calendar, gtd, informationoverload, iphone, mac, mail, socialnetworks, tools
In Bidness, Gadgets, Media, PopCult on December 6, 2009
If I’ve had a little extra bliss in recent weeks, it’s because I finally feel like I’ve mastered control of the ridiculous amounts of information I choose to and not to ingest on a daily basis. I Tweeted about it a while back and instantly got numerous responses from folks wanting to know the secret. I said:
16 yr working, 15 yr InterWebs/email, 7 yr smartphone, 5 yr RSS, 3 yr social networks – finally have info mgmt system that works for me.
First, some context. On average, I:
- Read and react to more than a thousand emails a week
- Send more than 300 emails a week
- Subscribe to a couple hundred RSS feeds, for around 400 posts per day
- Follow 700 Twitter users
- Manage four Twitter accounts
- Keep up with 350 Facebook friends
- Manage a Facebook page
- Have 15 meetings a week that have to be coordinated with other people
- Take 20 phone calls per week
- Have about a dozen topics that I feel like I have to be expert on at all times
- And run a large local website
And somehow, I finally feel like I have control of it all. I trust my system and nothing seems to slip through the cracks.
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apple, at&t, business, customerservice, FAIL, getaclue, insincerity, iphone
In Bidness, Gadgets on June 29, 2009
Yeah, you may have a great big battle station, but if you waste the opportunity to shore it up, a rebeliion's gonna come. (Image from The Daily Yeah.)
I’m going to resist the temptation to turn this post into a therapy session over the myriad problems I’ve had with AT&T over the past month. Specific situations will crop up organically in the descriptions below, but instead of a chronological chapter-and-verse story, I’m going to focus on the lessons I’ve learned about AT&T and its processes. Read the rest of this entry »
apple, at&t, customerservice, iphone, iphone3GS
In Gadgets on June 20, 2009
Image lifted from The Iphone Blog
Yes, I can probably be classified as an Apple fanboy. But if you know me, you know my allegiance doesn’t come easy. For my purposes, Apple produces the best computer and phone technology available. But there are lots of companies that produce good technology — It is my human interactions with Apple that make me a loyalist. My experience in buying the new 3G S Iphone is one of, if not the most memorable I’ve had: Read the rest of this entry »
