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General Electric has created an online whiteboard designed for instant collaboration online with no registration required.

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage

10 Tips To Be More Productive At Work

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ince managers are usually responsible for getting work done through others, we often don’t recognize when inactivity, apathy, procrastination, and other non-performance viruses creep into our work habits. Our peers may be producing at high levels, but we find ourselves coasting. Sometimes, subordinates may even point this out to their manager.

So what’s going on when the manager is the poor performer?

When non-performance begins to creep into your daily standards, one of the following may be the culprit:

What's Happening When It's the Manager Who's Not Performing?

In summary....

* Write stuff down
* Quit reading e-mail and blogs
* Work on open source late at night with a beer on your desk
* Work disconnected (from Internet)
* Listen to music while you work
* Work long hours on Monday and Tuesday
* Avoid meetings at all costs
* Sleep
* Work on something you are passionate about

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Although they may be cheesy sometimes, motivational phrases can be inspiring, relevant and useful, too.

From Lifehacker.org

Do you ever get tired of calling customer service centers and getting the runaround or getting stuck trying to weave your way through the computerized phone system before getting to an actualy LIVE person? Well faint not!

Here is the link to "Customer Service Cheat Sheet"

Roy Peter Clark from Poynter Institute has posted up 50 tools that can help you when you do any kinds of writing. This is a extensive list of writing tools, but by no mean you need to apply all of them when you do any writing. There are the Writing Tool links:

Fifty (50!) Tools which can help you in Writing

It is a great found that the book How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School has a free online version! The book has some great research and concepts of learning, such as memory and its structure, analysis and reasoning, self-regulatory capabilities, community participation and so on.

How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but the most sure-fire just might be procrastination. Procrastinators sabotage themselves. They put obstacles in their own path. They actually choose paths that hurt their performance.

Click here to see "Procrastination: Ten Things To Know"

While streams of IT vendors are talking about low-cost PC solutions for the Indian market, the cheapest-ever laptop being designed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for the world’s poorest children, is already getting express backup from India.

American software maker Red Hat Inc signed up this week as ‘‘founding corporate member’’ of One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the MIT initiative that is driving the $100 laptop. As a result, Mumbai-based Red Hat India is now one of the global foundries where software to run the most affordable laptop is being written.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/060208/48/62f0b.html

Letter from Bill Gates

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