Time to Unlock Shared Email

By Tim Berry

I had a worrisome email today from one of my favorite people, a colleague in many ways and a very influential blogger, in which she asks: Hi Tim, are there any changes planned to Email Center Pro soon? Such as... Read More »

The Business Email Problem of Unanswered Emails

By Tim Berry

Yesterday I had a not-entirely-comfortable conversation with somebody I very much respect about my email habits. There are emails left unanswered in my email account, and she was suggesting that there shouldn't be. People who write an email to a... Read More »

Disappearing Competitive Advantage. Is This Productivity?

By Tim Berry

Technology and competitive advantage. Sometimes it's like one of those shell games. Does technology make our work better? Does it make it easier. I have a theory. A lot of technology we work with (as in personal computers, etc.) gives... Read More »

Using the Blog Platform for Writing a Book

By Tim Berry

A week or so ago I finished a complete non-fiction book draft using a password-protected blog as the writing platform. I used my TypePad account, but it could have just as easily been in WordPress. I don't know the other... Read More »

Drawing an Audience, The Old-Fashioned Way

By Tim Berry

This was in our local paper, the Eugene Register Guard, "from news service reports:" When Dan Roam wants to make a point in business meetings, he doesn't use Excel or give PowerPoint presentations. He uses paper. In his recently published... Read More »

Making it With the Mac

By Tim Berry

So I posted Back to the Mac here in January when I put a gorgeous new 24" iMac on my main desk top at home, replacing my Windows XP Media machine that got sent upstairs to serve the television (which... Read More »

Borders Software Kiosk Opens

By Tim Berry

I posted about the software retail kiosk experiment at the London Oxford Street Borders store last month. I got word via email today that the first store is up and running. Here's a picture: As I said before, I hope... Read More »

An Old New Channel for Software

By Tim Berry

When I was a market researcher think-tank person, in the early 1980s, I predicted that bookstores would be a natural channel for software. Twenty-some years later, I was wrong and I've been wrong for decades. I hate that. But here's... Read More »