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II’ve joined Hubpages and created one hub yesterday, you cacn check it out How To Choose Project Management Software, I am planning  on creating a big network of hubpages (doing a little experiment).

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Recent Blog Posts I Enjoyed Reading

Larry Dignan writes about The 10 biggest mistakes IT managers make, and i believe that we could find a lot and a lot more :)

SAP and Sybase announced a partnership recently SAP, Sybase partner to deliver apps for any device, everyone wants a piece of the mobile pie, SAP is not exception, we’ll have to see what will roll out of this

PcMag has a great article on How to Delete Accounts from Any Website

Oracle announced that is now selling SaaS sourcing products Oracle jumps into the SaaS market with SaaS Sourcing

Bob Weinstein writes about 2008 outsourcing numbers and is wondering how they will shift due to crisis

And Lee Odden has some more great tips on Twitter: 11 Ways to Find Brands & Companies on Twitter

 

 

 

 

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Windows Mobile Applications You Must Have

Here is a little something for all the windows mobile lovers:

Windows Mobile

Windows Mobile

Other useful windows mobile resources:

I am pretty sure, that there much more cool and useful windows mobile apps and resources, if you know any be sure to leave your comment!

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Using Google Docs For Project Management

I know that most of the small businesses are still doing all the stuff online and they don’t even realize how much more they could do if they would just stop and think for a minute how simple and free tools could literally speaking boost there productivity. I don’t want to tell about some project management software (and why, oh why people think that project management software is hard to learn? there is a learning curve for everything), instead lets take a look at Google Docs. For those who are already using some PM or collaboration tool to organize yourself and your team you can skip this article, this for beginners.
Google Docs
What do you need? All You need is a Google account(sign up for google mail called Gmail if you haven’t done that already). Now of course it would be a shame if we would leave Google Calendar outside the boat. So now we have everything we need to start. Actually a more correct expression i guess would be getting organized and collaborative then project management with G Docs, because you won’t find features like time tracking, automatic chart and reports, project dashboards, notifications, reminders etc.

The most powerful feature of Google Docs is that it allows multiple users to edit the same documents in real time, so for collaborative purposes it really useful: change documents, review, brainstorm. Of course this fits only for small teams, because you don’t have the option to roll back changes like for example in wiki. Check my post about why like wikis as well if you are interested.

Use Google Docs to update on your project progress each week(source):

  • We create a separate document for each member of the team.
  • Each document is shared with all other members.
  • At the top of each document, we enter the week-ending date, along with the categories Achieved, Not Achieved, and Priorities.
  • We updated our progress in these three categories throughout the week.
  • At the end of the week, we each just add a horizontal line (page separator) to the top of the document and start over, again entering the week-ending date, and the three categories.
  • It would be a good idea creating and sharing templates, this will speed up document management and collaboration and it will allow to avoid mistakes. Of course wiki would be much better for this task, but still it is a good idea just to have some templates for the most common task and documents that you are using. Of course don’t forget to check already available templates (the collection is really great, you can find project templates, gantt charts, goals, to-do lists etc.). You can read more about tracking projects with Google Spreadsheets templates here.

    One more big feature is that you have an online office suite for free, and don’t even need a desktop application if you have high speed internet. Google Docs and Calendar might not be enough for a full features project management, but it is definitely a good free solution for small teams. There are loads of free tools that you can use for your small business or yourself, it is all about the attitude, I like the saying “Just Do It” - so simple and yet so powerful, it can actually be used as a project management technique, but ,well, that’s a whole another story :)) Stay tuned

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    Importance vs Urgency Matrix

    Here is one of the most popular urgency/importance matrix models, or the so called “Eisenhower Matrix”:

    Urgent Not Urgent
    I II
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    • Dealing with crisis
    • Deadlines
    • Urgent tasks
    • Phone calls, that can’t be delayed
    • New projects planning
    • Achievments and results
    • Coordinating and communicating
    • Alternative projects and opportunities
    • Training
    III IV
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    • Ordinary phone calls
    • General meetings
    • Other peoples messes
    • Interruptions, junk mail
    • Chatting with coworkers
    • Some mail, phone calls
    • Routine work
    • Relaxation

    People that stream to be successful usually avoid doing things from third and fourth quadrants
    First quadrant – if you live according to these rules, it can result in a stress and personal crisis. It’s even worse because in the long run you can’t live without it and you become what people call workaholic J So if at the end of the day you don’t want to stop working, you should really think twice about the way you live, the way you manage your time.
    Second quadrantyou control the situation. You are the leader, you influence decisions, work methods, priorities. There is enough time for your relationships with coworkers, plan and prevent crisis.
    Third quadrant short term focus. Usually people that fall into this quadrant think that there work is extremely important and urgent, when in real life it is not, they just waste a lot of time for long phone calls, emails etc.
    Fourth quadrant - what we can call time wasting. You are not getting paid to play online games or read news for a couple hours a day.
    So you manage the time? or the time manages you? It’s all up to us :)

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    How To Manage A Failure?

    Every leader should know how to manage a failure:

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    Problems With Blogvis.com Service

    Hello to everyone!

    I am sorry, but due to the udate to http://www.blogvis.com service they deleted my blog. I emailed them back with the request to restore it, it will take some time. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

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    Project Management Links (December 3)

    I’ve been for a small vacation, so I thought i’ll post a small list of links of what happened interesting during that time:

    • Vertabase project management software launches v 4.5, source
    • Wikis that work: Four IT departments get it right, source
    • Lessons learned for project management, source
    • Extreme Toyota’s Lesson for American Auto
    • Crisis Management in Action, source
    • Measuring Productivity Metrics With Programmer, source
    • New Deloitte Aerospace & Defense Study finds Root Causes for Program Cost Overruns in USA, source
    • Six Sigma: Myths and Realities, source

     

    So much for today, keep tuned!

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    Knowledge Management Software

    Today while doing a keyword research for project management software, decided to go into a new area - knowledge management. I am working a lot with internet marketing and SEO, so I got used to check the competition in one area or another by the amounts and prices of advertising in that particular area. And i was actually surprised that competition is so low keywords like knowledge management tools, knowledge management software, sharing knowledge, knowledge sharing software, knowledge sharing tool. Actually the prices are as low as 0.05$/click. I truly believe this a great opportunity to boost advertising efforts for software that has knowledge management elements like Comindwork, or Centraldesktop. Well anyway I wanted to check what google thinks are the best knowledge management softwares, here is a small list from mu little research:

    • BrainEKP - is pretty much based on visual knowledge sharing and management, pretty much like mind maps, looks interesting.
    • Kneledgebase - knowledge management through articles and forums, I think this just wrong, then how this is better then a simple wiki?
    • Interspire Knowledge Manager - now this really looks more of a knowledge management software, it offer knowledge sharing, integration, workflows, RSS syndication, statistics, imports and much more, this is a piece of software that really is worthwhile to get a look at.
    • and I truly believe that with a little bit of customization any project management software that features wikis and collaboration options can be considered as a knowledge management software as well.

    Do you use any knowledge management software? I personally love wikis :))

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