Archive for June, 2007...
Filed under Microsoft Office, computer security, computers, software
By Dmitry Rozenbaum
If you were ever unable to open a Microsoft Word document or Excel spreadsheet protected with a password, you know how frustrating it feels. If you need to access that document right away, the frustration turns into urgent need to recover protected data.
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Filed under Microsoft Office, Outlook, computers, contact management, information management, organizing, software
By Janet Barclay, MVA
Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used software programs for email, but if you’re only using it for email, you’re missing out on a great productivity tool! Here are a few ways you can use Outlook to keep track of your Contacts.
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Filed under Microsoft Office, Outlook, book review, email, task management, time management
By Janet Barclay, MVA
For a long time, I believed Microsoft Outlook(R) to be a powerful yet highly underutilized time management tool, but was frustrated because the courses I took covered only the basics, and none of the books I read went sufficiently in depth to satisfy my desire to use this program to its full capacity. Then I discovered Sally McGhee’s book, Take Back Your Life! which outlines steps for creating a system to help you to maximize productivity and take control of your personal and professional life.
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Filed under calendars, email, office organization, organizing, planners, time management
By Janet Barclay, MVA
If you’ve set a goal, resolution, or intention to be more organized in 2007, congratulations! You obviously recognize that being organized can help you to save time, money, and stress. Unfortunately, getting and staying organized is an ongoing process which, for most people, involves changing your daily habits, so don’t be surprised if it doesn’t happen for you overnight.
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Filed under computers, email, mobile technology, software
By Alexander Rodichev
Are you spending a lot of time away from your computer? Wish you had access to all your email accounts while traveling? Need to have your letters and address book with you, but don’t want to carry a notebook? Reach-a-Mail gives the right answer!
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Filed under Microsoft Office, Outlook, computers, software, task management, to do lists
By Janet Barclay, MVA
Microsoft Outlook is one of the most widely used software programs for email, but if you’re only using it for email, you’re missing out on a great productivity tool! Here are a few ways you can use the Outlook Tasks feature to keep track of your To-Do List.
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Filed under organizing, productivity, software
By Fabio Cassini
Managing your rental property can be quite a headache, especially if you have to do it manually. You just cannot cope with the number of enquiries that will flow into your mailbox and you cannot afford to ignore any of them or you stand to lose a potential customer. Bookitsystem comes to your rescue to help you take care of all the numerous activities involved in managing your rental property.
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Filed under computers, information management, organizing
By Janet Barclay, MVA
When you first went online, you probably learned very quickly that you could bookmark websites that you wanted to return to in the future. If you’re like many users, it probably didn’t take long before your list of Favorites or Bookmarks went all the way down the screen, and although you continue to add to them, you rarely use them, because it’s too hard to find what you are looking for. Rather than deleting them all and starting over, there are steps you can take to organize your Favorites in a way that you can easily locate the information you need at any given time.
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Filed under computers, electronic filing, information management, organizing, productivity
By Dave Paradi
Every day, individuals spend time trying to find information on their computer. With data being created at ever increasing rates, the volume to search through becomes greater and greater. This causes the search times to grow longer and longer. Information workers spend time finding important customer e-mails in the sea of e-mail that they receive, finding key files on shared drives holding thousands of files, finding the right information in long documents and finding relevant information on the World Wide Web. This delay in locating information reduces productivity, delays crucial decisions and increases the chance that work will be done twice because the previous work cannot be located in a timely manner.
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Filed under computers, information management, organizing
By Marie Mushing
Ah, the age of technology, a simple click of the mouse can add your business information to many online directories, search engines and more. We move along the internet, like it should follow us and track all our movements, moods and know when things change, and react accordingly. Sounds like a faithful puppy doesn’t it?
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