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Yes, I’ve been issued, although it may be only temporary, a Blackberry so I can be reached wherever I am. (Truthfully I’ve been issued one because if I have to support them, it’d help if I was familiar with using one!) Anyway. the first lesson I learned, don’t keep it too close to my laptop…
From Jevon’s blog today: “I linked to http://www.mikemcbride.com instead of http://www.silver-mosquito-943229.hostingersite.com yesterday. . . Imagine my suprise when I followed the original link today. Hijacking.” For the record, I am not affiliated with mikemcbride.com in any way, shape or form! I do not get involved in such extreme religious/political arguments. I’m just a geek with…
This seems like a rather insecure way to remotely control your PC. Afterall, anyone can send emails to your gmail account with “keywords”. Unless you can use long, randomly-generated, sets of characters. Even then, if you really have a need to control your PC remotely, learn to use a VNC program. Tags: GmailRemoteCommand Follow these…
Every poor manager I’ve ever dealt with has been a poor communicator. Almost every shortcoming or problem I’ve seen people have with a manager or coworker could be filed under a problem with communication. It’s THE thing in the workplace. Ideas, expectations, priorities, and everything else in the workplace come down to the ability to communicate. If you cannot communicate clearly, you are lost, and the people who work for you or lost.
Yet how many organizations promote the top performer or their most senior individual contributor without ever considering whether they are good communicators? And how many prioritize teaching them how to communicate as managers?
SO I was doing my normal morning review of feeds to see what’s going on in the blogosphere when I saw a mention of a new utility on Slipstick called Outlook Central. According to it’s description: Use Outlook Central to share calendars, contacts, journals, notes, tasks and email folders with other Outlook users without the…