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Comment on QuarkBase: Everything you ever wanted to know about a website… by Keys to your Domain » The Piano Inside My Brain

Keys to your Domain » The Piano Inside My Brain — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:33:43 +0000

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Comment on Home Improvement List of Death - Progress Report by Maria

Maria — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:16:21 +0000

Wow, I am super impressed. But please don’t allow Danielle to kick the wall again. Good luck with the grill!

Comment on Home Improvement List of Death - Progress Report by Howard Yermish

Howard Yermish — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:12:36 +0000

And you know that I need my coffee! One can only have so many honey-do lists.

Comment on Home Improvement List of Death - Progress Report by Rosemarie Pena

Rosemarie Pena — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:30 +0000

So when you’re done can you come to my place? I make great coffee!

Comment on Home Improvement List of Death by Home Improvement List of Death - Progress Report » The Piano Inside My Brain

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:20:25 +0000

[...] than a week before my wife gets back from Los Angeles, I’ve made significant progress on the Home Improvement List of Death. Let’s review what has been [...]

Comment on Declaring Email Bankruptcy by The Official SocialShake Blog

The Official SocialShake Blog — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:27:29 +0000

Perfecting the next email…

Today we are faced with many problems associated with using email. Tons of users’ mailboxes are constantly overflowing with mail. Email needs to be addressed to solve many issues that we are faced. SocialShake.com has been working on many issues in…

Comment on Outlook or Gmail - Lifehacker Faceoff by How do we know

How do we know — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:16:57 +0000

Your blog is definitely my find for the day. Got here through an ittoolbox blog.

Comment on Good experience with CPK by How do we know

How do we know — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:01:29 +0000

Cool!! This IS good.

Comment on Tour de France Starts Today by Carambs

Carambs — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:31:06 +0000

Very well said.

Comment on Choose the right messaging medium by Take Fridays off from Email » The Piano Inside My Brain

Take Fridays off from Email » The Piano Inside My Brain — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:01:48 +0000

[...] Choose the right messaging medium [...]

Comment on Download Firefox 3 on June 17, 2008 by Dad

Dad — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:14:08 +0000

I did download it … It’s fast but doesn’t do iWeb sites very well. Even less works than Firefox 2.0 … Borders and Drop Shadows don’t make it and it looks like comments of blog pages have an error.

Comment on Blogging for Business Presentation by Dennis Stevenson

Dennis Stevenson — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:53:50 +0000

Howard. Great speech. I’m already a blogger and thought it was a great listen. In fact my danger is signing up to write too many blogs! I enjoy writing, so that’s a soft spot that I have to protect.

Dennis

Comment on Blogging for Business Presentation by Laura

Laura — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:37:29 +0000

Bravo on an excellent presentation!

So happy to learn that a Twitter friend is an oenophile as well as an Ogden Nash aficionado! (These are but two of my own passions!)

Who da thunk it?

People connect on so many little things…as well as the more profound ones. I think your speech underscores that quite brilliantly. Kudos!

Comment on iPhone Predictions Scorecard by Dad

Dad — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:25:33 +0000

H: Keep your day job and don’t go into handicapping horses or stuff … I suspect I will get my iPhone 2.0 later this summer along with the new iMac!

Comment on Invitations to Twine Private Beta by @ronnieledesma

@ronnieledesma — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:07:33 +0000

Woohoo! Glad you’re in a sharing mood, thanks! If you have one to share, I’d love to give it a go.

@ronnieledesma

Comment on Invitations to Twine Private Beta by Vizion Quest

Vizion Quest — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:35:52 +0000

Do you happen to have any Twine invites left? Thanks!

Comment on Make big promises; overdeliver by Dennis Stevenson

Dennis Stevenson — Wed, 21 May 2008 07:12:45 +0000

Howard,

Timely post. Trust is up for me today, and i just published on that topic as well…. Building trust builds success http://snurl.com/29vw5

It’s a big issue that I manage very carefully as I have to lead outsourcing teams. Lack of trust can be a kiss of death from a success perspective. Trust needs to be actively cultivated from multiple perspectives. It can’t ever be assumed as a constant in business.

Dennis

Comment on My Technology is Conspiring Against Me by Rosemarie Pena

Rosemarie Pena — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:51:51 +0000

Oh, no! Sounds pretty rough.I’ve been there. I hope your daughter’s party turned out well. Maybe I should keep my Voyager after all. (smile)

Comment on Add Old Email Addresses to your LinkedIn Profile by Laura Bergells

Laura Bergells — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:03:13 +0000

Jolly good tip! Never thought of that! Thanks!

Comment on BrightKite.com Private Beta by Wayne Fletcher

Wayne Fletcher — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:28:21 +0000

I’m probably too late but anyway…

Comment on Jott to Self: Productivity by The Two-Week Trial » The Piano Inside My Brain

The Two-Week Trial » The Piano Inside My Brain — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:29:33 +0000

[...] example, I tried Jott and I use it almost every day for something. The service actually makes things more convenient for [...]

