• 5 ways to screw up your talk
  Dr. Mike Kaspari of Getting Things Done in Academia offers this humorous take on giving presentations — specifically, the things we do to screw them up, like going on and on and on and on… Applies not only to academic presentations, but to ANY kind.
  Tags: presentation communication
• 17 Tips to Be Productive with Instant Messaging
  Leo Baubuta at Web Worker Daily says the best way to be productive with Im is not to use IM. He has a point. But if you find you must use it, he offers 17 pieces of advice to make the most of chatting online.
  Tags: communication email productivity tips im
• Attention Management: 7 Tips to Use Your Attention Wisely
  Donald Latumahina at Life Optimizer suggests treating your attention like a resource and offers a set of tips on how to maximize, manage, and invest it wisely.
  Tags: focus attention productivity
• How does everything get tied up in knots?!
  How are people a lot like string? What does knot science have to tell us about our lives’ complications? Space Daisy has the answers!
  Tags: knots complication life
• The Three Key Rules For Any Organizing System
  OrganizeIT says that every system will succeed or fail based on how easy it is to input information, retrieve and use information, an delete it when it’s no longer needed.
  Tags: organization productivity system
• Tuesday’s Tip: Effective Backups
  A basic plan for making and keeping computer backups from Productivity501. Focuses on general principles rather than recommending specific tools.
  Tags: storage Backup tips productivity
• How to Learn From Mistakes
  It’s no empty truism to say we learn most from the mistakes we make, but sometimes it’s hard to see how. Tejvan Pettinger at PickTheBrain guides you through the process of making the most of mistakes.
  Tags: mistakes self-improvement advice
• Force Yourself To Save! 15 Painless Ways To Pay Yourself First
  The Digerati Life offers up a list of tips about building your savings. While some of the advice you’ve heard before — “pay yourself first” — TDL explains how to move from cliche to action.
  Tags: finance money advice saving
• A Roadmap to Spectacular GTD Failure
  Cranking Widgets explains in some detail how NOT to do GTD. Not being specific about your tasks and projects, not carrying some means to record your thoughts as they occur to you, not keeping yourself organized — lead to worry and leaving things undone.
  Tags: gtd organization advice
• Free Online Storage Service Reaches Out to Other Free Apps
  New box.net sevice OpenBox integrates box.net’s online storage with online productivity apps like ThinkFree, Zoho, Picnik, EchoSign, and others. And developers are invited to use the API to develop future apps.
  Tags: online apps storage webapp
• 4 ways to use Wikipedia (hint: never cite it)
  Wikipedia is a great resource for academic work, though not as a source in a paper. GearFire Student Productivity spells out what you CAN use it for: background information, links to solid sources, and ideas about serching for more information.
  Tags: wikipedia student research writing papers
• Eight Tips From An Ultra-Frugal Parent
  WIth the price of EVERYTHING going up all over, The Simple Dollar offers a handful of tips on holding down your family’s spendng. Not every tip will work for every family, but they’re bound to get you thinking about ways to save in your household.
  Tags: parenting money frugality tips

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