I haven’t forgotten I owe you an Arrow-Tip on creating a quote information sheet form with calculated fields in Word - look for it next week.
In the mean time, I had an interesting meeting with a prospect for one of my clients who reinforced my insistance on posting performance metrics. The team is engergized and ready to embrace metrics so I’ve been working on some interesting ways to use SharePoint for inputing and distributing information like on-time delivery rate, days without a lost time accident and percentage of rejected products. Look for an Arrow-tip on creating company dashboards to communicate performance metrics next.
24th Jun 2009 | Comments (0) | Arrow Tips
Parents may be especially interested in a post I recently created for OpMom.com titled Facebook - The Good, Bad, & the Ugly from a Forty Something Auntie’s Perspective.
5th Jun 2009 | Comments (2) | Arrow Tips, Social Media
As many of my early readers know, I resisted the upgrade from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 for a long time (see Arrow-Tips #22 Should You Upgrade to Outlook 2007). Since that March 2008 post, Microsoft has released service packs for both Vista and Office 2007 which is always one of the key things to wait fore before upgrading your Microsoft software. So in February of this year when I purchased a new Dell Latitude I decided to go on and bite the bullet. In this Arrow-Tip I’ll cover some of my observations regarding the transition and would love to hear comments from all of you as well. Read More
21st May 2009 | Comments (0) | Arrow Tips, Calendar, Contacts, Front Page, Inbox, Performance, SharePoint, Tasks
In Arrow-Tip #45 we discussed managing tasks across an organization using the task assigmnet options in Microsoft Outlook and Exchange. In Arrow-Tip #46 we discussed managing these same tasks in SharePoint. This Arrow-Tip will address using a combination of Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint to manage assigned tasks. Read More
19th May 2009 | Comments (1) | Arrow Tips, SharePoint, Tasks
In Arrow-Tip #45 I discussed managing tasks using the Outlook and Exchange task assignment features. In this Arrow-Tip I’m going to discuss how we use SharePoint in combination with Outlook to manage tasks as an organization for one of my clients Gulf Coast Welding Corp. Read More
18th May 2009 | Comments (0) | Arrow Tips, SharePoint, Tasks
I got some great feedback after posting Arrow-Tip #44 Outlook vs Sharepoint: Where to Put What - Part II regarding management of combined tasks from both Outlook and Sharepoint. After playing with the suggested solutions, I’ve learned some great new alternatives for managing tasks both individually or as an organization. Then I got a call from my pal Adam Halpern asking for ideas on how to manage tasks assigned to other people and it occurred to me that I have yet to create an arrow-tip for managing assigned tasks. So, Adam (and anyone else interested in using Outlook to assign and track tasks), read on for some great Outlook task management options. Read More
14th Mar 2009 | Comments (1) | Arrow Tips, Front Page, Tasks
In Arrow-Tip #43 I discussed how my newest client Gulf Coast Welding is using Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint to manage their shared documents, calendar and email. In this post, I’d like to tackle tasks which proposed a real dilemma when trying to decide between posting on Outlook or SharePoint.
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3rd Mar 2009 | Comments (4) | Arrow Tips, Front Page, SharePoint, Tasks
As promised, I wanted to give you all an update on how things are going with our Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint implementations at Gulf Coast Welding Corp. (a company that previously did not have email - see Arrow-Tip #42 Top 5 Things We Take for Granted About Outlook). Its taken me a while to get this post out to you because quite frankly, getting to know SharePoint a little better has forced me to think twice about some of my old tried and true practices. Intrigued? Read on to learn where we are drawing the line between managing Outlook tasks and meetings in Outlook versus SharePoint.
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26th Feb 2009 | Comments (2) | Arrow Tips, Calendar, Front Page, Inbox, SharePoint, Tasks
There are so many great posts regarding the Mom 2.0 Summit out there that I thought it might be useful to have an index. If you blogged about the conference and I haven’t included you here, please comment with the URL to your post and I’ll include it in the main body so that the link shows up on Technorati. Thanks again to Carrie Pacini, Marla Trevino, Laura Mayes, Amber Roussel and Monica Dana for putting together such a great conference - can’t wait for next year!
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23rd Feb 2009 | Comments (8) | Front Page, Social Media
(picture from Mom 2.0 Summit taken by Giovanni Gallucci)
What a day yesterday was! I started the morning off bright and early (7:00 AM!) by giving a short presentation on social media to a great networking group called the Houston Business Connection and then had the great privilege of attending the Mom 2.0 Summit where the real experts spoke about social media. It was such a wonderful and informative day that I thought Arrow-Tips readers might enjoy hearing about some of my key takeaways from both events.
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22nd Feb 2009 | Comments (2) | Front Page, Social Media
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