Comment on Invitation to GrandCentral by Howard Yermish

Howard Yermish — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:13:54 +0000

I wish that I could help you out. Apparently, everyone’s invitations have been turned off for GrandCentral.

There is a post in the Google Groups about it here.

You may just want to go to the homepage of GrandCentral and reserve a number.

You may want to try a SkypeIn number, this way your friends can still make a local call and I believe that you can have it forward to your phone or to voicemail.
http://www.skype.com/allfeatures/callforwarding/

Comment on Invitation to GrandCentral by Keoki

Keoki — Fri, 09 May 2008 23:46:32 +0000

Can You please send me an invite? My email is [...]. I would like to use it while I do my tour of duty to keep in touch with family and friends while in Iraq. Thanks!. I have been looking for awhile and I am due to deploy in a couple of weeks.

Comment on Broad Street Run by Ira / Dad

Ira / Dad — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:08:09 +0000

Congratulations! You finished WITH DIGNITY (as we like to say) … OK, so get back on the bike … I’m leading a 60 mile C+/B ride on the 18th … Lots more this summer.

Comment on iPhone Predictions by Rosemarie Pena

Rosemarie Pena — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:29:26 +0000

Rub it in! Guess I need to consider whether I want to hand my Voyager over to my daughter! :p

Comment on Temporary Headline by Steven L. Lubetkin

Steven L. Lubetkin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:05:00 +0000

Reminds me of the court story they did years ago. After weeks of blistering news coverage of Municipal Court Judge Arthur Kaffirsen for his business relationships, some green reporter was sent to cover a routine court hearing, didn’t get the judge’s name, so they inserted placeholder “Judge Ibamowitz YackYack” until reporter could go back and get judge’s name. Guess which judge it was?

Comment on Conversations or Selling by Howard Yermish

Howard Yermish — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:31:12 +0000

Definitely a change in the way to approach traditional sales. Farming vs. Hunting. By farming, we wait for the harvest, and it is bigger than one slow-flying duck.

Comment on Conversations or Selling by Dennis Stevenson

Dennis Stevenson — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:37:40 +0000

In the “job world” where people are trying to get new jobs, the rule of thumb is tht the first person to bring up salary gets the worse end of the deal. Somehow initiating the close of the txn is a liability.

Howard, I think you are onto the same kind of thing here. The first person to ask to make a transaction is the one most liable to end the relationship - and all hope of future transactions. Quite a catch 22, no?

I think we are seeing something sort of new (although, if I researched, it might well be ancient too) - Emergent Transactions. Where the transaction come out of the relationship as almost a relationship artifact. That its the emergent property of the transaction in the context of the relationship.

Make Sense?

Dennis

Comment on Common Craft video about Google Apps + Salesforce.com by Greg

Greg — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:46:08 +0000

salesforce also did a demo video that goes into a little bit more depth. .just an fyi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-o0QmS5TzM

Comment on Yikes! WordPress.com Banned by Howard Yermish

Howard Yermish — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:50:32 +0000

I certainly do like your point; it is a hard balance. I hate to see all of WP blocked because of one person. It’s a shame our world even has to have this conversation. Open communication is a good thing, but scary for large institutions that want to try to control conversations.

Comment on Yikes! WordPress.com Banned by Lorelle

Lorelle — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:14:20 +0000

I believe that the laws people live within have more controls over free speech than blog hosting services. And self-hosting services also have their EULA and TOS that may also restrict the topics they will allow on their service. So such a sweeping assumption puts blame in the wrong place.

Currently, WordPress.com has NOT responded to change their methodology nor close any blog on their free blog hosting service due to court action on any issue deemed restrictive of free speech, which is why WordPress.com was banned for almost eight months in Turkey because they didn’t give in nor comply with the court edict to remove a blogger the Turkey governments and courts decided was a political nightmare. Other blog services might have capitulated in the same situation.

In many people’s eyes, this makes having your blog on WordPress.com safer than elsewhere, because the company believes first in freedom of speech in such situations.

Posting things that aren’t nice to other humans isn’t the issue. Posting things that governments don’t like gets you in more trouble.

Comment on Is your website down for everybody, or is it just you? by World Wide Web Communications Blog

World Wide Web Communications Blog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:37:26 +0000

Is your website down or is it just you?…

Seriously simple web application downforeveryoneorjustme.com answers the question:
“Is my website actually down or is there a problem with my connection to the Internet.”
If you are having a problem accessing your own site, this is a good p…

Comment on Dream of an Empty Inbox by Dennis Stevenson

Dennis Stevenson — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:46:36 +0000

Howard,

This is an interesting topic (because everyone labors under the rule of e-mail). Personally, I create a quarterly .pst file and have a folder for each month. All my sent and received mail goes there monthly. It’s nice to have searchability on all the different posts, and I’ve gone back surprisingly frequently to figure something out or hold someone accountable. Personally I get lost in complex nested directory structures (or have e-mails that could/should go in multple folders.

