Wow – what an amazing conference! Congratulations to Laura Mayes, Carrie Pacini, Marla Trevino, the ladies from MMI including Amanda Hansen, Melissa Campbell, Lauren McKechnie, Maggie McDonald and the rest of the Mom 2.0 Summit crew! I’ll be blogging about my Mom 2.0 experience in a separate post, but in the mean time please see below links to other Mom 2.0 posts and don’t forget to send me a link to your post so I can include it. Read More
There is a reason that although I first promised a blog post on using SharePoint to display your company KPI dashboard back in late June, I’m just now getting started on it. Turns out, its a much more complicated and multi-step process than I first expected. So in attempt not to overwhelm both you in reading a ridiculously long post and me in creating one, I’ll be posting the following Arrow-Tips and How Tos throughout November: Read More
Yesterday morning I gave a presentation (click here to view the presentation on slideshare) to parents from Yorkshire Academy regarding the benefits of social media as well as issues to watch out for. My presentation focused mainly on Facebook, however, yesterday evening I had the good fortune to attend another presentation sponsored by YPO on social media given by Michelle Cullison of Daystar Digital Development. Michelle’s focus was mainly on My Space, but she also discussed other areas of social media – we covered many of the same things, but I got a deeper level of insight from her presentation. Best take away: Google your children on a regular basis so you can see all the things they are doing as opposed to just the ones you know about. You might also want to check out Michelle’s Lost In MySpace web site.
Tomorrow morning I will be giving a free seminar on Facebook and other social media from a parent’s perspective. We will discuss the positive aspects of Facebook as a communication and marketing tool along with what to watch out for as your children start to participate in social media. I will be offering some suggestions for how to make social media a positive experience for your children rather than a potential nightmare for both of you. Please feel free to join us tomorrow from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM at the Yorkshire Academy campus 14120 Memorial Drive (Houston 77079).
Do you have multiple email/calendar profiles? If so, you may be interested in this quick solution I’ve come up with for synchronizing my calendars and it will even work with gmail. Read More
On Sunday I decided I’d finally had enough of my 2nd Blackberry (8830 World Edition) that’s track ball kept sticking and that kept asking me to “say a comand” when the battery cover wasn’t falling off. Obviously I had issues with the 8830, but I have to say that I love love love the Tour. The display rocks, I can now take pictures and videos and so far it hasn’t asked me to order it around once.
Normally, I keep my technology until people start making fun of me (my car is 13 years old) so for me to make a change after only 18 months is a pretty big deal. But with the great discount and rebate (upgrade cost $100), the change was definitely worth it. So, if you’re about ready to jump up and down on your 8830, check out the Tour!
Feel free to comment on your Blackberry model likes and dislikes – always interesting to hear about other experiences.
OK, so a week turned into two months, but better late than never – here is my post on creating a Quotation File Information Sheet. What – doesn’t sound very glamorous to you? How could having key proposal information neetly organized and readily available not interest you? Ok, how about not having to re-invent the wheel each time you put together a proposal? Still not excited? What about having a way to systematically evaluate which deals you tend to win and tend to be most profitable? If that’s not enough then I give up – skip to the next post, but if you are intrigued, please read on…
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.
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.
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
