Mar 13

Google Reader is Retiring; Here’s How to Download Your Data and Find Other RSS Tools

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I logged on to Google Reader to scan the articles I missed during the day and to my surprise, I got a nice little popup notification that Google was retiring Reader as of July 1, 2013. Continue reading

Nov 30

How to Scan 1000s of Headlines & Read 100s of Articles (and still stay productive)

If you follow me on Twitter or Google+, you know that I like to read and share articles…Lots of them.

What you might not know is that, for every article I tweet, I probably read another 10-15. The digital world adapts to new technology and makes wholesale changes literally every day and it is critical that anyone in a strategy role keep on top of the latest developments for the benefit of their clients and team. Thus, on any given day, I scan thousands of articles and read hundreds of them during the course of a week.

Of course, I have a day job. The catch-22 is that I don’t have a great deal of time to read during the work day, but my effectiveness is very much dependent on reading a bunch of articles. So how do I do it?

Time efficiency is the key and luckily there are a bunch of tools to help out. Here is my method… Continue reading

May 30

Yammer: The private social network every business should be using

Imagine if you could have a private social network that combined the best features of Twitter and Facebook to use as a communication tool at your business. Continue reading