Luis Suarez has a very interesting blog series on his efforts to cut out e-mail at work. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/km/elsua/archives/giving-up-on-work-email-status-report-on-week-9-23748

I also did a scientific investigation of my received e-mail. Was surprised by the results. I use(d) e-mail as a dialog tool… which is not really a good use. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/cio/original-thinking/archives/whats-in-my-inbox-21285

Dennis

Comment on Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare by Howard Yermish

Howard Yermish — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:12:24 +0000

Just FYI, I was approved in less than 6 hours for this, so if you are running a blog, it is worth checking out. I’ll have to troubleshoot the widget with them and keep you posted.

Comment on Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare by Tom Panelas

Tom Panelas — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:21:10 +0000

Hi. I’m not sure why the iframe of the Britannica widget is causing trouble, but I will ask our widget mavens look at it. In the meantime, please feel free to e-mail me with a description of what happened.

Thanks,
Tom Panelas
for Britannica

Comment on RSS Explained by World Wide Web Communications Blog

World Wide Web Communications Blog — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:38:18 +0000

RSS Explained…

RSS = Really Simple Syndication
For most people, it’s not so simple. So, let’s try to resolve this.
Let’s say you are obsessed with the news, so everyday you log on to a bunch of different news sites to see what is new and interesting…

Comment on Dream of an Empty Inbox by Amir

Amir — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:29:25 +0000

After an extensive research of this very same question: what’s the email still doing in your inbox?, I found out that people simple didn’t know what else to do with the email! Sounds silly for people with organized inboxes, but a lot of people simply don’t know how to keep things organized. And because no one can see the “clutter” or “mess” they aren’t worried about it.
An outlook Add-On called MoveIT from http://www.bluelightit.com/MoveIt makes it very easy to organize your inbox and keep it organized. It literally frees up times instantly, and doesn’t compromise the way you work with your emails. Try it and let me know what you think. In my blog emailoverloaded.wordpress.com I talk about the problems of email in the workplace and its effect on productivity.

Comment on Invitation to GrandCentral by The Piano Inside My Brain / GrandCentral goes dark without notice

The Piano Inside My Brain / GrandCentral goes dark without notice — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:27:32 +0000

[...] will complain about this violently should remember… FREE and BETA do not mean RELIABLE. Yes, GrandCentral hopes to be a phone company someday. But as someone who has grown up with technology for my entire life, I know what to ultimately [...]

Comment on WWWC Does Blogging by World Wide Web Communications Blog

World Wide Web Communications Blog — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:51:24 +0000

StartupNation - Blogging for your Business…

Ryan Allis from StartupNation.com brings us this post about blogging for your business:
The importance of blogging for your business
He points out some of the search engine optimization advantages to blogs. One thing that I recommend is that you can us…

Comment on Invitation to GrandCentral by Howard Yermish

Howard Yermish — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:00:18 +0000

Looks like I’m out of invitations. You should be able to go here and sign up: http://www.grandcentral.com/home/reserve

Comment on Invitation to GrandCentral by Bevin

Bevin — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:32:08 +0000

My only phone number is a mobile phone number, and apparently whoever had my number before me had very bad credit and a habit of giving the number to everyone and everything. Although I remind unwanted callers that I’m on the national “Do Not Call” registry, they insist that if a number has done business with them in the past, they’re entitled to call it. When I read the descriptions of the screening and blocking features available through GrandCentral, I got very excited until I found out that I have to have an invitation from a current user. Can you please help me out?

Comment on Jott to Self: Productivity by Rosemarie Pena

Rosemarie Pena — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:49:24 +0000

Great Article. Looks like I need this…especially since I am the queen of cut and paste.

Comment on WWWC Does Blogging by Bob Savar

Bob Savar — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:04:39 +0000

Your insights on blogging and SEO are greatly appreciated. I look forward to you writing more posts in our company’s blog.

Comment on Invitation to GrandCentral by Ebay to Google… Skype + GrandCentral x Android = :-) | The Piano Inside My Brain

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:10:36 +0000

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Comment on Runner’s High - Science Proves It by Ira

Ira — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:26:02 +0000

It’s all my fault. I made him do it.

Comment on Jott to Self: Productivity by Linda

Linda — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:22:51 +0000

Try Jott with other apps such as Twitter, Vitalist, or Remember the Milk. Jott’s API works with these apps and are very awesome combos! Probably the best GTD idea’s I’ve seen all year. gotta love it while driving eh?!