A constant complaint we hear around the office is that emails we receive (and sometimes send) are poorly written or unclear. According to "How to Write a Perfect Email", when writing an email that warrants a reply, there are four key components to get a quick and valid response: 1. [...continue reading]
> Personal > ProductivityBest Practices in Writing Emails–Policy for a Multinational Corporation
Our new parent company, Evalueserve, is highly dependent on email for internal and external communications. They also hire every year hundreds of recent graduates (particularly in India, China, and Chile) who are usually not familiar with the protocols of business communication via email. The [...continue reading]
Bit Literacy
I'm a longtime fan of the design philosophy and work of CreativeGood. Every time I've written a web design spec, I've required the designers to look at that site. Mark Hurst, founder of Creative Good and Good Experience, and host of the Gel conference (Good Experience Live), has just released his [...continue reading]
RetailMeNot: Retail coupons for online stores
The creator of BugMeNot.com has launched http://www.retailmenot.com/, which provides coupon codes for retail stores, without the privacy-infringing registration requirements. A very useful tool. Many online stores allow for a "coupon" or "promotion" code when you order to automatically assign [...continue reading]
Secure your checked bags: fly with a gun
For people who are really sick of losing bags, try flying with a gun. It works for this photographer: A "weapons" is defined as a rifle, shotgun, pistol, airgun, and STARTER PISTOL. Yes, starter pistols - those little guns that fire blanks at track and swim meets - are considered weapons...and [...continue reading]
Microsoft Office online—without Microsoft
Do you want to break free of Microsoft's grip? Use exclusively web-based apps, most of them free? If you do, try reviewing Ismael Ghalimi's list of 'best-of-breed' web apps, which together provide a reasonable approximation of the Microsoft Office [...continue reading]
Google SMS
A useful service I've been playing with is Google SMS: Google SMS is a new service that enables you to search for certain kinds of information with Google from a mobile phone or handheld device (such as a Blackberry), and returns your search results as text messages. Get phone book listings, movie [...continue reading]
Roundup of Sleep Hacks (Sleeping more efficiently)
* Get to sleep faster * Tackle problems in your sleep * Take efficient power naps * Take a caffeine nap * Get baby to sleep through the night * Sleep on an airplane * Get up when you really want to * Hold that thought till morning * Relax with Pzizz more... [...continue reading]
