The Art of Speaking

von Maik Preßler am 12.02.2008

Just found a useful summary of Patrick Henry Winston’s lecture on “The Art of Speaking”. Read the facts in a nutshell in the Study Hacks’ post. A few very simple but nevertheless very promising hints on speaking in general. Find the video here.

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Create a new Outlook data file.

von Robert Günther am 29.01.2008

Many of us are using Outlook 2007 at work for email communication and calendar management. In most cases your Outlook is connected to a MS Exchange server within the IT department of your company. This server handels all incoming and outgoing communication and redirects it to you. Quite often it also stores your email data [...]

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emendatio.org

von Robert Günther am 24.01.2008

We’ve moved to a top level domain as this project is growing more and more. From now on we can be found at http://www.emendatio.org ! Happy blogging :) PS: If you’re interesting in contributing or have an interesting topic you’d like to talk about, contact us and you’ll get the chance to post your story [...]

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Monitor your email behavior with Xobni.

von Robert Günther am 19.01.2008

Have you heard, read (here or here) of or even installed the new Xobni plugin for MS Office? If not better hurry and do so because Xobni brings some nice features Outlook itself is missing. It installs as a fifth column (depending on your interface layout) and instantly starts scanning your mailbox. It took 25 [...]

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How to Organize My Documents and Private Folders

von Maik Preßler am 15.01.2008

A question i’ve been dealing with many times is how to organize my files in an uncomplicated but also easy-to-work-with way. On Donationcoder there’s a discussion about the My Documents quest, read the entry here. Lifehacker has also some interesting thougts on organizing the very own files, worth to have a look. The most popular [...]

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How to become an Email Ninja.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

I wanted to write on this topic for quite a while now, mainly because I love the term Email Ninja. If you, like me, work in a huge company and in a position with a lot communication coming in and going out you may know the problem of an overwhelming inbox. Leo Babauta, author of [...]

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Quicky: 11 ways to improve memory.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Todd Goldfarb from the wecanchange.com blog gives us eleven ways on how to improve our memory. I’ll list them below, follow the link to read the detailled explainations. Eat Brain “Superfoods”. Stretch. Teach Others. Take a Break. Listen to Music. Try Ginkgo Biloba. Use Acronyms and Other Mnemonic Devices. Cross-pollinate Your Interests. Sleep Well. Collaborate. [...]

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How to overcome discouragement.

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Recently I changed my job due to a promotion now facing a lot of new tasks and project While some of them are a welcome challenge some others grow fear in me. Not fear on their own but fear to fail. In Scoutt Youngs blog I found nine ideas on how to overcome this growing [...]

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Read more fiction!

von Robert Günther am 12.01.2008

Scott Young wrote a phantastic (no pun intended) blog post on the question whether you should read more fiction. As I am a huge fiction literature fan myself, mostly phantasy, I can only agree to all of his points. For me fictional books increase my thinking and take me away from problems I face in [...]

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