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Organize Your Digital Life 4 – Organize Your Files

December 10, 2009

This is the fourth in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series.
If you’re like most people, you have files on your computer everywhere. Programs, spreadsheets, documents, presentations, logos, ebooks, pdfs, and a variety of other stuff. Even if you have it well-organized, you probably have two big problems:

You can’t access it [...]

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Organize Your Digital Life 3 – Calendar management

December 9, 2009

This is the third in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series.
Calendars are one of the areas that most people seem to have pretty well under control. Your inbox might be a mess, your task list consists of 27 post-it notes, and you have no idea where the photos from last [...]

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Organize Your Digital Life 2 – Keep up with the sites you care about

December 8, 2009

This is the second in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series.
If you’re like most folks, you have a lot of websites to keep up with. For example, here are some of the sites that I try to stay updated with:

My first grade daughter’s teacher’s blog
My wife’s blog
My favorite sports team [...]

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Organize Your Digital Life 1 – Get Control of Your Email

December 7, 2009

This is the first in a series of posts in the Organize Your Digital Life series.
Email is becoming an overwhelming problem for a lot of people. Many clients I visit have thousands of emails in their inbox, and getting a grip on it seems completely hopeless. There are two things that you can do to [...]

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Disney’s technology was surprisingly lacking

December 1, 2009

Our recent trip to Disney World was great — we had a blast! However, a few things struck me as very technologically inferior and I thought I’d share them here.
First, though, I’ll touch on what they did right. The card they give you when you check-in is amazing. This single card allows you to:

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Gowalla destroys FourSquare when traveling

November 30, 2009

Before I left for Disney, I considered Gowalla and Foursquare to be about the same. They both let you “check in” at various places (restaurants, stores, etc) and both have a bit of a game aspect to them. Foursquare is based on cities and addresses, while Gowalla is based entirely on GPS. While I’m in [...]

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Reorganizing my lifestream

November 28, 2009

Lately I’ve had a hard time keeping up with what services cross-post to each other. If I send a status update to Twitter, does it auto-post to Facebook? If I send a picture to Posterous, does it go to Flickr? What about FriendFeed? I had I set up so many different tools that I was [...]

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Keeping up with life while at Disney

November 27, 2009

Tony Dye had an interesting question for me: Aren’t you @ Disney, with the fam? How in the world are you doing this much research and twitter work?
I’ll try my best to answer it.
First, it’s important to realize where your time is spent as Disney World. The chart on the right should help explain. [...]

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The perfect Twitter client?

November 18, 2009

Robert Scoble posted a thought-provoking entry today about his quest for the perfect Facebook/Twitter client. I’ve been on a similar quest, so I was hoping he had a great answer. Sadly, he didn’t.
I’ve been a TweetDeck user for a while now. I really like it, but I’m always hunting for something better. I’ve become a [...]

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