social media : digital project management

Tip: Don’t Use MS Word to Compose Blog Posts for Wordpress

If you’re blogging on the Wordpress platform, composing your posts in MS Word, copying and pasting them to the Add New Post window, this carries over encoding that makes your post look funky sometimes when you hit publish. To avoid this, use something like BBEdit, TextEdit (included on Macs), or another notepad type of software.  I know some folks use blog editors like Ecto as well.  This works too. If...

More Gmail Features to Love: Send and Archive

Regular readers know that I’m a huge Gmail fan.  I’ve written about the way I used Things + Gmail to make life a little easier (the comments have some great tips too!), but a while back I requested a feature from Google that would make my heart melt. I discovered this morning that my wish had come true.  Anyone can now log into Gmail, go to Labs and enable the Send and Archive feature that allows...

Label your equipment

When buying or after you receive an iPod or any expensive gift for Christmas, have it engraved or label it somehow.  One piece of contact info will allow someone to (hopefully) contact you to return it. A friend recently lost $1,200 worth of camera equipment.  No one has a way to contact him because he didn’t have it labeled in any way.  When replacing the equipment, he chose to have it engraved. Also,...
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