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APRIL 18, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast 3: Prepping to Attend Industry Events Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 2:34 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast Your quick link to the April 2010 AZVAs Podcast is at the bottom of this post. The event takes place in Phoenix, Arizona, April 20 – 23, 2010.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I’ve already been forwarding tasks from my various mail apps ( Postbox on Mac, Mailbox on iPhone, Mail.app on iPad) to my Mail Drop address, and now I’m inviting the most important person in my life to email tasks directly there instead. Will it stick? But it certainly is worth a shot.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Zero is where many folks want their email inbox count to be. Too Many …And Then Some The Pros and Cons of Using a Collaborative Task Manager 1 comments   Get Livefyre FAQ Sign in + Follow Post comment Link Sort: Newest | Oldest Bojan011 5pts 1 Like Luckily I dont get a lot of emails.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Related Posts: On Doing What Really Needs Doing Sometimes You Just Have to Go Home Powering Through The Problem with Not Using Email to Manage Tasks Parallel / Series 1 comments   Get Livefyre FAQ Sign in + Follow Post comment Link Sort: Newest | Oldest Erin F. Photo credit: Samantha Marx (CC BY 2.0)

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Loosely Speaking

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs AZVAs Podcast Episode 1 Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: AZVAs Podcast , Life of the Virtual Assistant AZVAs Podcast launches today! Subscribe to AZVAs podcast by emailing ktcosmos@LooseEnds.net.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

lvda 5pts Ive found my answer here [link] Search UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS 04/02/13: Q College Victoria, BC 05/07/13: Social Media Camp Victoria, BC APP.NET GOOGLE+ VISIT MIKEVARDY.COM TWITTER FACEBOOK. Is the other stuff that I believe are hurting more than helping the idea of lifehacks. Related Posts: Thanks, Lifehacker!

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Productivityist

JANUARY 7, 2013

Ready Retreat Workbook: Email Management - $14.99 The current series of workbooks can be purchased individually for $14.99 each using the links below, or you can buy all 4 workbooks as one package for $39.99. Ready Retreat Workbook: Idea Management - $14.99 Ready Retreat Workbook: Task Management - $14.99

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Productivityist

JULY 25, 2012

email and making a return to OmniFocus for individual-based task management. The road has a way of bringing that to the forefront – as well as a lot of other things. And they all have a sense of “home” to them. This week I’ve already talked about going back to Gmail for Vardy.me

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JULY 25, 2012

Mountain Lion The Search for My New Email App of Choice There’s Always Time for Giving Thanks The One-Handed Writing Experiment: Using Paper by 53 2 comments   Get Livefyre FAQ Sign in + Follow Post comment Link Newest | Oldest personal injury 5pts Wonderful read! Photo credit: California Dept. of Fish and Game (CC BY 2.0)

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JULY 5, 2012

Related Posts: Too Busy A Conservative Change Leaving Lifehack The Problem with Not Using Email to Manage Tasks Gratitude…Revisited 2 comments   Get Livefyre FAQ Sign in + Follow Post comment Link Sort: Newest | Oldest hummingbird604 5pts You are amazing. Photo credit: Piermario (CC BY-ND 2.0)

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FEBRUARY 28, 2013

From 5:30 to 6:30 pm every Thursday in April, folks in the Victoria area will be able to spend an hour with me in workshops discussing time management, idea management, task management, and email management. 2 Finally, I’ll be appearing at Social Media Camp.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Related Posts: The Wrench Sandy The Search for My New Email App of Choice What is a Productivityist?

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FEBRUARY 2, 2013

I set up quick email responses through TextExpander snippets. Search UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS 04/02/13: Q College Victoria, BC 05/07/13: Social Media Camp Victoria, BC APP.NET GOOGLE+ VISIT MIKEVARDY.COM TWITTER FACEBOOK. Because I didn’t just prepare myself for this time away, but I prepared others as well.

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Productivityist

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The Ready Retreat Series digital workbooks focus on four different areas of personal productivity: task management, email management, idea management, and time management. The entire library of workbooks is valued at $20, and I’m stoked to be unveiling them as part of Kickstart the Year.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Each Ready Retreat session devotes time to a specific area that can impact one’s productivity, be it email, task, time, idea, or goal management. When attendees leave a Ready Retreat, they’ll be more than equipped to take on everything that comes at them – they’ll be ready.

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Productivityist

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Subscribe for free by email or RSS. Search UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS 04/02/13: Q College Victoria, BC 05/07/13: Social Media Camp Victoria, BC APP.NET GOOGLE+ VISIT MIKEVARDY.COM TWITTER FACEBOOK. Looking for more ways to foster your inner productivityist? Photo credit: Shawn Campbell (CC BY 2.0) And the results were what I expected: [.]

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Productivityist

JULY 27, 2012

AwayFind I am getting deeper and deeper into my AwayFind usage, and with the death of Sparrow and the fact I check email sparingly throughout the day, adding AwayFind to Launch Center Pro would fill a need. I’ve already asked if this is something being looked at, and apparently it is. I guess I would add WTHR.

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Productivityist

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

I have one less email account to check. Being able to remove contexts and ship projects in progress off to somewhere (or someone) else isn’t just liberating today – it frees you up to be liberated going forward. I no longer have a scroll bar when I’m looking at my task and project list. I have far less people to concern myself with.

