For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
Screenshot by Rick BroidaWorkFlowy for iOS
They don't teach organization at business school, yet it's as vital to business success as any other skill. Take it from someone who's chronically disorganized.
Or was, until WorkFlowy came along. This browser-based tool provides the simplest possible structure for organizing your tasks and ideas, yet once you start using it, it's impossible to live without.
For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
I routinely receive emails from PR reps who want me to write about various products and services.
What most of them don't know is that I can see them. Specifically, I can see their social-network profile pictures.
For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
HelloSign for iOS.
We live in an increasingly paperless world, but just try to get someone's signature without one or more sheets of letter-size stock. Whether you need to collect signatures or fork over yours, it usually means dealing with printed matter.
Or maybe not, if you sign up for HelloSign. This service and its companion app for iOS make it surprisingly easy to sign and send documents electronically. Best of all, it's free.
For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
Are you bad at remembering names?
Most people are. And yet it's a business skill that's vital to master. People like hearing their name, and the more someone likes you, the more likely they are to do business with you.
So, how can you get better at remembering the people you just met? Motivational speaker Michael Angelo Caruso offers five suggestions in "How to remember names." Here's an excerpt:
For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
For anyone still using the old service (and as of July of last year, some 360 million users were signing into their accounts every month), this undoubtedly raises some questions -- not the least of which is, "What's going to happen to my old account?"
As of right now, you can still sign into your Microsoft Hotmail, MSN, and Windows Live accounts. Eventually, however, Microsoft will shut them down -- all the more reason to make the move to Outlook.com right now.
For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
It's the rare new business that wouldn't benefit from a home on the Web. Quite the opposite: If someone goes looking for a business like yours and doesn't find at least a simple Web site for it, well, that's a customer who's probably going to a competitor.
You might think that setting up shop online costs an arm and a leg, but it's actually one of the most affordable aspects of running a business. In fact, sometimes it doesn't even cost a dime.
For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about all manner of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad under his pillow. More by Rick Broida
Love 'em or hate 'em, conference calls are a part of business life.
They can also be a hassle to set up, especially if you're on the go. Suppose you're sitting in a hotel room, for example, and you need to get everyone from sales on the phone pronto. Are you really supposed to slog through a Web-based conferencing tool just to arrange the call?
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