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Productivity Software

This post title should be recited to the tune of “lions, tigers, and bears, oh my;” that is if you’re old enough to remember The Wizard of Oz, or young (at heart) enough to have seen it as a rerun. It’s rhythmic and its cyclical and it never stops.
Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn are potential [...]

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Oh dear. How would you like to be the sender whose name I’ve blocked out here? Charged, apparently, with emailing a press release to bloggers, and struggling with a technical problem, he ends up creating this blight on my inbox (and probably doesn’t even know he’s done it):

I count 11 repetitions, the same message, the same [...]

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You know the phrase:
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Right? You hear it a lot.
But what if, in fact, invention is the mother of necessity. Once the technology exists,  we then complicate things, demand more, and use up the productivity gain in raising the quality bar.
Take budgets, for example. I realize it’s hard for most people [...]

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Almost 20 Years ago I developed a software product called Forecaster. You start with an empty chart. Then you assign values to vertical and horizontal. Then you draw a line with your mouse, and Forecaster generates the numbers that correspond to the line.

It was built as something you could use in a business plan. [...]

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Watch your Back

by Tim Berry on March 19, 2009

in Productivity Software, Web/Tech

I just read The Corporate Survivor’s Guide to Email on the Huffington Post. Thank God, at least this isn’t true in my world. I don’t think. I mean … is it? Is that what you meant? Here’s how this Nicholas Weinstock post starts.
Now More than Ever
Thank you!
Translation:  F**k you.  Generally found at the end [...]

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Time to Unlock Shared Email

by Tim Berry on September 26, 2008

in Productivity Software

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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