Monthly Archives: January 2010

A Boy and His Inbaskets

By Mitch | Published: 2010/01/29
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. As it should be obvious by now, I am Manning’s productivity nerd. I am a lay member of the cult of Getting Things Done. I wanted to offer up a brief observation from my day-to-day work. Like the GTD project planning model, the GTD system consists [...]
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The iPad: What Will It Mean to Us?

By Mitch | Published: 2010/01/28
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. A couple exciting things happened yesterday. Nearly all my attention was focused on the launch of the new First Vehicle Services website. Meanwhile the rest of the world was focused on this. Steve Jobs said that it is “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary [...]
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Research: NASA’s Twitter Strategy

By Mitch | Published: 2010/01/18
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. Last week we had a conference call with a client, one of the largest professional associations in the world. Twitter came up a few times and I couldn’t help be think of one of my favorite Twitter publishers, NASA. This led me to do [...]
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DIY Website

By Mitch | Published: 2010/01/13
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog I am currently reading Ashley Friedlein’s book, Web Project Management .  While not exactly up to the project management standards of the PMBOK, the book presents a complete web project management method. I will post a review once I finish reading and have [...]
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How I Make Coffee: Why I Do What I Do

By Mitch | Published: 2010/01/07
This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. I was a non-coffee drinker not too long ago. Then one day, in the middle of an intense project, we landed another intense job with a very short turn around. Conference calls with Europe before sunrise, some late nights, and a lot of stress led to my [...]
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