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5 steps to emptying your e-mail inbox
Dec 27, 2010 | Top Information Overload Posts, Productivity
Reduce the volume of your incoming e-mail with an e-mail “vacation”
Dec 26, 2010 | Productivity
5 essential ingredients for effective e-mail management
Dec 25, 2010 | Productivity
Put the 0 in 2011: 7 days to Inbox Zero
Dec 24, 2010 | Productivity
Review: ThinkGeek TK-421 Bluetooth Keyboard for iPhone
Dec 23, 2010 | Productivity
In my gift roundup for Harvard Business Review last week, I wrote that the secret to buying gadget gifts for early adopters is "to surprise us with something so new that it hasn't yet arrived at Best Buy". The item I suggested was a keyboard case for iPhone or iPad,...
A prescription for healthy social media use from the American Medical Association
Dec 20, 2010 | Career
The American Medical Association has come out with guidelines for how physicians should handle social media, as reported by the association's own news site. These guidelines shed light on the way that social media challenges existing models of medical care and the...
Santa goes to Best Buy
Dec 16, 2010 | The Harvard Business Review
Early adopters are the hardest folks to shop for. As an early adopter married to yet another early adopter, we struggle to find good gifts, since we own every gadget we need, and many we don't. That's why you've got to surprise us with something so new that it hasn't...
Making sense of the Wikileaks backlash
Dec 14, 2010 | Community
The past week has seen a series of denial-of-service attacks on services like Paypal and Amazon, which have been characterized as a hacker retaliation for how these services have treated Wikileaks. Since I wrote my dissertation on hacktivism -- politically motivated...
The 5 questions to ask about online distraction
Dec 13, 2010 | Self, Top Self Posts
Whether you’re worried about the Internet’s impact on your attention span, or tired of hearing about how life online is driving us to distraction, these 5 questions will help you think more deeply about online distraction.
Social media insights from recent research
Dec 10, 2010 | Community
The more time college students spend online, the worst they do in their first semester....but they end up with better social lives. Facebook activism doesn't detract from offline activism: people who are politically active on Facebook are actually more politically...