Apple’s iWork ‘08 a MS Office Replacement?
August 23rd, 2007
No. iWork is not a replacement for MS Office…for most people who use Office. That being professionals and really anyone who regularly trades documents back and forth between other users of Office (read: Windows Users), which is 90% of the computer-using world.
BUT, for some of us – for the select few – iWork will be all we need and more.
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Social Networking Tips
August 20th, 2007
You can’t deny that online social networking is the rage right now. In fact, it’s been the rage for so long, it’s probably peaked. Every day, I feel like I read another post about the need for a shared data pool or at least an aggregate site that can keep all of the various social networking sites’ information in one neat and tidy place. Go ahead and have a MySpace, Facebook, Xanga, and LinkedIn. The suggestions are that they all share the same data from a database that you manage, or they all provide API’s to third party pepes so that they can make software that lets you manage them all in one place. Sounds great, right?
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please, carry a notebook
August 15th, 2007
If I’ve said it once, a lot of other people have said it a thousand times. If you want to work or even have a hobby in the creative world, you have to…let me repeat…HAVE to carry a notebook.
This has been written about time and time again online as well as in various books. In fact, a google blog search of “always carry a notebook” returned more than 20 results of recent posts on the topic. The reason why? Creativity is difficult, often impossible, to schedule.
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workplace 2.0 (employee, product, customer)
July 19th, 2007
So, to be fair, I’ve never attended business school. 
To take my full disclosure of how unqualified I am to be yammering on about business theory further, I’ve only owned a couple of small businesses and I’ve never been an upper or middle manager of anything at a larger organization. Even so, I want to throw my little theory of business out to the world to be trampled, chewed up, and spit out. Or maybe you should trample it last since you’re going to be chewing on it…
Summing it up is easy: Employee, Product, Customer. (or Employee, Service, Client)
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workplace culture change
July 18th, 2007
Yay! I finally pulled my head out of you-know-where and discovered that other people are coming to the same conclusion that I have: the modern workplace has to change.
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my productivity system
July 7th, 2007
Ahh, the ever uphill battle of personal productivity. Selecting from the bevy of time management or productivity systems out there alone will suck the life out of your productive time without missing a beat. Everyone’s got an opinion about what works and what doesn’t and everyone’s pretty gung-ho about why. So should dan throw his proverbial hat into the mix? Yes. Should he throw his actual hat into the mix? I’m not exactly sure how I would go about doing that…
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what should you tolerate at work?
May 15th, 2007
Several years ago when I had a “real” job, I wrote a journal entry about how much and what I was willing to tolerate in a given position before quitting. I’ve long felt that our culture promotes staying at your job despite dissatisfaction, poor pay, lack of respect, or any number of perfectly horrible motivators that are abundant in today’s workforce. This is based on some loyalty or work ethic that has lost any value in my opinion.
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notes about self-improvement…
May 8th, 2007
NOTE: This post is an old post from MySpace copy/pasted into this one to add content. It is raw and unedited for content or formatting. Love it.
If you know me personally, you know that this topic has been important to me lately. Growth as a person is something I try to direct some time and energy to every year; traditionally during the lenten season. Even though I’m not a Catholic. Just makes sense to me because so many other people are doing the same thing around that time. Anyway, I missed it this year because I was sick, so I’m doing it now.
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more in my work series (part…3?)
May 8th, 2007
NOTE: This post is an old post from MySpace copy/pasted into this one to add content. It is raw and unedited for content or formatting. Love it.
So I’m too lazy to look back and see what I had called these posts before, but essentially, they are my totally unqualified opinions about how work culture needs to change. Maybe I’ll look later and change the title of this post to match the others.
Probably not.
I read an article over the course of a few days at the gym in Business Week. (personal note…those sit down bikes are AWESOME for readers). The article is about Best Buy and their implementation of a clockless workplace. They call it ROWE, which is a cutesy acronym for “Results Only Work Environment”. If you want some context, you can read the article here, and find out more about ROWE here.
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apple = target = genius
May 8th, 2007
NOTE: This post is an old post from MySpace copy/pasted into this one to add content. It is raw and unedited for content or formatting. Love it.
So we just got back from a rousing trip to the Cherry Creek Mall in Denver and while there, we visited the Apple Store. This isn’t my first foray into the mother ship, as I’ve also been to the Apple Store in Chi Town. But it did remind me of some retail and POS Marketing theory of which I’ve recently become aware.
Point of Sale. Not the other POS.
Anyway, here’s the deal. I like to be in the Apple stores. Yes, yes, part of it is due to the fact that Steve Jobs has used mind-altering rays on me and I’m brainwashed into believing that Macs are the messiah’s of the personal computer world. However, there’s more to it than that. Environment, people.
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