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Business Travel can be effective…
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Business Travel is sometimes very effective, when you use your time wisely. Rather than scheduling more tasks than you can handle, take the long term perspective and work from there to clear all the chave which doesn’t help you reach that goal. These slides when printed on flash cards can help you reach that goal.
I hope it creates value for you too!  The Essential Business Traveler
Print these slides on flashcards and use them to ensure you have a great trip.
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Time Management – Time to work on my dreams?
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Time Management is a handy tool, when applied correctly. Rather than using it to schedule more tasks than you can handle, take the long term perspective and work from there to clear all the chave which doesn’t help you reach that goal. I hope it creates value for you too!
Slowly sharing the presentations I’ve give in the past to SlideShare.  Time Management
Time to work on my dreams? Time Management Author: Daniel W. Crompton
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6 Months of Security Links #2011
I’m a regular curator of daily links, and like to give overviews of my collection of curated links and posts. This is partly as there are some good sources and articles in here and as I am working on a research project which I started based on a number of books I read.
I’m sure you’ll find something interesting in the items below – there are some gems in the list – and I dare to hazard the guess you might learn something you wanted to know. 🙂
A catalog of this year’s risky articles #2010
Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:
- Ignore
- Overreact
Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance
It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks…
@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner
It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie…
Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance
Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they…
Social Revolution – Do You Get It?
I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to …
Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking
Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne…
Company Policy or People #hr
I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac…
Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop
In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up…
Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google
I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so…
@Google, please stop with the language! #google
I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br…
Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin
For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar…
Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile
When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t…
GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard
On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th…
More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk
Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b…
Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet
I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is…
Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy
I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the …
China acquires more than China… #hacks
This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to …
Implementation of Security #risk
The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small…
ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk
Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r…
Musing: Why can I fly solo?
After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p…
Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
This year’s book reviews #2010
As always I read far more in 2010 than I blogged about, and most of the books I did blog about were treasures. I hope I inspired you to read at least one of them. And you have certainly noticed that I have added them all to the bookstore to make it easier for you to find out more about them.
Twipping Point #twitter
I’ve had this title in my head for about a week now, the title is natur…
Just Finished Reading: “Islands in the Net” #wikileaks #books #datahaven
I’m reading Bruce Sterling‘s Islands in the Net – Amazon de…
xkcd: Online Communities
As followers of mine will know I love xkcd, and he has some gems such as this…
Just Finished Reading “Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City” #books
I read Amsterdam: The Brief Life of a City by Geert Mak in English rather tha…
Just Finished Reading “Star Wars” #books
I’ve seen the film more than a dozen times, but I had yet to read Star …
Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Outcast of Redwall”
Brian Jacques‘s book Outcast of Redwallfollows Veil the ferret who is r…
Just Finished Reading “The Odessa File” #books
The Odessa File, by Frederick Forsyth, is another of the books I am keeping s…
Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Martin the Warrior” #books
Brian Jacques‘s book Martin the Warrior is another book from the Redwal…
Just Finished Reading “The Moon’s a Balloon” #books
I found The Moon’s a Balloon, by David Niven, in a box of old books. I …
Just Finished Reading “Redwall: Mossflower” #books
Mossflower by Brian Jacques is probably my favourite of the Redwall series, t…
Turn on, tune in, drop out: Personalised Online Education – Introduction #school #education
Timothy Leary once told us to “Turn on, tune in, drop out“, and a…
Just Finished Reading “Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA” #books
For some reason I had the book Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, by Br…
Just Finished Reading “Hitler: The Last Ten Days” #books
After having seen many films and read many books I expected that Hitler: The …
Thor the #Movie
One of my first real American comics was Thor, I really liked it. Sadly it re…
Just Finished Reading: “Wikinomics” #books #ontogenesis
I like Ontologies, Taxonomies and Folksonomies. I’m currently reading W…
Just Finished Reading “The Godfather” #books
I read Mario Puzo famed book The Godfather after having seen the movie a numb…
Just Finished Reading “Anathem” #books
As I previously said I bought Anathem at the same time I bought Cryptonomicon…
Just Finished Reading “Young Winston” #books
I borrowed a number of books from an aunt of mine, who reviewed these books f…
Just Finished Reading “The Big Yin” #books
I was standing in a secondhand book store with my father, and we wandered rou…
Just Finished Reading “Cryptonomicon” #books
As an early Christmas gift my father gave me vouchers he didn’t want to…
Just Finished Reading “The Snake”
The Snake is the first book I have read by John Godey, it was recommended to …
Just Finished Reading “Scrum and XP from the Trenches” #scrum #xp
In the company I work for they are introducing the Agile FrameWork, in the fo…
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Inspired by Productivity lifehacks mashable – I was reading a Mashable item on productivity[1] which contained som… http://ow.ly/1apslT
Inspired by Productivity #lifehacks #mashable
I was reading a Mashable item on productivity[1] which contained some interesting things that I will turn into a slideshow on this week.
