater the technology, the
  greater the price. Second, that there are always winners and losers, and
  that the winners always try to persuade the losers that they are really
  winners. Third, that there is embedded in every great technology an
  epistemological, political or social prejudice. Sometimes that bias is
  greatly to our advantage. Sometimes it is not. The printing press
  annihilated the oral tradition; telegraphy annihilated space; television
  has humiliated the word; the computer, perhaps, will degrade community
  life. And so on. Fourth, technological change is not additive; it is
  ecological, which means, it changes everything and is, therefore, too
  important to be left entirely in the hands of Bill Gates. And fifth,
  technology tends to become mythic; that is, perceived as part of the
  natural order of things, and therefore tends to control more of our lives
  than is good for us.

10 Jul 09

Cable in the Classroom - Social Networking

A nice collection of basic howto stuff for beginner parents on understanding and parenting online. Mostly talks about Myspace, not Facebook

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A Parent’s Perspective to Social Networking [Guest Post] | Radical Parenting

Not too much insight here, except the one quote I highlighted which i like.

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Allowing my daughter a MySpace account also forces me to face the world that my children are going to be living in!

MySpace's 4 Tips for Parents to talk about Web Safety

1) Start a convo
2) Report inappropriate Behavior
3) Talk about the internet
4) Remind teens to be cautious

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MySpace's Page for Parents about Cyberbullying

Myspace's quick overview with tips of CB with links to two top websites to learn more.

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The most common place cyberbullying occurs is over instant messenger,
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- For more information and resources about how to talk to your kids about cyberbullying, please visit the following sites:
  http://www.cyberbully411.com/
  http://www.isolutions4kids.org/

Plugged in Parent: Parental faux pas on Facebook

One Parent's suggestions on how to be a parent on FB with an account. Basic Idea - take common sense parenting and apply it online.

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few basic rules for parents of teens on Facebook
Let teens come to you.
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- Post comments prudently.
- Don’t make comments about everything you see
- that kids are also talking this way on the bus, acting this way in school hallways, too, like kids have done for centuries as they explore adolescence.
- If the bad language and links are coming from your child, by all means call them out on it. But do it face to face and in private, never post a reprimand on their Facebook
- Watch what you post on your page, too
- Let them go if they boot you off. At some point, your child may want to “un-friend” you. Don’t take it personally.
- But applying basic parental intuition from the brick and mortar world to online hangouts is important.