October 2011
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Food for Thought: Why You Should Question Your...
Organizational culture powerfully influences a company’s performance — or at least we say so. I often hear executives reassure me that projects will get done because “we have an execution culture,” or that customers will be well taken care of because “we have a culture where the customer comes first.” At the same time, culture is also one of the great...
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Student/User Profile: @MattMurphyMSWym:...
Matt Murphy was always one of our strong advocates, so we decided to interview him, to learn more of how he used and continues to use our services. Matt is an inspirational youth worker by day, and a super blogger/jokester by night! But ah- that didn’t stop him from obtaining his MSW from Adelphi University and a M.Div. from Denver Seminary.
How did Matt do all this?!? Haha, of course with...
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Productivity Blocker: Family Obligations
You can’t choose your family, but you can choose how you manage their needs when they interfere with your other tasks.
Whether you’re a student, freelancer, or even a homemaker- there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to satisfy the needs of your family, in addition to your professional needs and goals.
The demands of family have a way of robbing you from time,...
Procrastination: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly....
The Twitter #TaskChat on procrastination this past Tuesday, Sept 27th was a raging success! The party was jamming well past the 1-hour mark! Everyone’s still talking about what a blast they had while exchanging humorous tid-bits on instances they procrastinated, and why they did so.
Here are all the questions that were asked, followed by entertaining collections of groupings of...
Geek Rendezvous Game Night # 2
Attention old school gamers & geeks! We’re co-hosting our second Geek Rendezvous NYC meetup with Loosecubes next week. That’s Monday, October 10, 2011 7-9pm.
Come hang & win! Geeks who attended the last rendezvous and played charades had an absolute blast. Twelve of them actually *won* something, and the next winner could be YOU!
In it to win it
Strategizing is...
September 2011
21 posts
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Artificial Intelligence School Implements...
A team of students in the School of Computational Information Systems are thrilled to install and “get the ball rolling,” so to speak, with ProducteevEDU.
The institute is based in Col Fabriciano, Brazil, and the educational initiative provides free premium accounts for online task management to any individual associated with higher learning (students, faculty, staff).
The...
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3 Keys to Relationship #Productivity
The secret to flawlessly complete your tasks while in a clingy relationship, or even a clingy friendship, is to (secretly) treat it as a task!
Relationships are great for all the sunshine and butterflies that they offer. But in reality, they are quite up there on the Productivity Blocker Totem Pole. Have a look at the fun infographic below, and you will see that even long-distance relationships...
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Breaking: #gtd toddler spotted in Vancouver,...
Bobby Travis is a family man, a top notch blogger, and knows how to kick GTD’s ass.
In addition to potty training his his little one, he’s also taught her David Allen’s personal productivity techniques. Below are what I refer to as, The Four Stages of GTD Proficiency:
Game face initially settling upon the seemingly overwhelming methodology
So far so good coming to the...
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Staff Picks: Banish the Evil Forces and Get Things...
It’s easy to be productive! Check out the links below to learn simple ways of dealing with pressure, stress, procrastination, and other evils that are trying to steer you away from getting your stuff done!
Increase Productivity by Surfing the Web at Work
Mind Programming: A Tool for Self-Growth
7 Symptoms of Procrastination and How to Fight Them
How University Students can Remedy their...
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Producteev Helps you Make it Rain $$$ with your...
Things get pretty hectic when you’re a student that is struggling to balance course work on top of a side job. But with Producteev for Education, you’re in luck!
Step One: Create separate workspaces for your studies, and your job.
You must must MUST designate a workspace exclusively to your job. It’s up to you if you would like a separate workspace for each of your classes,...
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A Dating To-Do List: 12 Important Considerations...
Producteev can be used in all sorts of unexpected ways including - as soon to be described here - a to-do list on How to Flirt!
Don’t let your dating game lead to Game Over! Take it from Thomas Edwards, a successful, professional dating coach and satisfied Producteev user, and turn your night out into an awesome action plan.
Your absolute to-dos are simple: Compliment
Tease
Touch
In greater...
Twitter Chat Countdown Officially Begins!
Get your Twitter Chat on, and join us this September 27th at 3PM EST! The topic will be ‘procrastination.’ Be sure to include the hashtag: #TaskChat.
We will host a #TaskChat on the last Tuesday of every month- come party with us!
Special shout-out goes out to Bobby Travis, and English Atkins, for being super co-facilitators and superusers!
Best Part of #TCDisrupt: Producteev's Interactive...
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2011 was so awesome, we had to make a Swag Contest out of it!
(If you’re not familiar with Disrupt, it’s 3 day convention and contest for startups, hosted by TechCrunch.)
Innovative products include:
Shaker
If you’re a true geek you already know that the winner of the $50K and this Disrupt Battlefield competition was Shaker, an avatar-driven...
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How to slack, I mean COLLABORATE with fellow...
Now that shared workspaces are free for students, class collaboration on Producteev may be used to lighten your load this semester!
Having never been in a fraternity or sorority, it’s safe for me to serve as an expert in terms of Greek organizations, and an well known joke/fact about them is that members are in cohorts to cheat on exams. ;) More specifically, and to my shock and naïveté,...
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Two-Minute Tip: Separate Workspaces for Organizing...
Creating a separate workspace for each aspect of your life only takes a few secs, and helps out A LOT with organization & reducing clutter.
Why create extra workspaces? Why not list all tasks on one display?
If you plan to lightly use Producteev on one or two aspects of your life (shopping lists, errands) then placing all your tasks on one workspace would be okay. If you plan on using it for...
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College Life vs. Real Life. (Ding-ding-ding!)
Check out this infographic, and tell us- would you rather live in the college world, or the real world?
Producteev for Education finally launched! Premium service for anyone with a .edu e-mail address!
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Producteev for Instructors: All Work and YES Play!
The best thing about Producteev is that you can manage each of your course sections, as well as your personal life- all with one tool!
There is a delicate balance between juggling subjects, multiple students, and professional goals on top of personal matters. Summer is over, and it’s time to get back to the daily grind that is teaching. The workload seems to be ever-increasing with each...
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Getting Familiar with Producteev: FAQ List...
I. Login & Accounts
Open ID You can use facebook, google or yahoo connect to save time on your first, and subsequent, web app logins.
Be sure to set your account information password to access 3rd party applications (including the mac desktop app). The forgot password link is similar to resetting your password manually.
Forgot password Should you forget your password, you can generate a...
Exclusive Sneak Peek at Producteev for Windows!
We’re so excited over the new Producteev for Windows… we just HAD TO offer you a glimpse of what’s to come!
Let us know what you think of it so far!
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Student profile: @aaronrcouch highly effective &...
Aaron Couch is so good at time management that his skills get him dates! ;) More seriously, though, he is a passionate Veterinary Techonology student, and he recently shared a video of a Horseback Rider Delivering Medicine in a Hurricane. If you watch it, it may remind you of a scene from True Grit.
Like many Producteev students, he applies proven methodologies to tackle his to-do list. The...