Do NOT check your e-mail for the first 45 minutes that you are in the office in the morning. […] There are never meetings at that time and most people are settling in and reading their e-mails, […] — Amanda Feifer O’Brien, Marketing Manager at Firmenich Inc.
Take the first 30 minutes to plan the rest of your day. By plan, I mean make a list of the important tasks that you need to have done today and stay focused on these items. […] Make a list of the things that you want to achieve that day and work from that list until it’s completed. — Rohan Hall, Founder and CEO of rSitez, Inc
This is an excellent way to start the day, I have been using the 43 Folders system to unplan the year, this is my scheduled backlog, and take the day folder out and add this to my daily TODO list – which I write on Post-its. While creating the initial Post-its I like to create Post-its which contain:
- Lunch
- Coffee Break (x4)
- Snack Break (x2)
- Mail Break (x2)
And interspace these in the timeline of the day.
On my whiteboard I arrange the Post-its in the following grid:
First I take the Not Urgent and Not Important and bin them, obviously there is no reason to do them or they would have been graded differently.
Next I estimate the time and importance needed for the Urgent and Important tasks, and split the longer items into shorter tasks. Then I start the tasks by solving some of the important short tasks first to set the tone of the day to task completion, then I process the remaining tasks in order of importance. I like to use timeboxes for each of the tasks based on my estimates.
Next I estimate and complete the Not Urgent and Important items and don’t move on to estimating and completing the Urgent and Not Important until I’m finished.
Image source: Dennis Hamilton
Time Spend, is Time Earned #TimeManagement
People are amazed when I say I can spend at least 40 hours a week behind a computer, outside of my regular 9-5 job. Now I have a nice little proof of that from Wakoopa‘s usage page.
Software Usage On Wakoopa
The blue is all Internet, the brown Utilities and the purple is Office. It’s funny to see the last 6 weeks reduced to a simple graph, yet it is quite accurate in the depiction of my time. Most of my work does consist of using Internet for research and Utilities such as putty for my development work. The Pareto principle holds for this graph too, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes.
Application Usage On Wakoopa
As I was writing this I had a look at the Time Management presentation I put online last week and I saw that this data could also be used to assure yourself that you are meeting your targets. However this is all after the fact, where as with most of the Time Management techniques it is important to be able to change your actions while you are in the flow.
In my experience, and that of many others, evaluating the Time Management Journal takes some time to master. And in all honesty that is not where most can be won. The Time Management Success Journal is the place where most can be won, it should produce a graph similar to the one above. Obviously this would be tailored to the specific categories that were chosen.
SO how are you getting
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Time to work on my dreams? #LifeHacks
I’ve always been spending time on Time Management, I developed my own techniques and have borrowed some from Randy Pausch. I’ve been developing my own presentation for a lecture to be given to a group of beginning developers and systems administrators, and have adapted it for my blog.
You can find it on Blogger: Time to work on my dreams?
For more information have a look at Randy Pausch’s lectures:
The Essential Business Traveler #business #travel
I’ve been travelling professionally for a couple of years, I’m no expert like my friend Remco Hesper. He’s starting a blog on cultural differences when working in other cultures and how to mitigate the risks involved. (Something like that, right Remco.)
Inspired by his idea I put together a series of slides to help the first time and seasoned business travelers to prepare for their trip. Again a case of not being able to post this on WordPress, so find it on my Blogger. The Essential Business Traveler. Enjoy!
General Musing 