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Business Productivity With Twitter: Follow In Your Niche

Business Productivity With Twitter: Follow In Your Niche

@TwitterUser Follow in your niche: get in – get it – get out & grow your following/business at the same time #efficiency business #productivity *jumps with joy* So you’re a Twitter dabbler and want to build your following. Most of our clients at this point, choose to follow all and sundry in the hope that [...]

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Personal Productivity With Twitter: Easier Reading With Lists

Twitter along with other social media outlets is often marked as a distraction and reason for procrastination which results in decreased personal productivity, but if used correctly, it can in fact do the opposite for personal productivity. Here in Get Organised we would class it as a powerful online productivity tool. Read on to find [...]

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Business Productivity: When and How to Clear Old Electronic Files

Working with people to boost business productivity puts me in the privileged position of up close and personal access to their systems. And while  clients may practice either simple, complex or chaotic systems, everyone, and I mean every-single-one, has old, dated and superfluous (isn’t that a gorgeous word) files clogging up hard drives, servers and sanity. [...]

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Business Productivity: The Cost Of Pushing ‘Print’:

Business productivity is only one reason not to press the print button! I remember marvelling at the wonders of my Palm Pilot PDA. Feeling a sense of pride as I slid the stylus out of its little ‘pocket’ to jot down a quick note in front of an admiring fan, ahem, I mean, client. Bubble [...]

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Your Computer Desktop: Not A Storage Place

My desktop hasn’t always looked this tidy but that was back in the day before my computer crashed and I lost all my documents because they weren’t saved into one of the drives on my computer. Now, the only files and folders that you will find on my desktop are documents that I am working [...]

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Top Ten Online Document Management Apps

To improve my time management and move closer to a place of paperless productivity, I’ve been scrolling through the mine field of document apps on the lookout for some pretty darn awesome ones.  And while I’m still wiggling into a perfect fit, shifting from PC to Mac (and sometimes slipping right back into old habits [...]

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Top Ten Productivity Apps for the iPhone

Wondering how to use your iPhone to boost your business productivity? Well you’ve come to the right place. Drum roll please … Ladies and Gentlemen, announcing a top 10 iPhone productivity Apps list. What they are good for and why. Sorted by price and nothing else: Evernote (Evernote. Free):  An all-time favourite of mine since [...]

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Managing the Electronic Paper Deluge

Managing the Electronic Paper Deluge

Paper, the single biggest contributor to clutter in businesses, is a by-product of ineffective time management. A bold statement indeed, but let me climb down from my soapbox for a moment (I’m vertically challenged!) and explain what I’m on about. Our clients are always complaining that they don’t have enough time. I mean, who wouldn’t [...]

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