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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Changing resistance into understanding

30-Sep-05

In comments about her book They Just Don’t Get It! Changing resistance into understanding, author Leslie Yerkes of Catalyst Consulting Group wrote the following:
I discovered five behaviors for turning resistance into understanding. The behaviors are like the ‘aikido’ of communication. It is so simple but these insights run counter to what has been taught [...]

They just don’t get it: Authors sue Google over Google Print

21-Sep-05

If you’ve not heard of it, Google Print is scanning in the contents of books to make them searchable. That is a key phrase, “make them searchable.” Google Print does not make the whole book available, just a “snippet” of the text based on the search term.
My first thought was, “Finally, now I can [...]

iPod Nano - cool, but….

17-Sep-05

I got my hands on an iPod Nano this weekend. It’s my brother’s, and I’ve been helping him try to get it up and running on an older Windows 2000 machine. To say that it has been a pain in the ass would be an understatement; it’s been a nightmare. I don’t [...]

Getting Things Done Outlook Add-in Version 2.1

13-Sep-05

If you are a user of the Getting Things Done Outlook Add-in, I recommend updating to Version 2.1, released on 25 August. Some of the features/bug fixes mentioned on the web site include:

Attach multiple Emails to a single task
Processing] Process a Post Item
Add Next Action Button on Appointment/Task that will complete and create new [...]

Never underestimate the importance of leadership

07-Sep-05

Usually when I make one of my (all too frequent) stops at a fast food place and actually go in, I don’t really pay too much attention to what goes on behind the counter. Like many things I experience day to day, I usually just assume that things will work. On one recent [...]

Top-down vs. Bottom-up KM: Insights from the Katrina response

06-Sep-05

Watching, listening to, and reading about the response to Hurricane Katrina I have noticed that, in general, the “official” response of government has been almost universally denounced as slow and insufficient while the “un-official” responses of individuals and various organizations have been praised as rapid and, at times, heroic.
Though there is still a lot [...]

Tools - Google Desktop

01-Sep-05

I finally got around to installing Google Desktop on my Windows laptop (now that I’m no longer constrained by a ruthless SysAdmin).  My initial impression:  I love it.I tried out each of the modes available (Sidebar, Deskbar, and Floating Deskbar), and found that the plain old Deskbar works best for how I use it.  It just sits on [...]

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