100 Weblications for Organizing your Ideas

von Maik Preßler am 09.02.2009

At Online College Block is a very useful list of weblications and online apps for brainstorming, mind mapping, listing, organizing or just get ridd of too much mess. As there are 100 tipps, here are my 3 favorite ones: delicious: everytime access to my bookmarks for me and my friends digg: worth a look everytime [...]

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Multiple Inboxes in Gmail

von Robert Günther am 06.02.2009

The official Gmail Blog reported a new Labs feature yesterday: multiple inboxes. This awesome feature allows you to display multiple message boxes on your front interface. This comes in very handy when you want to keep an eye on important or urgent emails … or just want to conciously monitor your spam folder. First you’ll [...]

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sync your life: rss

von Thomas Zimmermann am 25.01.2009

I truely hope everybody knows what a rss feed is but after a conversation at work… well here! If you work on different devices, e.g. private, work, phone and like to read your rss feeds on each of them you are maybe facing the same problem as I did. It is totally anoying to read [...]

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I bet you know the great book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey, a great book on productivity and self-improvement. Now you can download the entire audiobook for free: What are the habits all successful people share? In this audio presentation, Stephen R. Covey answers that question and teaches you [...]

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Learn how to speak to strangers.

von Robert Günther am 15.01.2009

Part of job being is a Sales rep is a very uncomfortable thing called hunting. It’s so unpleasent for me because it means picking up the phone, dialing a number and talking to a complete stranger. When I started in Sales this seemed to me completely undoable, I was in deep fear of rejection, of [...]

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Improve your eMail management with Outlook using PIFEM

von Robert Günther am 15.01.2009

Almost a year ago I stumbled upon the guides of three Microsoft employees, Angus Logan, Johann Kruse & Ian Palangio, which described how these three handled the massive amount of email which filled their inboxes every day. They took the best practices of known email management approaches (e.g. the 4 D’s, GTD etc.) and combined [...]

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Hallucinating without drugs

von Robert Günther am 13.01.2009

Not really a “self-improvement” topic, but I guess we could file it under “motivation”. The Boston Glove explains how to create hallucinations with simple items found at home, as a radio and a pingpong ball. Check the entire article.

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GMail to-do list

von Thomas Zimmermann am 09.12.2008

As Robert is using the Remeber The Milk Plugin for his to-do list, GMaill now offers its own solution. The options are quiet simple but for me it is all I need like categories, due date and notes. Another cool feature I already know from Apple Mail is converting Mails into tasks. GMail’s to-do list [...]

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10 Tips for More Effective PowerPoint Presentations

von Thomas Zimmermann am 26.11.2008

“Oh no! Not another boring PowerPoint presentation! My eyes, my eyes…!!!” How much does it suck to be in the audience for yet another drawn-out, boring, lifeless slideshow? Worse yet, how much does it such to be the one giving it? The truth is, bad PowerPoint happens to good people, and quite often the person [...]

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