Work Smart 2: How to Take Smart Meeting Notes Welcome to the second season of Work Smart with Gina Trapani. This week, Suhasini Kotcherlakota, an instructional designer at the UNMC College of Nursing in Omaha, NE, asks for smart advice on taking thorough meeting notes. Gina offers her tips, and then calls on Brad Isaac of Persistence Unlimited to learn his techniques.
Updated Mon Apr 11, 2011
Work Smart 2: Password Protection Think about the number of passwords you use. If it's just one or two, you're not storing your data securely. More likely, you've got anywhere from six to a dozen. But how do you strike a balance between convenience and security?
Updated Mon Apr 11, 2011
Work Smart 2: Stop Wasting Time Getting Productive If you're watching this video series, you're interested in new ways to be more productive--but when does your obsession with efficiency become a waste of time? In this week's episode of Work Smart 2, Bill Clark asks how you actually work smarter when you spend time learning new productivity tricks. I share my favorite tool for keeping yourself honest, and then asked author of productivity bible Getting Things Done David Allen for his thoughts.
Updated Mon Apr 11, 2011
Work Smart 2: Stay Connected While Telecommuting Working remotely is so liberating--you get to do what you do best, in a location of your choice, without your co-workers or boss always looking over your shoulder. But telecommuting also requires a lot more effort when it comes to maintaining relationships and connections with people back at the office.
Updated Mon Apr 11, 2011
Work Smart 2: Perfect Your Digital Document Filing System Scanning your stacks of paper to digital documents is a huge project, and you want to make sure all that information will be as easy to find on your hard drive as it is in your filing cabinet.
Updated Mon Apr 11, 2011
Work Smart 2: Is Google Apps for Business For You? [video_twistage 1]
Nowadays, moving your businesses' IT solution to a hosted cloud-based service--like Google Apps for business--is all the rage. But does it make sense for your (very) small business? In this week's episode, sole proprietor and Google user Roland Young asks if Google Apps for Business is right for his business. I share the advantages of using Google Apps over an individual Google account, and Michael Milton chimes in his advice for Roland.
Updated Fri Apr 8, 2011
Work Smart 2: What Projects Are Worth Working On? Ideas are cheap. Execution is what matters. But how do you choose which ideas are worth sinking time and money into and actually executing on? Idea guy Bryan Serven asks the question every entrepreneur has wrestled with.
Updated Fri Apr 8, 2011
Work Smart 2: Time Management Tips for Mac Users Want to get organized? First you need to find a great task manager to organize all your to-do's in one place. In this week's episode, entrepreneur, student and Mac user Quintin Carlson asks for the best to-do list application to organize his busy life.
Updated Fri Apr 1, 2011
Work Smart 2: Improving Your Organization's Social Media Presence Organizations using social media, there's something you must know: getting thousands of Facebook fans or Twitter followers isn't as important as what you do with them. In this week's episode of Work Smart, an important charity in my town asks how they can improve their online presence.
Updated Fri Apr 1, 2011
Work Smart 2: Best Blogging Tools for a Beginner [video_twistage 1]
Starting a blog in 2010 involves a tough decision: what publishing system to use. Today, a plethora of mature blogging tools produce beautiful websites and involve a range of features, from simple, no-nonsense microblogs to deep sites with custom themes, comments, and content widgets. In this week's episode of Work Smart, pharmacy student Arsenio Martin asks for help planning his upcoming tech blog. I give him my advice (hint: start simple but have an escape plan) and blogging expert Thursday Bram offers her take.
Updated Fri Apr 1, 2011
DoubleTwist Leapfrogs iPhone With Wireless Sync
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Android may be the fastest growing mobile OS in the U.S., but its built-in media player still pales in comparison to iTunes. Happily for Android users, third-party app doubleTwist now offers something iPhone owners wish they had: wireless syncing.
Updated Tue Dec 7, 2010
Google Hotpot Powers Local Recommendations (Watch Out, Yelp)
With Marissa Mayer at the helm of geo and local services for just over a month now, Google launches Hotpot, a local recommendations engine where you rate your favorite places and see the places your friends like, too.
Tue Nov 16, 2010
Field Notes From the FCC's First-Ever Hack Day On Monday, over 100 developers converged at FCC headquarters for a 9-hour collaborative hack day, with the goal of making software that employs the APIs and datasets the FCC makes available to the public.
Tue Nov 9, 2010
5 Alternative Android Keyboards Speed Up Mobile Touch Typing Let's face it: Typing on your touchscreen mobile phone with your big fat fingers is still too difficult and error-prone. Five alternate Android keyboards aim to make text entry on a tiny touchscreen faster and easier using a variety of methods, from radical redesigns to smarter predictive text.
Mon Nov 8, 2010
"Firesheep," "Idiocy" Reveal Gaping Privacy Holes in Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, More This week, security experts put pressure on companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and Google to close a gaping privacy hole.
Fri Oct 29, 2010
App Store Politics: Dictatorship Versus Democracy Two big announcements this week will change the way you get software on your desktop and in your web browser. Apple's Apps for Mac you may know about. But Mozilla (developers of the Firefox browser) also revealed plans for its webapp store.
Fri Oct 22, 2010
How to Backup Your Social Media Life Now that Facebook has made it easy to download the data you've entered on the site, what about the other social networks into which you pump photos, status updates, and messages to your friends? How can you download your stuff on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Flickr?
Tue Oct 19, 2010
An App That Makes Android Smarter Than Ever Imagine turning off your ringer by just setting your phone on the table face down, or automatically texting your spouse when you reach the nearest train station without taking the phone out of your pocket. Tasker can do all this and more.
Fri Oct 8, 2010
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