“Afternoons are the Bermuda Triangles of our days” Daniel Pink provides this great descriptive of sluggish afternoons in his provocatively titled LinkedIN article, You’re more likely to screw up in the afternoon. Here’s how to stop afternoon errors. How severe is the problem? “Across many domains, the trough represents a danger zone for productivity, ethics,…
Multitasking is not a skill to add to your resume, but rather a bad habit to put a stop to. –Larry Kim, Warning: Multitasking is Killing Your Brain Even the ancient Romans knew better: “A man who chases two rabbits catches none.” MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller points out that the human brain is designed to…
Addictive Obsession: Smartphones Are we obsessed with smartphones? Consider this: New Year’s Eve, 2017, 75 billion messages were sent on Facebook’s WhatsApp. That’s up 20% from 2016. It’s also about 1 message every 6 seconds. By all of the 300 million active users. All day long! When did they sing Auld Lang Syne? As…
“It’s not nice to fool the Internet Searcher!” Right up there with “fake news” as a current-event irritant, are “fake reviews.” No one appreciates being fooled with something fake, especially when decisions are hanging in the balance. So we appreciate the research of BrightLocal in publishing their annual Local Consumer Review Survey-2017. Published since 2010,…
BrightLocal a Good Source One of the sources that I have come to trust and appreciate is BrightLocal (BL). They do all things SEO and do it well. Among their services are tools for creating, updating and managing directory citations. Another is curating review sites. Recently they offered their 2017 list of 300+ Industry categorized…
This time it was Yahoo Search Did you know that Yahoo Directory closed? The directory closed over two years ago, December 31, 2014. Forgive me for being out of the loop on that one, but I was shocked! Really. The thing that didn’t surprise me was, “Who killed Yahoo?” It was Google, plain and simple.…
Vacation selfies excluded! Good can come out of what seems a very light-hearted practice – taking of selfies. In fact, seven identifiable legitimate business uses that exclude bragging to the office about your cool trip to Paris. Here they are in no particular order because, after all, this is about selfies. 1. Prove your identity…
When the average is 40 email signatures per day Are you an average office worker? “The average office worker sends 40 emails per day,” notes Lindsay Kolowich in her Hubspot article. She provides 9 ideas to consider in developing an email signature, because “that’s 40 opportunities to market yourself and your business in those individual…
Big on Kitchens – Small on parties “Let’s not have the Popovers over.” Ikea might know a thing or two about homes. At least they know about the things that we put into our homes – beds, couches, tables, chairs, curtains, pillows, plants – those things. They surveyed 12,000 residents of Berlin, London, Mumbai, Toronto,…
New pear-shaped atom suggest impossibility of time travel To paraphrase the poet, “O the simple joy of reading tech articles.” You will find in tech articles the delight of understatement and the amazement of scant humility. Take, for example, this headline: “New discoveries suggest the universe might not be what we thought.” What a nugget!…