Getting Organized in the Google Era – or how to ski to Thailand
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
My last post described 4 main takeaways from Douglas Merrill’s ‘Organizing in the Age of Google’. Here are four more, specifically related to his top tip –> Search. If you only keep in your head what you truly need then what do you do with the rest? “Don’t file information search for it,” are [...]
Tags: cloud, douglas merrill, email, google, mozy, organization in the age of google, search, things, virtual assistant
6 easy, free planning tools to help you get the year you want part 2
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development
In my last post I wrote an article about looking back over our shoulder, to the year that was, and looking forward to the year that is yet to be. Here are a bunch of resources to help you with your 2011 planning: From Dyana Valentine – what’s your business end tradition. Chris Guillebeau’s how [...]
Tags: a perfect mess, annual review, chris guillebeau, david allen, dyana valentine, elance.com, getting things done, social media, virtual assistant
Learning means converting & translating
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under communication, training & development, Travel
I was recently in Turkey doing program evaluation training for the United Nations, which meant carrying a variety of ubiquitous plug adapters. I laughed at the above combination of plugs – all feeding into one that would fit the hotel outlet, allowing computer and IPhone to charge. The need to convert, change or adapt in [...]
Tags: delicious, Get Friday, hootsuite, social bookmarking, technology, turkey, united nations, virtual assistant, youtube
Make time to fall, fail and flounder
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Business & organizational development, change management & wellness, Human resources
Do you have something that you want to delegate but are holding back because it’s going to be tough? Need to hire but putting it off because orientation will take too long? I recently hired a VA (Virtual Assistant). I’d been wanting to do this for a long time but had held back because I [...]
Tags: delegate, delegating, Get Friday, hiring, planning, VA, virtual assistant