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AFTER e-mail: 5 steps to moving task management out of your inbox
Jan 6, 2011 | Productivity
How the other half goes offline
Jan 5, 2011 | Self
Between the Christmas break and the season of New Year's resolutions, I was braced for a flurry of blog posts about the merits of unplugging -- a phenomenon I was already tired of by the end of last summer, as I wrote about for HBR. So imagine my delight when I read...
Today in HBR: 6 social media choices you have to make in 2011
Jan 4, 2011 | The Harvard Business Review
What am I choosing to do on the Web? That's one of the key choices you'll need to make this year, as we set the course for how social media will integrate into our lives and reshape the world. In my blog post today for HBR, Social Media in 2011: Six Choices You Need...
5 life lessons you can learn from emptying your inbox
Dec 31, 2010 | Self, Top Self Posts, Top Information Overload Posts, Top Email Posts
You’ve probably got a handful of e-mails that are still in your inbox because you are, on some level, avoiding them. These e-mails, more than anything else, illuminate your core personal or professional blocks. Forcing yourself through them — the way you have to in order to empty your inbox — is not just a path to e-mail efficiency, but a very meaningful exercise in character-building. Here are some of the lessons that may lie waiting in your inbox.
4 steps to unsubscribing from unwanted e-mail
Dec 30, 2010 | Productivity
How to create Gmail labels that help empty your e-mail inbox
Dec 30, 2010 | Productivity
Day 6: Stop using your e-mail inbox as a post-it
Dec 30, 2010 | Productivity
TV for multi-tasking: 10 shows to help process your e-mail
Dec 29, 2010 | Lifestyle
21 Gmail filters that will empty your e-mail inbox
Dec 29, 2010 | Productivity
Empty your inbox with Gmail filters
Dec 28, 2010 | Productivity