In a new Pew Research Center survey, American workers have some mixed feelings about how social media affects their workplace productivity. Fifty-six percent of workers who use social media for work-related purposes said it distracts them from other work they need to...
(For the introduction to this interview, click here. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here. For Part 3, click here.) Click to Listen (4 1/2 minutes) MT: This is Maura Thomas from RegainYourTime.com. Thanks for coming back to hear part four of my interview...
(For the introduction to this interview, click here. For Part 1, click here. For Part 2, click here.)Click to Listen (4 minutes) MT: This is Maura Thomas from RegainYourTime.com. Welcome to the third part of my interview with Dr. John Dovidio, psychology professor...
How do you keep up with social media? How do you find the time? I get asked some version of these questions every day, and in fact I deliver trainings on the topic. The tools you choose to use have a huge impact on how well you can keep up with the flood of...
In some ways, we are more connected than ever: Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube...these tools give us unprecedented opportunity to connect with, and attract the attention of, people who in the past seemed much farther removed: celebrities, politicians,...
Note: This article was originally posted on April 20th, 2009. Ok, look...I am not a social media fanatic. I never had a MySpace page, I only have a passing interest in Facebook, and the first time I tried Twitter over a year ago, I hated it and promptly disengaged....
I saw this in my Tweet stream this morning: and I had way more than 140 characters to say about it, so I was inspired to write a blog post about it today. Thanks @alexismadrigal, I hope this helps! First, I suggest very selective and short-term time-blocking. YOU are...
Yesterday I wrote about making progress toward your goals as it relates to both happiness and productivity. Today I want to share with you one other interesting result from the Real Simple magazine happiness survey. They reported it as “3 things that the happiest...
Productivity is such a big subject and there is a lot to learn, with more every day. One of the things I am working on personally, and answering a lot of questions about, is how to incorporate social media into my life. One of the biggest fears I hear, about Twitter...
Some friends asked me on Twitter to elaborate on some Mac shortcuts. I'm using QuickSilver and Fluid to access things quickly on my Mac. QuickSilver comes in really handy to quickly "do things with things." What the heck does that mean? Well, first of all it works as...
