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Sometime late last year, I caught wind of an email productivity tool that was in development. That product, AwayFind promised to help people stop checking email.
Since then, I’ve gotten to know the founder and CEO, Jared Goralnick who has been approaching the product with a very head down, listening approach. I have used AwayFind for some months now, providing feedback and soliciting advice from Jared on the best ways to use the tool.
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I was talking to someone recently who just took a new job at a small web-company. She has been a Windows user all her life but she asked me what she should get in her new job. They were buying her a new computer.
Naturally, I suggested the new Macbook that Apple announced yesterday. The same thing occurred when my dad took a new job with a non-profit and considered getting a Mac, but it was nixed due to concerns over business application and utility.
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If you keep all your travel arrangements in Tripit, you can of course use it from the web or mobile device like a Blackberry or Treo, but you can also pull all your travel arrangements directly into iCal, Google Calendar, Outlook or any calendar you use that supports the ICS data format (almost all do).
Here’s a look at what my calendar looks like for August as I’ve subscribed to my Tripit Calendar.
Fun show tonight.
Jared Goralnick, the CEO of AwayFind joins guest co-host Jimmy Gardner, joined us to talk about email management and productivity much like I’ve been talking about in my Email Ninjahood series.
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It’s Saturday night and that means The Aaron Brazell Show is back. Last week, there were fireworks but tonight… there just might be more fireworks.
With Shel Israel and Robert Scoble interviewing Tim Ferris of the 4 Hour Work Week a few weeks ago, and my own quest for email ninjahood, I wanted to bring on Jared Goralnick of AwayFind to talk about productivity.
Before we got a little distracted by other things, we began a series on email ninjahood. Because email bandwidth continues to be a problem for many people with the ubiquity of Blackberries, smartphones and email anywhere you turn.
The recommendations I’m offering in this series work for me but they may not work for everyone. There are lots of productivity wizards out there able to recommend different approaches. Find what works for you and run with it.
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I’m beginning a short series here that, on one hand, I hope to use to educate and on the other hand I hope to expose myself and the flaws I have in how I deal with email.
Email quite simply is a problem. Some people are blessed to have little email traffic so they squander that luxury by creating email by sending chain letters or otherwise. I however, have a much bigger, and much more deadly problem.
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A friend of mine just landed a job. Congratulations to her as the job market is shriveling up. I won’t mention her name for fear it could cause complications at her new job but many of you know her.
She hasn’t worked for a company in 17 years, give or take, and has lived quite successfully as a consultant. However, she became enamored by the possibility of helping companies directly in her line of expertise.
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Analizamos algunas herramientas para controlar la sobrecarga informativa a la que estamos expuestos en Internet, permitiéndonos guardar artículos de interés para su eventual consumo en nuestro navegador o celular.
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After Jason Calacanis wrote this about saving money with your startup, I thought I would republish something I wrote on Startup Spark about a year ago. It is workspace focused but it is funny how many of the things he says match up. Enjoy…
10 Ways to Make your workspace more productive
I was motivated by Anne [...]
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Hello all, just wanted to let you know that I have been offered an opportunity to write for a great blog on the B5 Media Network.
The blog is called Startup Spark and is similar to Venture Files but is a broader version on all types of entrepreneurship.
I invite you to check it out and subscribe. [...]
I just started using a new bookmarking tool called Furl that is a compliment to Del.icio.us.
It is located at www.furl.net
Many of you might be familiar with it and see the “F” icon in some blog badges.
It’s quite versatile and useful, although it’s not perfect. I see a lot of possibilities for this kind of tool. [...]
This weekend, b5media operations are taking a slight respite for Christmas. While this means I’m off, I can never truly be “off”. However, I’m going to be off as much as possible and don’t want to be tied to my Blackberry for the holidays. Especially since ALL of my email comes in on it. I [...]
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I love Skype. I hate Outlook. I love Skylook.
I have to use Outlook because I get the crazy work flow and I connect to an exchange server.
I wasn’t impressed with Skylook 1.0
MIchael Arrington at TechCrunch reviewed it a few days ago (Skype + Outlook = Skylook) so I thought I would check it out again [...]
The new search engine Rollyo is an interesting approach to search engines. The concept is to create or “roll” your own.
For those of us who write on Venture Capital, David Hornik who writes VentureBlog has created one for Venture Capital.
I am going to add one to Venture Files. Here is more on the search he [...]