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AUGUST 23, 2012

Email responses aren’t going to be as timely as we work through the healing process of fixing our home and coping with my hand injury. Search UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS 04/02/13: Q College Victoria, BC 05/07/13: Social Media Camp Victoria, BC APP.NET GOOGLE+ VISIT MIKEVARDY.COM TWITTER FACEBOOK. Now there is no debating that I [.]

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Productivityist

OCTOBER 17, 2012

And I used AwayFind far more than ever before to make sure that only emails that needed to reach me immediately did just that. I created a very small window using the Do Not Disturb feature on my iPhone so that I controlled the elements. I didn’t distance myself from online consumption. This one was tricky.

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JULY 2, 2012

Your slow brain would prefer that you check email on a schedule. If you take your time. If you slow down. Your slow brain is not getting enough stimuli for growth in this fast expectation world. It would be better served if you took some time to think about the responses you wished to craft before you sent them.

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Productivityist

JULY 31, 2012

30/30 allows me to be very flexible with the time I allow for tasks, meaning I can spend one hour on Lifehack editing and 20 minutes on email if I choose, rather than following the structure that The Pomodoro Technique mandates. colleague at Lifehack, Mr. I began to use a journal to track my hours of deliberate practice after [.]

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JULY 30, 2012

Photo credit: Song and Solace Related Posts: Protected: The Productivityist Workbook The Problem with Not Using Email to Manage Tasks The Way of The Productivityist: A Manifesto Time Chunking The Latest 0 comments   Get Livefyre FAQ Sign in + Follow Post comment Link Newest | Oldest Trackbacks Page not found says: 08/16/2012 at 2:13 pm [.]

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JULY 24, 2012

jakeg 5pts I dont know, first you return to google, and now you return to omnifocus. :) Id say youre something of a fiddler, and thats an amazing waste of time. Search UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENTS 04/02/13: Q College Victoria, BC 05/07/13: Social Media Camp Victoria, BC APP.NET GOOGLE+ VISIT MIKEVARDY.COM TWITTER FACEBOOK.

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The Marq

APRIL 15, 2010

Instead, I read the following on their FAQ. If you're still interested in receiving a free copy of Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh, please email me your mailing address. You'll find my email on the blog in the left navigation pane. It wouldn't justify the product, but it would make me slightly less irate.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Google Notebook Our friends at Google have developed this application to assist you in collecting notes and information from the Internet. Google Notebooks can be accessed from any computer as well as from mobile phones and it can also be shared between friends. Use it when shopping online or planning a trip.

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Productivityist

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

I’ve used all of these methods at one time or another when the events of an email gone wrong or some other item of note has me off my game. Still, it was frustrating. So I tried other ways to get out that state of “stuckness” instead.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Related Posts: Decluttering iStuff: iOS Twitter Apps Enter Instapaper 4.0

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AUGUST 14, 2012

The juice just hasn’t been there (even though I gave myself some great content fodder by taking on a search for a new email app ). Trackbacks The Search for My New Email App of Choice says: 08/14/2012 at 8:10 pm [.] Talk about taking some steps back…and not the right kind of steps. Perhaps it’s a case of burnout. Real humility here. [.]

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Loosely Speaking

MARCH 5, 2009

Home VA Training VA FAQ Podcast Featured Events for Bloggers & VAs Dissecting a WordPress Blog Crash Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 10:06 pm // By: ktcosmos // Category: Blogging This is a really long, detailed post for anyone who may ever have to sort through the labyrinth of possibilities in the aftermath of a blog crash.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

A project is not about checking your emails each day. Not to mention overhead like cleaning up emails, invoicing, etc. @PM The (Mis)Adventures of Mike: Mapping out business processes Reply Gillian - Google SEO December 13, 2009 at 7:46 am Thanks Elizabeth – I’ve enjoyed these posts. Chris – excellent point.

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That’s not to mention how difficult communication can be if you use email. Before you know it, you’ll have 15 email threads to keep up with, as well as loads of time-tracking spreadsheets for each team member. Google Drive. Question & answer center (FAQs). Microsoft Office 365. Many others.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 13, 2010

I’ve happily signed up for all kinds of email lists. I recently had a discussion via email with someone regarding the CAN-Spam Act (US) and Anti-Spam Act (Australia). In the US it’s legal to sign someone up to your email list without asking their permission. They could have asked. I have a crazy-busy RSS feed.

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Eco-Office Gals

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Google’s Chrome browser and Chromium-based browsers are tackling videos that automatically play on websites (autoplay ads) to save users from using too much data, slowing down their connection, slowing down their devices, and being annoyed in general. There are a few measures to slow down internet use to a sensible level.

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The platform uses a centralized dashboard that acts as a hub for team communications — eliminating the need for cumbersome back-and-forth emails. FAQ section. Besides that, Asana users have to attach documents via third-party apps like Google Docs or Google Drive, as it has no built-in document sharing/creation system.

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APRIL 1, 2010

You could try cold-calling (or cold-emailing), knocking on doors or praying to the freelancing fairies for some work, but there are some better techniques you can use that will be sure to get you clients in a hurry. Just send an email, comment on someone else’s blog, make a cold call, ask someone to recommend you.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 8, 2010

That means possibly posting something to your blog, sending out a press release, tweeting a public notice or emailing clients. Twitter,Facebook, your project manager, your to-do list app, Google Analytics, your bookkeeping software, or your email accounts? Then email (a client) and ask him to help you sell my sites.&#

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