To-Do Lists – Helpful or Useless?

Published by in Business Advice, Management on January 25th, 2012

I like my whiteboard – when I have room to have one on my office wall. I usually dutifully list my tasks I need to do – and then promptly forget about it! It makes me feel good that I made my To-Do List, but it factors in only a portion of my organizational planning. Why? To-Do Lists Overwhelming? If I added all of my tasks on my To-Do List, I would simply get overwhelmed by all that needs to be done, and then I would get started on the easiest task first. I follow another method – its called

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First Day of the Week: Sunday or Monday?

Published by in Engineering, Human Factors, Usabiliity on January 24th, 2012

I am sure you have wondered about this. Is Sunday or Monday the first day of the week? If you haven’t, then you haven’t bought a calender in Canada and sent it as a gift to someone in Germany. Coming from Canada, the calendar week always started on Sunday. Now, living Germany, I have to get used to writing my calendar notes not on Tuesday when I meant to write it on Monday! Confusing? It is for me. Sometime back in 2001 when I first moved to Berlin, I walked into my doctor’s office expecting to see my doctor. The

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Facebook, the Basis of the Future World Economy?

Published by in Business Advice, Human Factors, Law on January 11th, 2012

What do you think? Is Facebook a social networking site or a tool for businesses, marketing, advertising, and Brand Makers to mine the data? This video talks about Facebook as an Economy. Is Facebook developing its own world currency, Facebook Credits , a virtual currency which will determine how people trade, sell information, and buy and sell products and services? Will Facebook’s networks be a new world reality and how the world economy will operate in the future, through the harnessing of the massive amount of connections made between people? This video raises as many questions as answers.

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How to Work from Home

Published by in Business Advice on January 9th, 2012

I found a useful article on the FastCompany website that sums up the key problems of working from home. Kevin Purdy, the author, zeros in on making a home office work – MEAN IT! Work is work, whether in a company office or a home office. Behave in a home office as if it was a company office. He advises: Look the Part, Be the Part – Dress for Success is not a buzz word. It sets the mind. He says, if you aren’t dressed for the UPS guy, you aren’t in the right frame of mind for working. Schedule

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The 400 Most Influential in #Techcomm and #ContentStrategy

Published by in Technical Writing on January 8th, 2012

The MindTouch website has published a list of the 400 most influential Technical Writers and Content Strategy Developers on Twitter. The top ten are as follows: @tomjohnson Technical writer, blogger, podcaster in Salt Lake City, Utah @sarahokeefe Principal at scriptorium.com, XML strategist, cook, occasional kayaker, terrible quilter @techcommdood Technical communication, content strategy, content management, technical writing… There’s so much more I could list. I’m all about technical communication. @rjacquez Former Adobe Senior Evangelist. Writing an eBook on what I learned at Adobe. Social Media Enthusiast. Loving the mobile revolution, #eLearning & #mLearning. @stc_org Society for Technical Communication @annegentle Author of

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Empty Your WordPress Cache!

Published by in WordPress on January 8th, 2012

I found a rather annoying “feature” of WordPress. When your dashboard gives you a message to empty your cache, do it! Since early December my website kept showing the same list of posts, and the menu did not reflect the changes I made. What to do? Don’t do as I did and start deleting the Internet Explorer and FireFox caches, and think that should do it. Check your WordPress Dashboard. If you see a message saying Empty your Cache, just do it and don’t ignore the message. It is possible the cache is full and cannot accept any more changes

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EPUB Standard – Publishing to Mobile Devices

Published by in FrameMaker, Mobile, Technical Writing on January 8th, 2012

From the FrameMaker Blog: About the EPUB standard EPUB (an abbreviation for electronic publication) is a standard for digital publications and documents. It was first published in 2007 and is a format tailor-made for reading text over electronic devices. The founder and keeper of this standard is International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Latest issued specifications for the standard is EPUB 3. The EPUB format has been adopted very quickly because of its ease to use and portability on multiple devices. It is mainly designed for reflowable content, i.e the text display is optimized for the particular display device being used.

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